Creekside at I-435 and Highway 45 in Parkville, Missouri, is a 300-plus-acre mixed-use project (often cited as about 337 acres) led by local developer Brian Mertz,
Creekside at I-435 and Highway 45 in Parkville, Missouri, is a 300-plus-acre mixed-use project (often cited as about 337 acres) led by local developer Brian Mertz , not a national homebuilder or REIT. Mertz owns Parkville Development and related LLCs (Parkville Development 50, 70, 140, 38, etc.) plus PC Homes LLC. He is a University of Kansas accounting and business graduate, a CPA, a longtime Platte County resident, former CFO at S&T Enterprises, and later a Park University trustee and Parkville EDC board member. He has said the baseball-complex idea came from a trip with his son: why didn’t the Northland have a destination like that? Cost estimates have moved from roughly $300–$335 million at approval toward $350–$380 million as phases added on. The land had been annexed into Parkville around 2000 and sat mostly empty after an earlier scheme failed in the 2008 downturn. The city ended up owning large tracts and was making about $300,000 a year in Neighborhood Improvement Dist...
