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KANSAS CITY| Development & Projects
This thread follows the general state of new/ongoing development in the entire Kansas City Metropolitan Area (KCMO, KCK, Johnson County, etc.) comprising of urban renewal, suburban projects, high rise development, civic projects, etc. Feel free to include projects that reach as far as Lawrence, KS (University of Kansas) and. St. Joseph, MO as they are often associated with the KC Metro Area.
https://static.squarespace.com/stati...%20HDR%202.jpg Add any photos/updates to maintain a complete list......updates can range from a new neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, park/outdoor space improvements, to high rise development. Development Projects in Downtown Kansas City UNDER CONSTRUCTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two Light https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1595/...af3df0eb_o.jpg Power & Light Apartments (part of P&L tower project - 52 units) http://www.skylinescenes.com/e107_im...s/kcmo_020.jpg Convention Hotel https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZH...5-h497-no?.jpg RENOVATIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Argyle Building (126 units) http://www.skylinescenes.com/e107_im...s/kcmo_038.jpg Power & Light Tower Apartments (218 units) http://www.skylinescenes.com/e107_im...s/kcmo_019.jpg Pickwick (261 units) http://www.skylinescenes.com/e107_im...s/kcmo_027.jpg PROPOSED -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three Light, Four Light, and 12 Grand http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...ps0ro7rc4f.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Development Projects in the Kansas City Urban Core (outside of downtown) The Plaza, Crown Center, Columbus Park, Midtown, Westport, UMKC, etc. http://www.skylinescenes.com/e107_im...2/IMG_5895.jpg UNDER CONSTRUCTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [placeholder for future news] RENOVATIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [placeholder for future news] PROPOSED -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46 Penn Centre http://www.blockllc.com/BusinessDeve...enn_Centre.jpg |
Suburban Development Projects
Eastern KCMO, Raytown, Independence, Lee's Summit, etc. UNDER CONSTRUCTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cerner Three Trails Campus https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1562/...db55032b_o.jpghttps://farm2.staticflickr.com/1679/...0798197d_o.jpg Nall Corporate Centre II, Overland Park http://www.blockllc.com/BusinessDeve...Nall-CC-II.jpg CityPlace, Overland Park Website Bluhawk, Overland Park Website KCBJ article https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1668/...e530f6da_o.jpg Lenexa City Center, Lenexa Website Site plan can be found here https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/pr...sv4M3aw=s16383 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/pr...seBt9bA=s16383 PROPOSED -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brookridge Golf Course Redevelopment KCBJ article https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1635/...8da8ee76_o.jpg RENOVATIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6601 College Blvd KCBJ article https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1470/...dd8fcd4e_o.jpg |
Streetcar virtues touted
April 8, 2014 Kevin Collison The Kansas City Star http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/07...t-virtues.html "The good news is, the Kansas City downtown streetcar plan has lots of people excited. And for the most part, that’s a wonderful thing because it’s an important boost to our hopes for joining other progressive U.S. cities embracing rail transit. The concern remains, however, that streetcar backers are overstating its effect when it comes to stimulating development, setting people up for unrealistic expectations. That was my takeaway from last week’s discussion on “Development in the Age of #KCStreetcar,” sponsored by the local chapter of the Urban Land Institute and the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance. It was a good update on some new projects: George Birt’s River Market West apartment project and the 1914 Main apartment plan by a Colorado developer. And it was a progress report on two older proposals: Jon Copaken’s Crossroads apartment deal first floated in 2007 and the 51st and Oak Whole Foods plan announced by VanTrust Real Estate in 2012." |
West Elm will open in the former Pottery Barn space on the Country Club Plaza
April 8, 2014 Joyce Smith The Kansas City Star http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/08...r-pottery.html "West Elm, a subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, sells an assortment of home products, including furniture, bedding, bathroom accessories, rugs, curtains, lighting, decorative accessories, dinnerware, kitchen items and gifts. It plans a fall opening at 400 W. 47th St., at the corner of 47th Street and Broadway. In a statement, Glenn Stephenson, vice president of the Kansas City division of Highwoods Properties, said the store will be a “fantastic addition to the Plaza’s great lineup of exclusive retailers.” Pottery Barn closed in January after nearly 20 years of operations on the Plaza. West Elm, which was launched in 2002, previously had an area store in Leawood’s One Nineteen shopping center, now called Town Center Crossing. It opened in the middle of 2008 and closed in early 2010, along with three other West Elm locations in California, Ohio and Virginia. However, the company also opened new stores that year. There are currently about 60 West Elm retail stores in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe." |
11 Things Only People from Kansas City Will Understand
http://www.bustle.com/articles/19921...ill-understand http://mbeconnect.com/wp-content/upl.../KCMO-Logo.png Eight Kansas City Fountains in Desperate Need of Repair http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/...eed-of-repairs "KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The City of Fountains Foundation is working to raise money to restore eight Kansas City fountains that may shut-off for good if not repaired. Foundation Board Member Pat O'Neill said some of the city's 48 fountains are between 50 and 100 years old. Some have rusted pipes and cracking walls. Last year, the foundation started a fundraising campaign called "Wish upon a Fountain." So far it is halfway to it's goal of raising $2.5 million. Part of the money raised paid for renovations at the Eagle Scout Memorial Fountain. Crews repaired the fountain's lights, plumbing, mechanics, walls and landscaping." |
Lee’s Summit City Council approves more apartments at New Longview
April 9, 2014 Russ Pulley Lee's Summit Journal http://www.lsjournal.com/2014/04/09/...-approves.html " The Residences at New Longview won solid support from the Lee’s Summit City Council which approved the $35 million project without dissent. The council voted 7-0 April 3, with David Mosby absent, for the project’s preliminary development plan and for a Chapter 100 plan that will dictate the amount of taxes paid by the project for the next 11 years. NorthPoint Development plans to build 309 luxury apartment units, in seven, four-story buildings of Craftsman style architecture, with stone and lap siding just east of Metropolitan Community College-Longview and south of existing apartments. “The quality is the highest quality we see here in the Kansas City area, or across the nation,” said Mark Pomerenke, vice president of operations for NorthPoint Development. Under the financial agreement with Lee’s Summit and NorthPoint Development, the city would technically own the project for 11 years and issue bonds for construction, with NorthPoint Development making “payments in lieu of taxes.” " http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...SoX.St.81.jpeg |
Film Office to be back in action in Kansas City
April 9, 2014 Fox4KC Melissa Stern http://fox4kc.com/2014/04/07/film-of...n-kansas-city/ "KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City might be seeing more action:”lights, camera, action” that is with the help of a film office returning after a decade of having the curtain down. Kansas City is reeling in the production business. After more than 10 years, the city’s new budget is bringing about the the re-establishment of a film office. “We’ve fallen behind in terms of productions that should have happened here,” said Teri Rogers, the CEO and President of the production company, Hint.”When you don’t have a film office, or a person to go to, what happens is, either it falls to the film commission which is all volunteers and we all have our own jobs.” Rogers says when Kansas City’s government sponsored film office was discontinued more than a decade ago, it caused the city to fall behind in the industry." |
Groundbreaking tomorrow!
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Man GuessWho, way to get this KC compilation page going strong. :cheers:
This is definitely a good start to all the KC projects, especially suburban projects. I will try and add some information to as many of the projects as I can. There are also many urban projects that haven't been listed yet, so I will see what I can do to help as well. Not sure where you got your info, but most all of the info I will provide is from the kcrag.com development forum. We have an on-going downtown development thread that has been kept up with the hard work of our online community. |
Thanks d'trolley. My immediate sphere of development visibility usually revolves around Leawood (and there really isn't much going on there other than Park Place), so any downtown KC projects you spot would be great to see.
It just bugged me that KC was the only Midwest city without a thread on this forum, so I thought I'd start one......kcrag.com definitely is loaded with content, so I'll have to check over there from time to time. |
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Here is the rendering given in this article that GuessWho included: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/07...t-virtues.html This project is a 5 story mixed use building at 1914 Main. It is being developed by a Colorado developer who has been quoted as saying the primary reason for them building in KC is the streetcar. Currently this development site is a parking lot. |
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Photo taken by kcrag forumer Critical_Mass Helix architecture and design firm is finishing up a renovation and expansion project of the building at 1515 and 1517 Walnut. Here is an article about this project: http://www.helixkc.com/in-progress/1...-urban-living/. The building is becoming mixed use with retail on the ground floor and a few apartments on the upper floors. The third floor is a completely new addition. |
Dead Mall - Metro North Shopping Center
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/10...g-tuesday.html The entire mall, opened in 1976, has recently shut down, except for a Macy's and three freestanding restaurants which remain open. http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...CBtI.St.81.JPG A new proposal to demolish the mall and replace it with a one story project (2/3 the size of the current mall) has been floated around, however several redevelopment projects have failed at this site, so nothing is certain. The site at US-169 and Bary Rd is very visible and quite large, so whatever redevelopment occurs, will hopefully be sizable and mixed use with medium density residential if the area demand can support it with the new KCI terminal proposal. I'm guessing that the opening of Zona Rosa just to the west killed off this mall (along with the general decline of indoor malls). |
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http://s7.postimg.org/l4vjrzqtn/apex_QH.jpg Apex http://s1.postimg.org/fnbi7yi4f/summit_QH.jpg Summit Wide variety eh? :haha: These are huge projects for downtown though, so I can't be upset yet. I'm not too excited about the renderings that have come out so far, but I'm sure these are far from final designs. I will have to wait to really give any serious judgements. |
New Data Center at Subtropolis
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/15...btropolis.html LightEdge Solutions has opened its new $60 million data center at the Subtropolis underground business park operated by Hunt Midwest, and dignitaries such as Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and members of the Hunt family are to attend a ribbon-cutting event Wednesday. The new 60,000-square-foot operation will serve LightEdge, a cloud computing, co-location and managed services company based in Des Moines. The 21-employee operation is the anchor tenant for what’s being called the Subtropolis Technology Center. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ubtropolis.jpg |
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Image found at http://www.portfolio-home.com/flagship.html A classic Kansas City building across the street from Union Station plans to be converted into residential. The flagship Portfolio Kitchen and Home store currently occupies the ground floor. http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...-contract.html |
51 Main
http://www.lds-kc.com/assets/images/project-51-main.jpg This 5 story (along Main, 6 story along Baltimore) luxury apartment building is half way done being built. Located at the corner of 51st and Main st. in the South Plaza, this building will have 176 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail. |
Developers lay out their visions for the Kansas City of tomorrow
http://www.pitch.com/imager/b/magnum...b0/cordish.jpg http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/kans...wFullText=true "By 2020, Kansas City's downtown may more resemble a neighborhood than a business center. "I'd say it already is," says Kansas City, Missouri, City Councilman Ed Ford, whose district once included downtown. "We have more residents and probably less jobs than we did 10 years ago. I think we'll see that trend continuing." Not probably. Definitely. Downtown Kansas City lost 16,000 jobs between 2001 and 2011, despite City Hall's pouring billions of dollars into sprucing up the once-seedy core. Much of the employment loss is attributed to an aging stock of office buildings in the south loop, from which companies have fled in large numbers. Parking shortages and outmoded building configurations have made cheaper locales, such as Overland Park's Sprint Campus, or newly renovated buildings like Union Station preferable to stodgy skyscrapers from the 1960s, like Commerce Tower." Great article with an update on UMKC moving the art school campus downtown. |
I know posts on here are usually secular due to the nature of general development, but I think this is notable just due to the size of the project, and it being KC's most well known "mega-church."
Leawood’s United Methodist Church of the Resurrection eyes a $90 million overhaul http://www.kansascity.com/2014/03/08...st-church.html http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...VQO.St.81.jpeg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...8fA.St.81.jpeg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...XtO.St.81.jpeg "New additions near 137th Street and Roe Avenue in Leawood, as laid out in the church’s capital campaign, are designed to be much prettier than what motorists see there today. Never before has Resurrection featured stained glass. These plans call for one of the largest stained glass windows in the country, facing northwest and visible from U.S. 69, two miles away." |
Mission Gateway developer promises 'no more promises'
March 21, 2014 http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit....html?page=all "After eight years of delays in attempting to develop the Mission Gateway project at Johnson Drive and Roe Avenue, developer Tom Valenti said he's not making any more promises. But he's not giving up either, Valenti insisted during a breakfast meeting held Friday to update Mission residents on the Gateway and Johnson Drive reconstruction projects. Valenti did say that a proposed 150,000-square-foot Walmart store, which replaced an aquarium as the project's anchor tenant in 2012, remained committed to the project and wasn't in jeopardy. But while he acknowledged that Walmart's lease could be voided if Gateway isn't developed by a certain date, Valenti would not say what that deadline is." |
Judge hears arguments on proposed streetcar taxing district
April 15, 2014 http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...7bov.St.81.jpg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...p5JS.St.81.jpg http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/15...-proposed.html "Lawyers for supporters and opponents of Kansas City’s streetcars sparred Tuesday at a hearing to determine the legality of a new taxing district that could help fund extensions to the downtown starter route. Attorney Doug Stone, speaking on behalf of the City Council, told Jackson County Circuit Judge Marco Roldan that the proposed taxing district meets all Missouri law requirements and should be declared legal." |
Downtown apartment buildings, charter school project win approval
Kevin Collison Kansas City Star April 17, 2014 http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/17...approvals.html http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...GAq.St.81.jpeg http://s.lnimg.com/photo/full/2355be...e9214d37ea.jpg http://s.lnimg.com/xnet/mainsite/Htt...dth=0&Height=0 "Downtown Kansas City scored a triple play Thursday when two apartment projects totaling more than 300 units won incentives necessary to begin work and a plan to double the size of the Crossroads Academy charter school was approved. The larger of the two apartment proposals is the biggest residential project to date in the West Bottoms area, a 251-unit redevelopment that includes a historic building at 933 Mulberry St. The smaller project is a new 56-unit building in the River Market area. The Planned Industrial Expansion Authority granted the Reeder Family Trust a 15-year abatement for its project called The View at the West Bottom II. The $30 million redevelopment plan calls for renovating the nine-story building on Mulberry Street into 189 apartments and two nearby smaller buildings at 1200 and 1218 Union St. into 62 apartments. The abatement is for 95 percent of the new value for 10 years and 50 percent for five." Rendering from KC Star and photos from loopnet.com |
KC's newest luxury apartment complex is under construction
Austin Alonzo Kansas City Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...struction.html "Construction is underway on Mission 106, an addition to the successful mixed-use Mission Farms development in Leawood. Radd Way, executive vice president at The Weitz Co. LLC's Lenexa office, said work on the residential development, which includes 132 apartments and seven for-rent townhomes, has been underway for about a month. Way said Weitz, which is building the $30 million project, is done with its grading work and it will begin installing the foundation soon. The 206,000 square-feet of buildings — including the four-story tall apartment buildings, the town homes, 6,000 square feet of speculative office space, a 16,000 square-foot podium deck and a 206 stall, four-story parking garage — should be completed by around June 2015, he said." The project will take the place of the grassy field at the top right corner of the photo, adjacent to I-435 (photo from NSPJ Architects). http://nspjarch.files.wordpress.com/...pg?w=584&h=661 |
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This site is a great location to densify an inner ring suburb. To the west is the city and to the east is a great commercial street, as good of one we have in any of our inner ring suburbs. Johnson Drive almost feels like it's in the city. Creating a large mixed-use development on this site would do a lot toward connecting Mission to the city. It would work very well with any future rail lines we extend out to Johnson Drive. (sigh) What a fail. |
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KCI task force is poised to recommend airport terminal layout
Lynn Horsley Kansas City Star April 20, 2014 http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/20...recommend.html "Leaders of the KCI citizens task force say that despite the difficulties, they think they can soon forge a consensus on whether to renovate the airport’s terminals or build a new one. That decision is intended to guide one of the Kansas City area’s most important public building projects of the next decade. ....... The three choices that Frasca and Associates aviation consultants identified for the task force: • Major expansion on the individual horseshoe terminals, with additional passenger screening, new parking facilities and roadway reconfigurations, at a rough cost of more than $700 million. Shuttle buses would still connect the terminals. • A new central passenger screening area connecting the existing terminals, which would be repurposed as secure passenger concourses, plus new parking and roadway configurations, at a rough cost of more than $700 million. Some kind of moveable walkway might be required through the concourses. • A new single terminal, plus new parking and other features, at a rough cost of $800 million to $1.2 billion. Koster said some details emerged very recently and haven’t been thoroughly discussed. And he still thought the group should consider a fourth option of baseline repairs to the three terminals, which the Aviation Department has roughly estimated at $365 million to $460 million." |
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Just my opinion but I think the new single terminal is the best option. KCI feels like an underground WWII bunker (exposed jagged concrete looking ceilings just aren't a good look), it is so congested (inside security) that I feel like I'm back in Asia trying to board a Beijing bound train, and the concessions/dining are woefully limited inside security, as well as the restrooms being severely under-present/flat out "out of order" oftentimes. However the passenger traffic at KCI certainly doesn't warrant a new terminal, especially with the Wright Amendment being lifted at Dallas Love, meaning that all those Midway-Kansas City flights (with Chicago boarded passengers), can now skip Kansas City entirely (same story for STL) and fly straight to Dallas, so I'd expect the number of Dallas bound flights to decrease later in the year when all the restrictions are repealed in October and when Midway-Dallas flights begin on October 13. Logistically, a new terminal would be located on the southern end of the airport, so what would that mean to all the services at the northern end (i.e. hotels, rental cars, etc.), they'd probably need to extend their shuttle services down to the southern end. And in terms of who would pay for this, I think they've proposed the standard flight/rental car surcharge, or was it a sales tax increase (not certain...)? |
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Incentives endorsed for Burns & McDonnell expansion plan
Kevin Collison Kansas City Star April 22, 2014 http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/22...for-burns.html http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...Q3q.St.81.jpeg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...VlG.St.81.jpeg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...ZAi.St.81.jpeg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...Edu.St.81.jpeg "Burns & McDonnell’s plan for a $130 million headquarters expansion project at 9400 Wornall Road cleared its first hurdle Tuesday when a development agency endorsed its request for tax increment financing assistance. The fast-growing Kansas City-based engineering firm wants to build the addition next to its world headquarters at 9400 Ward Parkway to accommodate the 2,100 additional employees it expects to hire over the next decade. The employee-owned business now employs 4,300 people overall, 2,600 of them locally. It was recently ranked as the 18th-largest engineering firm in the country by Engineering News-Record, a trade publication." |
‘From the ashes,’ JJ’s restaurant will come back in Plaza Vista building
Old JJ's and map: http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibti...restaurant.jpg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...gSG.St.81.jpeg Joyce Smith Kansas City Star April 23, 2014 http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/23...ming-back.html For eight years, JJ’s restaurant stood in the shadows of a massive construction project just across the street. Then, as the construction activity was about to end, the popular restaurant near the Country Club Plaza blew up. A natural-gas leak caused a fiery explosion that killed one restaurant worker and injured others. On Wednesday, JJ’s owners — brothers Jimmy and David Frantze — announced they will reopen in late summer on the very development site that caused them so much grief. “Ironic isn’t the word for it. We’ll have to come up with another word,” Jimmy Frantze said at a news conference. “But JJ’s is back.” The Frantzes are leasing 4,800 square feet just off the lobby of the Plaza Vista office building at 900 W. 48th Place. JJ’s also will have a 1,600-square-foot patio along Roanoke Parkway." ............................... Photos from the KC Star & International Business Times. The explosion was extremely large and engulfed the entire block nearly. I'll refrain from posting photos of the fire on here seeing as one individual's life was lost and 15 others were injured.......but you can google it to see how large of a fire it actually was. |
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Kansas City Council approves billboard condemnation for Crossroads hotel plan
http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...peU.St.81.jpeg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...55z.St.81.jpeg Kevin Collison Kansas City Star April 24, 2014 http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/24...demnation.html "Kansas City has approved condemning a towering billboard at 20th and Main streets, a big step needed for a developer to move forward with a planned $16 million hotel project in the Crossroads Arts District. The proposed 110-room Hilton Home2 Suites would occupy the southeast corner of 20th and Main streets, but before it can proceed, a billboard owned by Lamar Advertising has to be removed. The pole sign also has been protected by a “perpetual” visual easement that says nothing can obstruct its view. On Thursday, the Kansas City Council unanimously designated the sign as blighted, beginning the condemnation process. “We’re very happy that the development seems to be moving forward and we’re committed to the project,” said Jason Swords with Sunflower Development Group. “It’s located on the streetcar route and would continue to redevelop that part of the Crossroads.” Swords is working on the five-story Hilton Home2 Suites deal on behalf of Overland Park-based True North Hotel Group." |
Centropolis - Are you from Centropolis, KS? That's about 70 miles southwest of KC I think.....
or the Centropolis neighborhood of KCMO? I'll try and persuade KC developers to name future projects after skyscraperpage members.......... |
Metcalf South redevelopers ask for input and get plenty
Rob Roberts Kansas City Business Journal April 25, 2014 http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit....html?page=all http://www.kmbc.com/image/view/-/238...ain-future.jpg “It’s looks like we’re not the only ones excited about 95th and Metcalf,” said Owen Buckley, president of Lane4 Property Group. He was surveying a crowd of about 200 who turned out Thursday evening for the first of two public meetings aimed at gathering neighbors’ input on the future of the Metcalf South and 95 West shopping center properties in Overland Park. Lane4 announced in March that it had teamed with The Kroenke Group of Columbia to buy the two largely vacant retail centers from MD Management for redevelopment. The centers are on a total of 62 acres at the northeast and southeast corners of 95th Street and Metcalf Avenue. Photo from kmbc.com http://www.kmbc.com/news/metcalf-sou...-sold/24740672 |
I'm always fascinated at the number of dead malls in KC, just waiting for redevelopment....
Broker is hired to find a new use for abandoned Indian Springs Mall Kevin Collison Kansas City Star April 30, 2014 http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...fHp.St.81.jpeg http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/30...redevelop.html The future of the vacant Indian Springs Mall, as desolate as it is visible along Interstate 635, is poised to be the responsibility of Lane4 Property Group, a local real estate firm familiar with urban redevelopment. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., which bought the mall in 2007, plans to hire Lane4 as its broker for the shopping center. It’s the first time the Unified Government has reached out to the private sector for help on finding a new use for the obsolete mall at I-635 and State Avenue. The 700,000-square-foot enclosed shopping center opened in 1971 and lost its last anchor department store in 2001. “Our intent is to get someone in on the site with a good background in urban redevelopment and mixed-use projects,” said Doug Bach, deputy county administrator for economic development. “We think Lane4 brings that together.” ................................. |
The bicycle racks look to be shaped like guitars which is kind of cool....
Rock & Brews, co-founded by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss, now open in Overland Park Joyce Smith Kansas City Star April 29, 2014 http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...iTs.St.81.jpeg http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...lGJ.St.81.jpeg http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/29...e-simmons.html Kiss co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley aren’t in town yet — not until a sold-out fundraiser in late May — but their Rock & Brews restaurant opened Tuesday night in Overland Park’s Prairiefire development at 5701 W. 135th St., between Lamar and Nall avenues. .................................... The first Rock & Brews opened in the Los Angeles area in 2009. Now there are three Rock & Brews in the Los Angeles area, one in Los Cabos, Mexico, and another in the Hawaiian island of Maui (some of the favorite haunts of the founders). Restaurants also are in development in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas. Theatrical lighting and iconic rock art surround the ceiling, which soars to about 25 feet. Garage doors line two sides of the space and will open to the patio in nicer weather. A children’s play area also is going up on the patio, and it will be dog- friendly. Multiple TVs are turned to the top rock videos of the last few decades, but the founders said they want their restaurants to be family friendly and quiet enough that tables can converse easily. |
Downtown YMCA planners look at more options, including the Lyric Theatre
Kevin Collison Kansas City Star May 2, 2014 http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...yosC.St.81.JPG http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...nun.St.81.jpeg http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/02...t-options.html The historic Lyric Theatre, silent since the symphony and opera left in 2011, could resound with the bounce of basketballs and other healthy racket under a plan being explored for a proposed downtown YMCA. Supporters of the Downtown Y Community Center plan had been focused on a site at 10th Street and Grand Boulevard for the past year but are pausing now to explore two other options that would eliminate the need for an estimated $9 million, 500-space parking garage. “We’ve been doing very well with fund raising,” said Peter DeSilva, the business executive leading the Y fundraising. “The one challenge has been raising money for a garage. There’s not a lot of philanthropists who want their name on a garage.” DeSilva, president and chief operating officer of UMB Financial Corp., said the Y has been approached by the owner of the Lyric at 11th and Central streets on a renovation plan for that historic property. ......................... |
Task force backs single terminal for KCI
Lynn Horsley Kansas City Star May 7, 2014 http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...h3N.St.81.jpeg http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/07...-terminal.html Kansas City should replace its existing three terminals with a new single terminal at KCI Airport, a citizens group that has spent the past year studying improvements recommended Wednesday. Nineteen of the KCI Terminal Advisory Group’s 24 members voted in favor of building a new single terminal subject to more information on costs. The advice from the KCI Terminal Advisory Group echoes a plan that the city’s Aviation Department had put forth but that many in the public have rejected out of love for the current convenient parking-to-gate distances. The citizens’ recommendation is intended to guide the city toward one of the most important civic building projects of the next decade. The Aviation Department has said it needs to modernize the 40-year-old airport that many Kansas City residents and travelers adore just the way it is. ...................................... |
Hey KC people, wake up!
Congrats on your Royals (I think you're going to win the WS) ... and one request, please post a pic or two from the parade! Thanks in advance. |
Greater downtown projects currently UC
This is not necessarily comprehensive. :D
River Market River Market West (residential) 5 story, 137 units http://s24.postimg.org/52q4eo3tx/riv...tments_600.jpg http://s22.postimg.org/y9udlwqo1/By_...Ig_AAb3x_G.jpg ............................................................................... Centropolis 5 story, 56 units http://s21.postimg.org/ps2fl4pnr/centropolis.png -------------------------------------------------------- CBD One Light (residential) 25 story, 315 units http://s9.postimg.org/5otp7l42n/C1_east_1080x1067.jpg http://s23.postimg.org/v6bs6c6ff/One...ted_9_2014.jpg http://s22.postimg.org/azkt3z3lt/One_Light_Tower_3.jpg ............................................................................... Power & Light Building (residential, commercial, retail) renovation of mostly vacant tower into residential with ground floor commercial 36 story, 218 units new garage wrapped with residential and ground level retail 6 story, 52 units http://s22.postimg.org/voyhws9hd/pl2...2043_137_0.jpg http://s18.postimg.org/axo4np9cp/10_north_expansion.jpg ............................................................................... Gumbel Building Hampton Inn (renovation of vacant building into hotel) 6 story, 70 rooms http://s29.postimg.org/58082fw87/Bzc_QDo_XCUAA_9_Nx.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- West Bottoms Stockyards Place (residential, retail) 3 story, 11 units http://s30.postimg.org/p1os1yj7l/KEM...ds_Place_1.jpg http://s12.postimg.org/iscfm49jx/KEM...ds_Place_2.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- Crossroads 1914 Main (residential, retail) 5 story, 44 units ... okay, this one breaks ground in Nov., so technically not UC yet http://s23.postimg.org/jnhcr3g5n/KEM...914_Main_1.jpg http://s11.postimg.org/hdmr9l4cz/KEM...914_Main_2.jpg http://s9.postimg.org/jhqhm6odb/KEMS...914_Main_3.jpg ............................................................................... Courtyard Marriot / Residence Inn (hotel, retail) 10 story, 257 rooms http://s10.postimg.org/vl0wum0bd/Ren...g_KC_CY_RI.jpg http://s27.postimg.org/pdzl0trw3/Ren...KC_CY_RI_2.jpg ............................................................................... Globe Building & Corrigan Building (commercial) Globe Bldg (7 story) was vacant, Corrigan Bldg (10 story) mostly vacant. Both being renovated for offices. http://s30.postimg.org/5ph6hekzl/globebldg.jpg http://s17.postimg.org/xz0b7qhbz/cor...ilding_600.jpg http://s4.postimg.org/pg7khplvx/corriganbldg.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- River Market, CBD, Crossroads Streetcar 2 mile starter line http://s23.postimg.org/fmsaf9d3f/IMG..._L57330022.jpg http://s29.postimg.org/9y9gcrenb/kan...design_600.jpg http://s13.postimg.org/rgyzbdrbb/B0kbp_Zi_CQAAyi2a.jpg http://s27.postimg.org/4k6j4poxf/Byy..._IIAE_d_ZV.jpg http://s11.postimg.org/n6efr6mhf/Byz...Ig_AIpg_ZV.jpg |
Midtown & Plaza area projects currently UC
Union Hill
Union Hill Development, Phase 2 (residential, retail) 5 buildings, 181 units http://s15.postimg.org/tpfibax63/107...06671950_o.jpg http://s21.postimg.org/bntpa9c6f/104...63327680_n.jpg http://s28.postimg.org/aioe4f8m5/107...06555763_o.jpg ............................................................................... 29 Gillham (residential) 3 story, 22 units http://s28.postimg.org/zafa3jrz1/29_Gillham_01.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- Hyde Park Gillham Park Row (residential) 3 story, 23 units http://s1.postimg.org/94ud96um7/37th...eb_550x327.jpg http://s30.postimg.org/jbl41kd6p/37t...eb_550x244.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- Westport AG Hotels (hotel renovation / rebranding) before: http://s28.postimg.org/uec3v88rh/IMG_1741.jpg when completed: http://s12.postimg.org/m704iqs7x/mciac_phototour01.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- North Plaza 46 Penn (residential) 5 story, 177 units http://s28.postimg.org/uxzkngtp9/46_Penn_Exterior.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- West Plaza Springhill Suites (hotel) 4 story, 96 rooms http://s11.postimg.org/o71tdtx77/BRR...es_440x275.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- South Plaza 51 Main (residential, retail) 6 story, 176 units http://s30.postimg.org/fbac1v7pd/51_...0_1000x667.jpg http://s1.postimg.org/fhnao91tr/51_M...2_1000x667.jpg http://s12.postimg.org/3qewjer19/51_...3_1000x667.jpg http://s3.postimg.org/t9drring3/51_M...5_1000x667.jpg http://s11.postimg.org/bh26ehemr/Nor...orner_mini.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- Westwood, KS (just west of West Plaza across the state line) Woodside Village, Phase 1 (residential, retail) 4 story, 91 units http://s14.postimg.org/u3tpdcso1/southwest_600x360.jpg Phase one on the left: http://s7.postimg.org/y5hmy62sr/101_...x3797_2531.jpg http://s22.postimg.org/a0jcy0flt/101...774_2520_5.jpg -------------------------------------------------------- Westport / Plaza B-Cycle bike sharing expansion 8 new bike sharing stations added to the network so far, with plans to add as many as 36 new stations as part of the phase 2 expansion. The 8 new stations brings the total to 20...small, but growing. http://s29.postimg.org/k8e7ud5rb/Bz_Rw_WPy_CAAA6vxe.jpg |
Could someone please post progress photos of One Light? :cheers: Curious to know the status of this development.
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Good to see the progress. I moved to Missouri in 1988 from San Jose, lived there through 2002. My parents and I made the trip to Kansas City from Springfield one time because we missed the city life. I think this was around 1991. We were pretty disappointed, but now seeing the progress I hope I can spend some time in kc and St. Louis next time I visit from seattle.
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When I look at some of these designs for apartment buildings and, particularly, the Marriott Courtyard, I give thanks I never became an architect!
Being under such a strict budget, bean-counters for the corporation looking over your shoulders, rejecting any ideas that might make the project go over budget, no thanks! I'll stick to fantasy Lego structures, 40 Lego Skyscrapers in my living room alone, not counting the rest of the house! Anytime I want to put up a 150-story building, I don't even have to deal with Nimby's!:D If I were to be an architect, I'd want to build everything like they do in Mexico, concrete all the way, and that would get me fired the first week, my insistence upon it, even a 2-story apartment building with a rooftop deck! |
Update on River Market West residential project:
http://s24.postimg.org/52q4eo3tx/riv...tments_600.jpg The top floor (5th) has begun to be framed out-- https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5...108_115116.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-f...108_115229.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S...108_115345.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_...108_115436.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...108_115650.jpg |
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New project UC for downtown (CBD)
Renovation of the former Folger's Coffee Plant at 8th & Broadway into residential.
The NW corner of the downtown loop used to have the pleasant smell of coffee thanks to this plant, but sadly Folger's shut down operations here in 2012. Now it's two buildings are being converted into 151 units. Project website http://www.oreillydevelopment.com/fi...dgfolgers2.jpg http://www.oreillydevelopment.com/fi...ogo960x630.jpg Some great photos from Eric Bowers: http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-ge...sas-city-1.jpg http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-ge...as-city-25.jpg http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-ge...as-city-32.jpg |
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