Plaza apartment demolition: “A line in the sand?”
Originally constructed as the Green Gable Apartments, these three vacant buildings have become the subject of a fight between a developer who proposed to demolish them and preservationists who say the are essential to the fabric of the Country ...
“We are starting to bring Broadway back”
The MGE Building at 34th and Broadway would be converted to housing under a redevelopment proposal.
The City Council has lent its support to a redevelopment idea that could bring 500 new residents to Midtown around 34th and Broadway.
The proposal ...
Plan commission rejects Norman School proposal
With one commissioner calling it a “round peg is a square hole,” the Kansas City Plan Commission today rejected a request to redevelop the Norman School into 64 apartments.
The commission had been asked to approve an Urban Renewal Plan, ...
Whole Foods project moves forward
The city council on Thursday approved a community improvement district for the Whole Foods project.
The 30-year CID a one-cent sales tax in the project area provides funding for needed public improvements, like streetscape and sewer work.
The ...
Diocese dorm project – and controversy – are back
A bitter zoning fight that erupted again Wednesday over plans for religious student apartments on Troost Avenue will continue.
Ed Ford, chair of the city council planning and zoning committee, delayed it until July 15.
He said he wants to meet ...
Do you remember the blocks around the Bancroft School at 4300 Tracy?
A neighborhood grocery store at the southeast corner of Tracy and E. 43rd Street served residents of Manheim Park as early as 1911. In the 1950s the building became a sewing machine store. The store is no longer standing, but this is how in ...
City hosts open house for Beacon Hills rehab opportunity
The first home available for purchase in the Est. KC program. Courtesy City of Kansas City.
Recent college grads, first-time homebuyers, or other potential homeowners – the city has a deal for you.
As part of the new Established in KC (Est. ...
Whole Foods project advances, with praise
As part of the Whole Foods project at 51st and Oak, the Kansas City Young Matrons clubhouse will move to a new site at 52nd and Cherry.
The city expects developers to get input from neighborhoods, but those efforts can sometimes be lackluster.
VanTrust ...
First look at plans for Norman School
Developer Del Hedgepath explained his plans for the Norman School at a neighborhood meeting last night.
Residents of the Valentine neighborhood got a look at plans for a redeveloped Norman School at a meeting last night.
The school located at ...
Renovated Ambassador Apartments offer penthouse views of Midtown
The view from the roof of the Ambassador Apartments stretches north up Broadway to the Kauffman Performing Arts Center.
The view from the top of the historic Ambassador Apartments will soon be available again, and not just for a Caribbean dictator.
Time ...
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