Kansas City, Mo. – December 12, 2025: Chris Mattix, Greg Musil, and Kevin Mason, attorneys with Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C., recently helped their client, a well-known convenience store and gas station chain, successfully defend a property tax appeal before Missouri’s Western District Court of Appeals. The case was briefed by Kevin and Chris and argued by Chris on November 5, 2025.
The primary issue was whether a certain deed restriction limiting future use of the property could be assessed as real property under Missouri law, and if so, whether the deed restriction had any value. The firm has received favorable results on behalf of its client throughout every step of the administrative and judicial appeals process.
About Chris Mattix: Chris uses his unique background as a lawyer who holds accounting and finance degrees and worked as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to assist clients obtain economic development incentives such as tax abatements, TIF, and tax credits in Missouri and Kansas. Through this representation, he became well versed in property tax valuation concepts and has significant experience challenging property tax assessments and obtaining exemptions and abatements in Kansas and Missouri.
About Greg Musil: Greg has successfully assisted clients navigating the federal, state, and local permitting and regulatory process for renewable energy projects involving solar and wind energy across the country. With his roots in rural Kansas, he understands the opportunities such projects offer the local and larger economy and the process of evaluating and mitigating concerns of local residents. Greg’s diverse practice also includes work on real property issues such as eminent domain, acquisition of economic development incentives, valuation of real property, and property tax appeals and exemptions.
About Kevin Mason: Kevin is a trial attorney with wide-ranging experience in commercial, real estate, transportation, and employment litigation matters in state and federal courts on both sides of the state line.
About the Public Law Practice Group: The firm’s Public Law Practice Group attorneys assist clients in obtaining approval of changes in zoning and development entitlements such as variances and the issuance of building permits as well as practicing before administrative bodies on matters related to regulatory compliance. They also assist clients in obtaining the approval of economic development incentives. Click to view a project map of work the firm has completed.
About the firm:
Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes is a leading Kansas City law firm with a national reach that deploys skilled and client-focused practice groups to engineer favorable solutions in efficient and effective ways.
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