Development
Big Apartment Proposal Near Plaza Revived by Lane4
By Kevin Collison A big apartment project proposal on Belleview Avenue near the Country Club Plaza is back and this time it’s being pursued by Lane4, an experienced multi-family residential developer. Lane4 Property Group has obtained the rights to develop the site where The Dylan apartment project was proposed more than two years ago. The…
Plan to Redevelop Historic ABC Building on Main Clears First Hurdle
By Kevin Collison A $13 million redevelopment proposal for two historic buildings near Linwood and Main on the planned streetcar route cleared its first hurdle Tuesday with a development agency approving a blight designation and preliminary plan. Exact Partners wants to renovate the six-story ABC Storage Building at 3244 Main and an adjoining three-story building…
Sam Rodgers Housing Project to Add 62 Mixed-Income Apartments
By Kevin Collison Sam Rodgers Place, a 62-unit mixed-income housing development, broke ground Monday on the campus of the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center near downtown. The development is intended to provide housing to households across the spectrum, from families coming from public housing to market-rate renters. It will include apartments with up to five-bedrooms as…
Stalled Ashland Project Purchased, Work Expected to Resume This Year
By Kevin Collison The long-stalled Ashland on Third apartment development in the River Market has been purchased by a Minneapolis firm that’s expected to tweak the design and resume construction possibly by the end of this year. Oaks Properties has bought the project from KC Commercial Realty Group. KC Commercial began work on what was…
Developer Tackles Historic Building for $120M Affordable Housing Project
By Kevin Collison Fresh from building a super-green apartment complex from scratch, developer Jonathan Arnold is tackling a very different project, renovating a massive, century-old building into affordable housing. Arnold wants to convert the historic National Cloak and Suit Company building at 5401 Independence Ave. into 352 apartments at an estimated cost of $120 million….
Lux Living Riverfront Project in ‘Limbo’ After Port KC Board Balks at Vote
By Kevin Collison A $56 million riverfront apartment proposal that would have been the first to meet the city’s affordable housing goal is now in “limbo” after the Port KC board failed to vote on it Monday. The plan by Lux Living of St. Louis for a 250-unit apartment development was seeking a 25 year…
After Some Sleuthing, Port KC Committee Endorses Riverfront Apartment Plan
By Kevin Collison A proposed 250-unit apartment riverfront project was endorsed for a 25-year property tax abatement Monday by a Port KC committee, but only after a little sleuthing in St. Louis by top officials at the agency. Lux Living wants to build the $56 million project that would be the first to meet the…
SomeraRoad Finds Path to West Bottoms, Proposes 1,200-Unit Redevelopment
By Kevin Collison New York-based SomeraRoad is proposing a sweeping redevelopment of a 26-acre section of the West Bottoms, the latest out-of-town developer to see opportunity in that long overlooked quadrant of greater downtown. The firm has filed an initial multi-phase redevelopment concept with the city that calls for eventually adding 1,211 residential units over…
Going Green Pays Off at Second + Delaware, Fully Leased After One Year
(Editor’s note: This article originally appeared Sept. 20, 2021) By Kevin Collison The pioneering Second + Delaware development has cashed in by going green, leasing all 276 apartments while still getting premium rents a year after opening in the River Market. The $71 million “passive house” project upended the traditional stick-built approach to residential construction,…
KCATA Briefed on Tower Plan for 10th and Main, Work Could Begin in 2023
By Kevin Collison A mixed-use tower with up to 240 apartments being proposed for KCATA property at 10th and Main could break ground by summer 2023 and open by early 2025, according to a tentative schedule outlined Wednesday. The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority board received a progress report on the ambitious development concept being…