from Mayor Ronnie Price

There are many wonderful things happening in Andover, our big, small town. Andover continues in a healthy growth pattern regarding housing developments and apartment complexes for our steadily growing population. The Heritage Square construction is moving at a good pace and will provide 50,000 square feet (about half the area of a Manhattan city block) of commercial space, offering more places to eat and shop, as well as 186 resort style apartments with a parking garage for its residents all located next to the Heritage Plaza, a new gathering place for the Andover area community. Residents are expected to be moving into the Skylofts in the later half of 2023 and commercial businesses beginning in the months following. There will be inviting lifestyle housing of many varieties being built from the north end of Andover to the south end of our fine city!

Fire Station 2 will be complete in October 2023 and the remodel of the current Fire Station will start soon after and will be completed in Spring 2024 as part of the Family Future Forward sales tax.

The 13th Street Sports Park will be complete mid-summer of 2024, with five recreational baseball/ softball fields (designed to accelerate drying time,) a splash pad, and much more.

The city staff continues to work on infrastructure and one of the more noticeable improvements coming is an extension of Yorktown Parkway. This thoroughfare from 13th Street to Central Ave will be west of Butler Community College on 13th Street. It will improve travel through the city making it easier for Andover residents to enjoy all the amenities Andover provides.

The tornado recovery continues to go as well as one could ask but never fast enough. Prairie Creek Elementary is open and received $200,000 to replace and update technology damaged in the 2022 tornado from a US Congressman Earmark.

The YMCA water park is open, and the rest of the facility will open in 2024, once again serving the Andover area. Central Park received a lot of damage, losing over 1,200 trees and the beloved Lodge. The Parks Department saved some trees that would have been cut down in the 13th Street Sports Park Expansion and relocated them to the Central Park for them to be there for generations. The Lodge will be replaced and once again service families as a location for birthdays, reunions and graduation parties. The timeline for the Lodge has not yet been determined but is being diligently worked on by staff and the governing body.

Andover is and always will be a resilient community!

Stay healthy, happy, and safe

Ronnie Price

Mayor of Andover, Kansas

City Administrator:

Jennifer McCausland jmccausland@andoverks.com

Assistant City Administrator: Lance Onstott lonstott@andoverks.com

City Council:

Tim Berry tberry@andoverks.com

Shelby Carselowey scarselowey@andoverks.com

Joseph Forred jforred@andoverks.com

Michael ‘Homer’ Henry mhenry@andoverks.com

Troy Tabor ttabor@andoverks.com

Mike Warrington mwarrington@andoverks.com