Children's Mercy has unveiled details about its proposed health-care expansion in Wichita.

The Kansas City-based pediatric hospital announced Monday it plans to build an initial 18,000 square-foot, mutli-specialty ambulatory clinic east of Col. James Jabara Airport.

It will be developed near 29th Street North and Greenwich Road, just north of the TopGolf facility and near the proposed Community National Bank & Trust regional banking center.

The new clinic is expected to be open in the summer of 2026 by Children's Mercy, which has more than 30 specialty clinics including at the Wesley Medical Arts Building in Wichita.

Alejandro Quiroga, CEO and president of Children's Mercy, said the new, larger clinic location "deepens our promise" to support children's health in the region.

Children's Mercy, which had $3.27 billion in revenue in 2023, has operated for more than a decade in the Wichita area. Its new clinic will be designed to optimize space, foster collaboration and allow for expanded services, the announcement said.

A spokesperson for Children's Mercy confirmed it acquired 16 acres for the project.

Scott Harper of Landmark Commercial Real Estate brokered the deal. Wink Hartmann II, a development consultant with CRE Development Stategies, helped facilitate the deal, the Wichita Eagle reported .

Additional details about Children's Mercy's plans were not released, but a hospital could be part of the property's future.

The Metropolitan Area Planning Commission in January approved increased heights and building coverage and an expanded layout for the overall 42 acres in the 29th and Greenwich Community Unit Plan.

It also approved the use of a heliport as an accessory of a hospital on site that's located at the northeast corner of 29th North Street and Greenwich Road.

The applicant was the landowner, Tabbal Investments LLC, and Classic Real Estate. The agents were listed as PSC Consulting LLC, Landmark Commercial and Aubry Enterprises.

Kim Edgington of PSC Consulting LLC said at the January meeting that the first phase of the development on the northernmost piece of the property that's 16 acres is for a clinical facility, although she did not identify Children's Mercy.

"It is not going to have hospital facilities at this point, but the intent is to provide ability for future construction and expansion of a hospital facility," she said during the meeting.

She added that in the future they will look at where a potential heliport could be located on the site.

In addition, an application to annex the entire 42-acre property into the city of Wichita has been submitted, Edgington said.

The overall site will be divided into eight parcels, including two larger parcels along the northern portion of the land, where the clinic and potential hospital could be developed.

In the central part of the property, heights will now go up to 44 feet, while the northern portion will reach up to 80 feet, or about eight stories.

The property was rezoned for limited commercial several years ago for a mixed-use development by Iron Horse Development, which is owned by Brad Saville.

The developer previously planned to identify a residential or self-storage user for 10 acres with the remaining 30 acres for other commercial uses including retail and restaurants. Next to that site, Ritchie Development had acquired 32 acres of land in 2021 for a proposed neighborhood with 100 homes.

At the northwest corner of that intersection, zoning was approved in 2023 for another mixed-use development across 20 acres with commercial uses.