Back 9 Development at Tuesday’s Manhattan City Commission meeting will propose a second change to a project that called for a mixed-use building at the northwest corner of 12th and Laramie streets with a hotel and parking garage building across the street on the northeast corner.
Back 9 Development and owner TJ Vilkanskas now is proposing the hotel and parking garage be built on the Midtown site, formerly a parking lot south of Kite’s Bar and Grill and currently an empty mud pit .
Vilkanskas bought that site from the city for $1 and made a development agreement in April 2022. The city made the first amendment to the project in December 2023, extending project deadlines.
