Move over historic buildings. You may have been the driver behind the vast majority of apartments and condos built downtown in recent years, but the city is looking for something sexier. Sexier as in new construction.
The rally at 17th and Wyandotte streets is being billed as a last-ditch effort to save the 1940s era building at 118 W. 17th St., but plans for its demolition continue, according to architect Jay Tomlinson of Helix Architecture & Design.
Highlands Lodge, a luxury apartment development being built in Overland Park, is expected to be completed this October, the latest project in the resurgence of multifamily construction in the Kansas City area.
RNL Design will be the lead architect for the two-story building and Maintenance Design Group will serve as lead consultant on the project.
Without the incentive, the vast majority of housing that’s been created in downtown Kansas City during its current revival wouldn’t have happened.
An Illinois developer has proposed a $51 million hotel and conference center in the fast-growing K-10 highway corridor in Olathe. Plans for the project were unveiled by Olathe Mayor Michael Copeland during his State of the City speech.
The Kansas City-based firm, formerly Entertainment Properties Trust, had a combined portfolio of 13.9 million square feet at year’s end.
The historic Gumbel Building at Eighth and Walnut streets is set to be converted to a boutique hotel. Developer Mark Patel bought the six-story building at 801 Walnut St. and plans to spend $5 million renovating it as an approximately 70-room hotel.
In response to car break-ins in the neighborhood, the Crossroads Community Association has launched an anti-crime initiative and is making a final push to create a long-discussed community improvement district.
After attending a streetcar workshop at last week’s national Smart Growth conference in Kansas City, one thing is for sure: They’re not a one-size-fits-all proposition.
The historic Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City building at 925 Grand Blvd. was bought for $12.8 million by the lender holding its promissory note at an auction Monday on the front steps of the Jackson County Courthouse.
A new health care information technology venture, eLuminate Health, which is intended to help consumers make informed choices and save money, is being launched in Leawood and expects to create 200 jobs over the next five years.
Kansas City has been on a roll lately when it comes to playing host to high-powered professionals and elected officials from across the country to ponder great thoughts on the future of cities, sustainability and smart growth.
A controversial plan to build a luxury Hyatt hotel at the Country Club Plaza with the help of tax incentives has been dropped and the developer is now considering an office building instead.
The owner of the historic Power & Light Building wants to dump some baggage that’s hampering its sale — a 2002 tax increment financing plan approved for a developer whose proposal fizzled years ago.
A planned $29.3 million housing project that would serve University of Missouri-Kansas City health care students at Hospital Hill got the green light Thursday to seek development proposals.
The old Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City building at 925 Grand Blvd. is scheduled to be sold at a trustee auction next week, the apparent end of a five-year effort by developer Jason Townsend to revive the historic skyscraper.
The old Midwest Hotel at 1925 Main St., a five-story fixture in the Crossroads Arts District, is back in the hands of the bank that foreclosed on the vacant property. De Soto-based Great American Bank bought the empty building for $371,000 at a foreclosure auction last week.
Two redevelopment projects with a personal twist that are expected to add 21 apartments to the Crossroads Arts District along with commercial space were approved for tax abatement help Tuesday by a Kansas City development agency.
Participants in the annual Kansas wheat quality tour estimated Thursday that the state will harvest 313 million bushels of winter wheat in a season marked by relentless drought in western counties and late spring freezes.
