KANSAS CITY| Development & Projects - Page 2

Eightball · #1 Posted **Nov 16, 2014, 3:46 PM**

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Boulevard Beer breaks ground for a new $12 million expansion.
KC Biz Journal story

Named 'Cellar Five', this expansion will increase capacity by 40 percent, to well over 300,000 barrels a year. Located right on SW Blvd in the downtown area's Westside neighborhood.

How's their beer?

Wayward Memphian · #2 Posted **Nov 16, 2014, 6:27 PM**

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How's their beer?

good to ourstanding depending which one it is.

train_bike · #3 Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 12:44 AM**

Local newspaper KC Star unveiled a neat interactive site today which showcases around 70 projects of various stages going on in downtown KC.

NYC2ATX · #4 Posted **Nov 24, 2014, 10:23 AM**

Can you tell me more about those Taylor, Ragan and McGee Buildings in Union Hill? Are they condos? market-rate apartments? low-income housing? They're rather nice, and I'm impressed by the stately and traditional designs.

train_bike · #5 Posted **Nov 25, 2014, 1:37 AM**

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Can you tell me more about those Taylor, Ragan and McGee Buildings in Union Hill? Are they condos? market-rate apartments? low-income housing? They're rather nice, and I'm impressed by the stately and traditional designs.

They are market-rate apartments, all built by developer Bob Frye.
He's been slowly developing the Union Hill neighborhood since 1987. Redeveloping vacant lots, I should say, as the neighborhood has a small but nice collection of historic Victorian homes not seen in many other parts of town. This is the final phase which includes 181-units in five buildings, plus 13 single family homes. The stone-clad Taylor, Ragan, and a similar under-construction Campbell building are 23 units each, ranging in rent from $1,245 to $1,995 a month (1BR & 2BRs). These are apparently modeled after apartments in Chicago's Lincoln Park. The brick McGee building and another soon to start construction McCoy building are 56-units each ranging in rent from $850 to $1,810 monthly (studio, 1BR & 2BRs).

Story here.

Leasing website w/ more details of all the buildings here.

I agree they look great, especially the stone-clad buildings. The brick ones are nice too, and they have uplighting installed that makes them really shine at night.

Yackemflaber69 · #6 Posted **May 10, 2015, 7:17 PM**

I think it should get its own thread.

train_bike · #7 Posted **May 10, 2015, 7:42 PM**

A new rendering of the south side of the proposed Two Light residential tower was released, recently:

train_bike · #8 Posted **May 10, 2015, 7:56 PM**

A local developer has released renderings for a proposed 25-floor class A office tower for a surface parking lot directly north of the Sprint Center arena. The developer has said that the building will not be speculative, so they are just marketing the site in hopes to land a major tenant at this point. Exciting, nonetheless, since job growth and reduced office vacancy downtown has ushered in smaller new office projects and hopefully larger ones like this are not far behind!

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...struction.html

Yackemflaber69 · #9 Posted **May 11, 2015, 2:58 AM**

What the hell is going on in KC

kjwill89 · #10 Posted **May 11, 2015, 3:50 AM**

Also, apparently Kansas City is the choice of the first major Smart City in the US.

http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/...ech-powerhouse

Pretty exciting time to be living here! I'm originally from Louisville, KY and nothing ever happened out there. They are getting a new convention hotel as well though.

SPonteK · #11 Posted **May 11, 2015, 5:50 PM**

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What the hell is going on in KC

We finally realized what a cool small city we live in, that we should aim to be more like Minneapolis, MN than Minneapolis, KS, that we live in a place that could be the place we all want to live, with just a little work and a little more more pride.

train_bike · #12 Posted **May 13, 2015, 3:53 AM**

They had a massing model on display at the official announcement for the Hyatt convention hotel project on Monday. It's the white tower, obviously. The other white structures adjacent to it are the existing Municipal Auditorium and the Bartle Hall convention center and ballroom complex which span the I-670 highway.

train_bike · #13 Posted **May 13, 2015, 4:23 AM**

Renderings of the under construction renovation of the Commerce Tower were released. The downtown 32-story tower, built in 1964, will feature a mix of uses including 342 market-rate residential units in addition to some office, educational, and retail space. The CVS store that exists in the ground floor of the attached garage will also see a major overhaul / upgrade as part of this project.
Commerce Tower sits on Main Street along the under construction streetcar line and will have a station at it's doorstop. The booming rental market downtown has seen several projects snatch up underutilized or vacant office space, shrinking available supply. As the downtown job growth has now been ticking up, we are starting to see demand for new office projects as well.

shakman · #14 Posted **May 15, 2015, 8:20 PM**

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God willingly I would love to live in a residential skyscraper that looks like a commercial building. If I ever have the opportunity to move to KCMO, this tower is where I would want to live.

sentinel · #15 Posted **May 18, 2015, 1:03 AM**

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What the hell is going on in KC

? Urban development, what does it look like?

That last office proposal is killer. Way to go KC.

Centropolis · #16 Posted **May 15, 2015, 3:41 PM**

keep the updates rolling. i am out of touch with development in kansas city, these days. looking forward to a visit next weekend during the I-70 Series!

livekc · #17 Posted **May 17, 2015, 2:56 AM**

love my city.

livekc · #18 Posted **May 17, 2015, 3:29 AM**

Okay, so I've tried and tried to get into KCRAG.com with no luck so I guess I'll just start contributing here. I hadn't had time to prefect these but these are what are proposed, planned, under construction in and around the P&L and convention center area of downtown Kansas City.

and just for fun if Cerner and DST started building downtown...

sentinel · #19 Posted **May 18, 2015, 1:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by livekc

Okay, so I've tried and tried to get into KCRAG.com with no luck so I guess I'll just start contributing here. I hadn't had time to prefect these but these are what are proposed, planned, under construction in and around the P&L and convention center area of downtown Kansas City.

and just for fun if Cerner and DST started building downtown...

This is amazing, thanks for creating this!

kjwill89 · #20 Posted **May 20, 2015, 12:37 AM**

Are the yellow "proposed" buildings real proposals or just ideas that you came up with yourself?