After years of planning, a mainstay McDonald’s near a busy Kansas City corner is getting a full-works renovation: complete demolition, a new restaurant building with a modern facade, improved landscaping — and a double drive-thru design, with two lanes that merge, to more efficiently move cars.
But the revamped restaurant didn’t come without a fight.
In its aim to rebuild and improve its outdated restaurant, the fast food giant’s real estate arm took the city to court — and won — to help bypass regulations along what is now the streetcar line that aim to make the Main Street corridor more walkable…