Condos - 1517-19 Main

[DaveKCMO]

proposed condos -- yes, actual condos, i'm told -- in what's now a payday loan shop and probably the two adjacent parcels (another small building and surface lot). no permit activity, but there's a zoning compliance letter from july 2015.

[DaveKCMO]

here's the company that appears to be tied to that zoning compliance request: http://www.magnaproperties.com/

[earthling]

Hmm, a property manager from Indiana that has some below avg properties, none urbane and none are hi-rise or even mid-rise (at least shown on website). Would be good to see surface lots filled but hopefully they do a higher quality pedestrian friendly urbane project than the properties they currently have on their website.

[atticus23]

Those apartments are terrible looking...

[mister816]

i have faith in our city. we will not let anything like the trash in those photos anywhere near our downtown.

[earthling]

It may take action rather than faith to prevent possible shitty projects and this property mgr is a red flag. The Xroads Association will need to stay on top of this one and maybe prepare a preemptive strike of influence.

[missingkc]

A brief web search gives me hope. As this company is only 11 years old and all their properties look a lot older than 11 years, they don't seem to be responsible for their designs. As owner/managers, the properties appear in photos and Google maps to be well-maintained. The Indianapolis chapter of the BBB lists one closed complaint from the last three years.

None of that says anything about their taste in urban design, but they don't seem to be slum lords or fly-by-nights.

[earthling]

The streetcar line deserves top notch urbane design even if responsible property managers. That is, street level retail space at a minimum, pedestrian friendly and ideally configured for future developments contiguously connected next to it. If not already, DNA and Xroads Association plan needs highest level urbane design guidelines at street level for especially for streetcar line projects.

Maybe this developer 'gets it' but if I were in Xroads Association, I'd be making suggestions or provide ideal guildelines before they even start on a design.

[DaveKCMO]

The streetcar line deserves top notch urbane design even if responsible property managers. That is, street level retail space at a minimum, pedestrian friendly and ideally configured for future developments contiguously connected next to it. If not already, DNA and Xroads Association plan needs highest level urbane design guidelines at street level for especially for streetcar line projects.

Maybe this developer 'gets it' but if I were in Xroads Association, I'd be making suggestions or provide ideal guildelines before they even start on a design.

they've got to return my call first.

[DaveKCMO]

8 units, helix is involved, prices around $1 million (not sure if i believe that or not).

[smh]

8 units, helix is involved, prices around $1 million (not sure if i believe that or not).

Someone at the CCA should ask this developer not to park vehicles next to the fence that already takes up the parking lane. Noticed today that due to a truck unloading items for the development the street was down to one lane very close to the Truman intersection.

[DaveKCMO]

payday loan place moved out of 1517 (exported to midtown!). "magna properties" is now the owner of both parcels.

[DaveKCMO]

here's the company that appears to be tied to that zoning compliance request: http://www.magnaproperties.com/

looks like this is the wrong magna properties (which is an inc, not LLC)

https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/B ... ID=3712729

the same name? http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... vices.html

[mykn]

payday loan place moved out of 1517 (exported to midtown!).

Great, just what midtown needs. Could you send a few vape shops our way?

[JLowe2018]

Dang it...

two small buildings at 1517 and 1519 Main. He plans to tear them down and build a nine-unit luxury condominium building.

“I want to bring suburban living to an urban site, with covered garages and privacy.”

From the Star today. Some details have finally been revealed about the project. Here's a link to the full article.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/business ... 16842.html

[KCPowercat]

Not the location for that type of development.

[shinatoo]

He said he was still debating asking for incentives. If he does he should be rejected just for that statement. There is already plenty of suburban living, in the suburbs and downtown. We don't need tax incentives for it.

[flyingember]

Paying too much should never be a reason to get incentives. It's more a reason to not buy the property.

[TheBigChuckbowski]

Does this meet the GDAP recommendations?

[DaveKCMO]

Does this meet the GDAP recommendations?

For height, yes. If ground floor is an active use, yes. Current zoning is DX-15, which is flexible. If the parking is accessed through the alley, I don't see the concern. It's denser and hardly more suburban than City Homes. The project is three small parcels, two of which are crappy low-rise commercial and one is a crappy surface lot. The lot at the corner of 16th & Main is a separate development, so is sandwiched between that and Calvert's.