Overland Park Blocked By Summer Build

Construction season impacts the Golden Ghetto . . . Here's a glimpse at local biz suffering amid the constant effort to maintain Johnson County suburbs . . .

The closures aim to facilitate efforts to reconstruct, widen and add toll lanes along a stretch of U.S. Highway 69 as part of the ongoing 69Express project.

Signs and traffic cones have continued to pop where the highway intersects with 119th Street since then, with more closures taking effect this week.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

How will 119th Street interchange closure impact businesses?

119th Street near U.S. Highway 69 will fully close for two months., and i's already impacting some businesses at the nearby Highland Plaza shopping center.