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Majority Owner of Country Club Plaza Seeks New Sales Tax

KANSAS CITY-Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership wants a half-cent

By Judie Burkhalter | Updated on January 11, 2001

KANSAS CITY-Making a purchase at the Country Club Plaza could soon be a little more expensive. A special half-cent sales tax is being sought to help finance the area’s privately owned parking facilities.

Parking is free on the upscale shopping district, which was one of the country’s first outdoor shopping areas to accommodate automobiles as well as pedestrians. However, Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership, owner of the Country Club Plaza, is set to ask city, county and state officials to create a taxing district that would allow the company to collect the half-cent sales tax for up to 20 years.

The company wants to use the funds to pay for a $14-million parking structure on the southeast corner of 47th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and for improvements to at least eight other parking garages.

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