News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Mulberry Lofts
905 Broadway | 25 apartments in renovated building | Cost: $8 million | Contractor: Centric Projects| Architect: KEM Studios (Kansas City) | Completion in early 2018
915 Broadway apartments
911 and 915 Broadway | 44 apartments in two renovated buildings | Cost $10.5 million | Opened June 2017
River Market Townhomes
Wyandotte Street between 4th and 5th | Six townhouses | Cost: undisclosed | Construction begins early 2018
Gallerie–phase 1
27th and McGee St (Union Hill) | 361 apartments and townhouses, parking garage, 7,500 retail (new construction) | Cost: $68 million | Architect: HOK and Dwell Design Studios (Atlanta) | Under construction
The Abbott
1901 Cherry Street (East Crossroads) | 15,000 square foot building renovation for event space | Cost $3 million | Under construction The ballroom at The Abbott will be able to accommodate up to 1,100 guests. (Image provided by The Abbott).
Hotel Indigo and Fairfax Lofts
Renovation of 12-story Fairfax (then Brookfield) building | 11th St and Baltimore Ave | Cost: $33 million | Architect: Rosemann & Associaties (Kansas City) | General contractor: Rau Construction | Opened December 2017
Boulevard Brewery Visitor Center
2534 Madison Ave | Three-story building renovation of former Skelly Oil Building | Cost: $2.3 million | Opened July 2016
Loews Hotel
16th St and 17th St, Baltimore Ave and Wyandotte Ave | 24-story, 800 room hotel | $322.7 million | Construction begins January 2018, completion March 2020.
Downtown Urban Homes Tour Draws Big Weekend Crowd
By Kevin Collison A pleasant Saturday afternoon coupled with the growing buzz about urban living brought throngs of people downtown to check out open houses at 20 residential projects. This year’s Urban Homes Tour, part of the Downtown Dazzle holiday event, reached its limit of 1,250 pre-registered visitors several days in advance, and many more…
Wide Racial Gap Exists Between Teachers and Students in Jackson County Schools
By Lauren Langdon, Humera Lodhi and Tess Vrbil Janely Griffith Gonzalez realized the disconnect when she chaperoned field trips at Meadow Lane Elementary School in Lee’s Summit. Her 8-year-old daughter was in a class of mostly minority students, but the school had very few minority teachers. On one trip, a student started yelling on the…