After nearly seven years without a grocery store, there’s a plan to bring a new one back to Merriam on a prominent corner on Shawnee Mission Parkway.
Overland Park-based Drake Development, the same entity behind the Merriam Grand Station project, wants to bring a grocery store to a new development across Shawnee Mission Parkway on the former site of the now-shuttered Antioch Library.
Drake officials submitted a redevelopment plan to the city on Wednesday that proposes a 12,500-square-foot grocery store on the former library site at 8800 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., which the city now owns…