Landplan Engineering, P. A.

Kanza Business & Technology Park

Topeka, Kansas

The Kanza Business & Technology Park is a 252-acre site that previously housed the Topeka State Hospital. Landplan Engineering, in association with KS Commercial Real Estates Services, was retained in 1999 to prepare a master land use plan for the future adaptive reuse of the site.

The project team prepared a comprehensive master land use plan based on a property analysis that included physical features, slope analysis, existing land use, infrastructure and building conditions. In the initial study phase completed in mid-1999, Landplan specifically addressed creative design, adaptive reuse, physical site redevelopment, and impact on the adjacent infrastructure and landscape. Through this extensive analysis, a proposed land use plan was created depicting the highest and best mixed land uses in a business and technology park, including business office park, business light industrial, office, commercial, community service, multi-family, and open space/greenbelt.

Incorporated throughout the park is a greenbelt/pedestrian corridor that is an integral part of the transportation flow of the park. Designed to create a pedestrian transportation linkage between developments, it also serves as a recreation pavement that will connect to and extend the City of Topeka’s existing and future pedestrian park and trail system. Proposed site amenities included in this corridor are landscaping, berms, ornamental street lighting, bollard lighting, benches and sculpture. The master plan was formally adopted by the City of Topeka in March 2000 as a Master Planned Unit Development Plan (PUD).