Revamp 18th and Vine, link east and west KC, city manager says
City Manager Troy Schulte thinks the city should spend $27 million to upgrade 18th and Vine and link the area to the Crossroads.
The city should spend $27.6 million in upgrades at 18th and Vine and try to link it to the prospering Crossroads ...
MGE project on Broadway moves closer to start
In another step forward, a joint city council committee on Wednesday approved a plat for the MGE building project.
The matter goes to the full city council for final approval today.
The council has already approved the project plan to convert ...
Fish, crops and new job skills in urban core?
In the urban core, volunteers are building something that involves everything from gardening to chemistry.
Not to mention fish and lettuce.
On Wednesday, people presented their plan for aquaponics to the city council.
The project taking shape ...
New loan fund begins for urban core projects
Officials today announced the start of a $4 million fund to provide startup loans to urban core projects.
The revolving fund will provide 4 percent loans at two or three-year terms for predevelopment costs such as architectural and financial ...
Westport school redevelopment moves forward with athletic field agreement
One concept for using part of the Westport High School athletic fields for parking while continuing to let the community use them. Presented by Kansas City Sustainable Development Partners at a meeting in March.
The Kansas City school district ...
Can’t sell old school sites? Give them to the city
A city council committee today advanced a proposal that would transfer four former school sites and a former school to the city.
Three of the sites where schools were demolished would become parkland. A fourth, where Chick Elementary had been, ...
Westport High plans depend on community input into parking expansion
Gerald Smith of Plexpod said his company thinks the redeveloped Westport High School would be a perfect site for a co-working space. But developers of the project say their latest plan won’t work unless restrictions on parking in the track ...
Westport High School redevelopers to present revised proposal
Midtown residents, who have shown a great deal of interest in the reuse plans for Westport High School, can get an update on Monday, March 21. The redevelopment group Kansas City Sustainable Development Partners wants to use the track/field ...
Title insurance: An obscure force hampering home sales, a new form of “redlining?”
As the city tries to deal with hundreds of abandoned houses, the refusal of title insurance companies to sign off on bank mortgage loans is a problem here and nationwide.
Officials discussed it Wednesday at a joint meeting of the city council ...
New loan fund to start urban core projects
A joint city council committee on Wednesday advanced city participation in a program to provide startup loans to urban core projects.
The loans would provide for things like architectural drawings, financial consultants and more that are needed ...
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