Work on the long-stalled Mission Gateway project has started, but developer Tom Valenti of Cameron Group LLC wants to delay when a community improvement district will start collecting sales tax.
Valenti doesn’t anticipate construction to be completed until January, so he wants the CID to start collecting an extra 1 percent sales tax — which offsets construction costs — July 1, 2020 to track with “the beginning of retail activity,” the Shawnee Mission Post reports. When the CID was approved…
