After the closure of Toni’s Italian Restaurant’s Olathe location last year, city planning documents show the restaurant’s former building will soon be demolished alongside a handful of other buildings, as the city gears up for an ambitious overhaul of East Santa Fe Street.
In order to make improvements on Santa Fe from Ridgeview Road to Mur-Len Road, Olathe had to acquire land and purchase properties, valued around $22 million. Now, the city readies to tear the buildings down, and is prepared to enter an agreement with a Kansas City demolition company to do the work.
A contractor will tear down buildings, disconnect and cap utilities between the 1800 and 1900 blocks of Santa Fe, and several other addresses nearby, according to a construction agreement approved by the Olathe City Council on Tuesday…