Bitter dispute over religious apartments on Troost continues
A mediation effort did not resolve one of the city’s harshest recent development battles, a proposal to put religious housing on five acres at 53rd and Troost, the city council heard yesterday.
That mediation requested by the council failed, ...
Do you remember neighborhood grocery stores in Midtown?
One of Midtown’s early local grocery stores was Martin’s Market at 1507 W. 47th, seen here in 1940.
Decades ago, Midtown Kansas City had a grocery store in almost every neighborhood. Before the advent of large chain “super ...
Old trolley tracks still under Midtown streets
Reader Jim Torres sent us this photo he took today at 4130 Bell Street. A work crew is digging in the street, and they exposed the old trolley track under the pavement.
Do you remember this block of Gillham and 33rd Street?
Raleigh Arms Apartments, 1940.
When the Raleigh Arms apartments at 3346-50 Gillham first opened in 1909, the owners described the building as modern; in fact, they called it “up to the second.”
In a 1909 advertisement in the Kansas City ...
Coleman’s book invites rediscovery of Midtown – and reimagining of Kansas City
Anyone who knows Midtown Kansas City is going to encounter some pretty familiar places and things – with some slight twists – when reading the book Of Stones and Feathers.
There’s the barely-disguised Nelson Museum of Art with its shuttlecocks ...
39th and Gillham once home to dairy farm on Westport to Independence road
In 1910, as the desire for new “modern” homes in Midtown Kansas City continued, an “old fashioned, two-story” frame home at 39th and Gillham was being prepared to be moved.
The Kansas City Times published this sketch and told the story ...
Valentine’s Day in August at the Uptown Arts Bar
Residents of the Valentine neighborhood and Broadway business people are invited to celebrate Valentine’s Day in August at the Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway, on Friday, Aug. 14 at 5:30 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the Valentine Neighborhood ...
Do you remember the 4300 blocks of Troost and Harrison in South Hyde Park?
The Velvet Freeze Ice Cream shop at 4338 Troost in 1940, one of several dozen Velvet Cream parlors around the city.
There was a day in Kansas City when almost every kid could walk to an ice cream parlor like this one at 4338 Troost. That’s ...
“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, ...
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