Galleria 115 is a planned, 548-unit luxury, mixed-use community that has been seen as an important first step to welcoming more night life and pedestrians to the College Boulevard corridor.

The idea to bring drive-thru businesses to the complex was first presented to the Overland Park City Council in October 2018.

At that time, some city officials and councilmembers expressed their reservations for allowing such fast food establishments into the project’s plan.

Mayor Carl Gerlach said he found the idea of a drive-thru restaurant to be a let-down as “entertainment and sit-down restaurants were much more exciting.”

Back then, developer Ken Block argued that though a drive-thru restaurant would not be the catalyst to bringing night life to the area, they were still necessary to include in the overall plan.

“It’s out of my realm of thinking that some other restaurants would fit this site,” Block said. “You can’t put seven sit-down restaurants next to each other. They cannibalize each other.”

After much discussion between Block and the City, the council ultimately chose to approve the initial addition of the drive-thrus in a 9-2 vote in November 2018.

Now, the city council will be presented with the final plans for the a Chick-fil-A in the upcoming months.

With the new Chick-fil-A, the Galleria 115 project will include the addition of 42 parking spaces to the north of the proposed restaurant and a double lane drive-thru that will wrap around the building.

Additionally, the project will require the installation of a traffic signal and both right-turn and left-turn lanes at 113th Street and Nall Avenue in order to mitigate possible traffic congestion.