Interstate 670 through downtown Kansas City will close later this year as construction on the future park to be built on top of it begins.
The city announced in a news release that construction will soon begin on the Roy Blunt Luminary Park project, which would place a new downtown destination park over the interstate between Wyandotte Street and Grand Boulevard.
Years in the making, the first phase of construction will include building about half of the tunnel along I-670 and adding the first block of the park between Wyandotte Street and Baltimore Avenue, near the convention center, alongside infrastructure improvements…