Leawood City Council Approves $765M Mixed-Use Development Led by VanTrust Real Estate

The Leawood City Council approved a rezoning request and preliminary plans for the Hallbrook North development. Photo courtesy of the City of Leawood.

Posted October 14, 2025

The Leawood City Council voted to approve a mixed-use rezoning for Hallbrook North, a $765 million development that could be the next headquarters for a major Kansas City company.

Hallbrook North is being developed by VanTrust Real Estate LLC and is located north of College Boulevard and west of State Line Road. Preliminary plans for the development indicate that it will comprise 11 buildings, covering a total of 1,482,000 square feet of construction area on 34.2 net acres.

Additionally, the development could be the next headquarters for Kansas City-based insurance company Lockton. While Lockton has not formally announced its plans to move into the development, Chief Marketing Officer for Lockton, Julie Gibson, attended the meeting to incentivise the councilmembers’ decision.

“The decision that you’re considering tonight really is getting us one step closer to making that long-term decision in our next chapter of growth,” Gibson said.

Lockton is currently headquartered in the Country Club Plaza.

According to city documents, the Hallbrook North development would include the following:

  • 857,000 sq ft. of office space
  • 65,000 sq ft. hotel with 145 rooms, plus a 10,000 sq ft. event center and related hotel amenities
  • 499,000 sq ft. of residential with 400 dwelling units, for a residential density of 11.8 dwelling units per acre (DU/acre)
  • 6,000 sq ft. retreat center
  • 14,000 sq ft. daycare center
  • 16,000 sq ft. of retail
  • a ten-foot-wide trail connection to Leawood City Park.

VanTrust hopes to build Hallbrook North in two construction phases. The initial phases would include the main 444,000-square-foot headquarters office building, a retreat center, hotel, the first multi-family residential lot, childcare facilities, retail space, and a connection to City Park and the Leawood Dog Park.

The next phase would include a 258,000-square-foot headquarters expansion, a 155,000-square-foot office building space and the second multi-family residential lot.

The Hallbrook North development has Burns & McDonnell listed as the architect and general contractor, Phelps Engineering Inc. as the civil engineer, BBN Architects Inc. as the landscape architect and Merge Midwest Engineering as the traffic engineer, according to city documents.

The developer is also seeking an $88.7 million incentive package for the development that would create a TIF district. The Leawood Planning Commission is scheduled to review the TIF distinct plans on Oct. 28.