KC may lose decades-old fourplexes near Plaza to a $61M apartment building
A block of 11 fourplexes just north of Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza have been in place for 84 years.
Perhaps no longer.
Should a $61 million apartment project — whose broad outlines were recently filed with the city — become a reality, the Plaza Broadway Apartments will be razed along with four other structures that comprise the entire block between W. 45th Terrace and W. 46th Street, Broadway Boulevard and Wornall Road.
In that spot, Overland Park-based EPC Real Estate Group is proposing to build what it described in a document filed with the city as “approximately 280 multi-family units over a parking garage. “
Plaza Broadway Apartments
The block is located just west of the Parkway Towers Condominiums and north of the Cascade Hotel, 4600 Wornall Road, which opened in 2023. The property is currently listed as being owned by Lewer Properties LP. Attempts to reach of the company were unsuccessful.
EPC is the same developer currently building several projects around Kansas City, including 74 Broadway, a $90 million, 281-unit apartment complex with a street-level restaurant where The Well restaurant, 7421 Broadway St. in Waldo, was formerly located.
Reached by phone Monday, Michael J. McKeen, EPCs president and chief and executive officer to discuss the Plaza area project. McKeen spoke briefly, only to confirm the scale of the project and to say that the company plans to distribute details and perhaps a rendering as part of a news release Wednesday.
At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, EPC representatives are scheduled to hold an informational meeting at the Cascade Hotel with members of the Plaza Westport Neighborhood Association.
Details of development plans
In December, EPC filed a request to meet with the city’s development assistance team. BRR Architecture of Overland Park is listed at the architecture firm. Jennifer Lerner, BRR’s vice president of communication, referred all inquires EPC.
The project’s engineering firm is listed as Taliaferro & Browne, Inc., which has been involved in projects that include CPKC Stadium, home to the Kansas City Current women’s soccer team, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the Three Light Tower apartment building in downtown Kansas City.
EPC said it anticipated beginning construction on Sept. 1. It listed the project’s completion date as Jan. 31, 2028.
Kate Marshall, president of the Plaza District Council, said she would withhold comment until she knew exactly what EPC’s plans are.
Amelia McIntyre, an attorney and board member with the preservation group, Historic Kansas City, said the group is watching the project closely.
“We are eager to meet with the developer to see what they propose,” she said.
