Housing
Flatland covers stories about affordable housing, evictions and tenant rights in the Kansas City metro and surrounding area.
The KC Homeless Union met with Mayor Q for Four Days Straight. Here’s What They Agreed on.
In Kansas City, unhoused people are temporarily moving into hotels. Will the city commit to longer-term solutions?
Embracing a Millionaire Mindset Just Down the Road From Kansas City
A new study finds Pittsburg and Joplin are great places to stretch $1 million.
West Bottoms Flats Hosts Neighborhood Party
West Bottoms Flats, the first big foray by a developer into renovating the district’s massive, old warehouses into housing, is holding a party this evening to get more people acquainted with the neighborhood. “We are hoping that this event will help bring more people over to the north side of the bottoms and get them…
Three Light Construction to Start in May, Midland Renovation This Fall
The Cordish Co. has confirmed construction of the $140 million Three Light luxury apartment tower will begin in May, adding the renovation of the historic Midland building into affordable apartments is expected to begin this fall.
Maxus Files Apartment Proposals Ahead of Stricter Incentive Policies
By Kevin Collison A proposal to convert the former AT&T building at 500 E. Eighth St. into a 283-unit apartment project specializing in work-live space has been filed by Maxus Properties with the a city development agency. Maxus acquired the 1973 office tower three years ago and originally intended to upgrade it for modern office…
Office Tower Proposed Near Planned 27th and Main Streetcar Stop
An $83.4 million office tower is in the works for vacant property owned by Crown Center near the planned 27th and Main streetcar stop in Kansas City.
Advisory Group Endorses 12-Story Apartment Tower for River Market
By Kevin Collison A proposal to build a 12-story, 300-unit apartment tower on a parking lot immediately west of the City Market has been endorsed by a review committee reporting to Port KC. The $75 million plan submitted by Flaherty & Collins of Indianapolis was recommended over a competing proposal from RM Housing, a local…
Museum Apartment Tower, $116M Project, Proposed for 45th and Main
By Kevin Collison Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed for the gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main, is among the development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month. The bump in applications to the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas…
Museum Tower, $116 Million Apartment Project, Proposed for 45th and Main
Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed as a gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main streets, leads the list of development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month.
Katz Drug Store Proposal Purrs Past Plan Commission
Design tweaks to a proposed apartment development that also would restore the historic Katz Drug Store in midtown helped the project win unanimous support from the City Plan Commission.