KANSAS CITY| Development & Projects

[train_bike]

This is not necessarily comprehensive.

River Market

River Market West (residential)
5 story, 137 units





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Centropolis
5 story, 56 units



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CBD

One Light (residential)
25 story, 315 units







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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





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Gumbel Building Hampton Inn (renovation of vacant building into hotel)
6 story, 70 rooms



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West Bottoms

Stockyards Place (residential, retail)
3 story, 11 units





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Crossroads

1914 Main (residential, retail)
5 story, 44 units ... okay, this one breaks ground in Nov., so technically not UC yet







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Courtyard Marriot / Residence Inn (hotel, retail)
10 story, 257 rooms





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Globe Building & Corrigan Building (commercial)
Globe Bldg (7 story) was vacant, Corrigan Bldg (10 story) mostly vacant. Both being renovated for offices.







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River Market, CBD, Crossroads

Streetcar
2 mile starter line

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Union Hill

Union Hill Development, Phase 2 (residential, retail)
5 buildings, 181 units







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29 Gillham (residential)
3 story, 22 units



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Hyde Park

Gillham Park Row (residential)
3 story, 23 units





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Westport

AG Hotels (hotel renovation / rebranding)

before:


when completed:


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North Plaza

46 Penn (residential)
5 story, 177 units



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West Plaza

Springhill Suites (hotel)
4 story, 96 rooms



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South Plaza

51 Main (residential, retail)
6 story, 176 units











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Westwood, KS (just west of West Plaza across the state line)

Woodside Village, Phase 1 (residential, retail)
4 story, 91 units



Phase one on the left:




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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.

[shakman]

Could someone please post progress photos of One Light? Curious to know the status of this development.

[train_bike]

Originally Posted by shakman

Could someone please post progress photos of One Light? Curious to know the status of this development.

From today:

[seapug]

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.

[IMBY]

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!

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!

[train_bike]

Update on River Market West residential project:



The top floor (5th) has begun to be framed out--

[train_bike]

One Light photo update:

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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





Some great photos from Eric Bowers:

[CLTNC]

Originally Posted by IMBY

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!

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!

It does not matter what state or city, all these apartment look like they came out of a cookie cutter machine. They all came from one architect.

[joshmv]

Just signed up because of this thread and wanted to say thanks for all of the work to keep it updated!

[train_bike]

Originally Posted by joshmv

Just signed up because of this thread and wanted to say thanks for all of the work to keep it updated!

Nice!

I didn't start this thread but it looked like it hadn't been updated in a while, so I thought I'd contribute a bit since there is a decent amount of current and proposed development happening right now in the urban core (for KC standards).

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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.

[train_bike]

Truman Medical Centers is building its first free-standing building on the Hospital Hill campus since 1998.

In June, a ground-breaking was held for a 4-story, 19,000 sf, $29 million outpatient center at 2101 Charlotte.
Article on ground-breaking

Construction has now begun on the building, due to open in the summer of 2015.

Besides TMC, the Hospital Hill campus includes Children's Mercy Hospital and UMKC's Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Dentistry.

[Eightball]

Originally Posted by train_bike

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]

Originally Posted by Eightball

How's their beer?

good to ourstanding depending which one it is.

[train_bike]

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

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The developer of a $78 million, 12-story*, Class A office tower proposed for the Plaza has received requested tax incentives, clearing the way for the project to start construction.

*8 floors of office space above 6 levels of parking -- 2 of them underground

KC Biz Journal article

[train_bike]

Still a lot of fund raising through philanthropy yet to go before construction nears for this project, but I had not seen renderings for this one before.

Proposed $279 million tower on the corner of 39th and Cambridge streets on the University of Kansas Hospital campus, which will house surgical oncology, neurology, neurosurgery and Ear Nose & Throat specialists. It appears to be eight stories tall.

KC Biz Journal article has more images.










The site is the empty lot north of 39th in this image:

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1. KC Streetcar

2. River Market West - Phase I : 5-story, 137 residential units

3. River Market West - Phase II : 148 residential units - NEW!

4. Centropolis : 5-story, 56 residential units

5. 531 Grand : 7-story, 140 residential units, 10,000 sf street-level retail - NEW!

6. Streetcar Maintenance Building

7. Second and Delaware : 4- and 7-story buildings, 312 residential units

8. Riverfront apartments : 4-story, 398 residential units, 12,000 sf commercial space

9. 3rd & Grand Multi-modal Center : serves local bus, BRT, MegaBus, future streetcar, B-Cycle station, terminus for a proposed commuter rail line; mixed-use development proposed may include commercial, service and/or residential with community/civic space

Residential under construction: 193 units
Residential proposed: 998 units

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[train_bike]

11 residential units + street-front retail going in on Genessee St. in the West Bottoms