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Originally Posted by guesswho
Downtown apartment buildings, charter school project win approval
Kevin Collison
Kansas City Star
April 17, 2014
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/17...approvals.html
  
"Downtown Kansas City scored a triple play Thursday when two apartment projects totaling more than 300 units won incentives necessary to begin work and a plan to double the size of the Crossroads Academy charter school was approved.
The larger of the two apartment proposals is the biggest residential project to date in the West Bottoms area, a 251-unit redevelopment that includes a historic building at 933 Mulberry St. The smaller project is a new 56-unit building in the River Market area.
The Planned Industrial Expansion Authority granted the Reeder Family Trust a 15-year abatement for its project called The View at the West Bottom II.
The $30 million redevelopment plan calls for renovating the nine-story building on Mulberry Street into 189 apartments and two nearby smaller buildings at 1200 and 1218 Union St. into 62 apartments. The abatement is for 95 percent of the new value for 10 years and 50 percent for five."
Rendering from KC Star and photos from loopnet.com
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Great development posts!!
Many of these projects I'm familiar with since I deliver all over the city, but there are several on here I had no idea that are being constructed. This project above, I had no clue about. It's great that perhaps this building will get the ball rolling to transform the West Bottoms into a viable community. The proposal to build a condo next to the Cold Storage lofts in the River Market was a surprise also.
Any word on when we might see a convention center hotel? It's sad that 20 years later after the Bartle Hall expansion, we have nothing on the boards. It's great that we keep building smaller ones, and renovated Crown Park, Muelbach, and the new Marriott is about to break ground, but it's still not enough, and it's frustrating to see us lose potential conventions to other cities due to the lack of hotel rooms!!
