Owner of Columbia bar plans to open a new concept in downtown Kansas City
Something Good is coming to Kansas City’s Garment District.
Note that capital G. Something Good is not a vague description of some impending arrival but rather the specific name of a new bar that plans to open later this spring on the garden level of the Carnival Building at 800 Broadway Blvd.
“I’ve been calling it an elevated dive bar, or a neighborhood lounge,” said owner Greta Gunderson. “We’ll have some food, but it’s not really a restaurant.”
Gunderson also owns Son of a Gun, a “cute, semi-upscale, modern-meets-vintage bar” she opened in 2023 in downtown Columbia. Though the concepts are different, she said she expected Something Good to cater to a similar type of crowd.
“We don’t really target college students in Columbia,” she said. “Our happy-hour crowd is a lot of 60-year-old men. Saturday night, it’s a lot of millennials. I think at (Something Good), it’ll be a lot of young professionals who live in the neighborhood and employees at the businesses nearby.”
Something Good’s drinks menu, Gunderson said, will be “straightforward and approachable.”
“We’ll have seasonal cocktails, things like that, but nothing too crazy,” she said.
The limited food menu planned includes basics like hot dogs and sandwiches alongside some more modern touches like wonton churros and potato chips with caviar.
The owner of Cliff’s Taphouse in midtown said in 2022 the bar would be opening a location in the space. But those plans never materialized.
The Carnival Building originally housed the Harvey-Dutton Dry Goods Co. when it opened in 1903.
It was purchased in 2022 by Exact 802 LLC, an ownership group that includes Caleb Buland of the the local architecture firm Exact Partners, Myron McCant, Sheryl Vickers, and Dan and Adam Weindling.
Following a $10 million renovation of the building, the group last year unveiled the Harvey Dutton Lofts, located across multiple floors of the eight-story building. It is now leasing.
This story was originally published April 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM.
