OFFICIAL - Commerce Tower

[KCDowntown]

Looks like there was a LCRA teleconfernce today regarding declaring this building and the garage next door blighted.

KCDowntown

[mykn]

Looks like there was a LCRA teleconfernce today regarding declaring this building and the garage next door blighted.

KCDowntown

I wonder if that's the CVS garage or the one North of Commerce Tower? Also, any idea on why someone would want the building & garage declared blighted?

[KCDowntown]

I wonder if that's the CVS garage or the one North of Commerce Tower? Also, any idea on why someone would want the building & garage declared blighted?

It is the CVS garage.

KCDowntown

[KCPowercat]

I wonder if that's the CVS garage or the one North of Commerce Tower? Also, any idea on why someone would want the building & garage declared blighted?

It is the CVS garage.

KCDowntown

weird.

[KCDowntown]

Most of the documentation was about asbestos and lead in the building, plus areas of the building that were not ADA compliant.

KCDowntown

[JBmidtown]

Is there any actual conversion work under way at the moment or is it all still speculative?

[smh]

Is there any actual conversion work under way at the moment or is it all still speculative?

They are relocating tenants. No actual conversion has started yet.

[flyingember]

Is there any actual conversion work under way at the moment or is it all still speculative?

They are relocating tenants. No actual conversion has started yet.

The building move I was involved witn took months to plan and it wasn't 1/3 of a tower

[KCMax]

Neo's Deli has relocated from Commerce Tower to the Commerce Arcade

http://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-co ... 14846.html

[KCDowntown]

It looks like more of this building is going to be turned into market-rate apartments. The latest TIF agenda mentions says that 342 apartments will be built from floors 7-30, this is up from the previously published number of 265.

A grad school and private elementary school will take up floors 3-6.

KCDowntown

[Eon Blue]

During the Q&A at the DNA tour the week before last, the developer said that to their knowledge this would be the largest project in progress downtown by a measure of unit count.

[rxlexi]

Ah, so the grand plans for a "vertical city" of interesting uses starts to morph into a typical office-to-apartment conversion + Park U's already existing satellite graduate program? Expected.

Albeit, I am working with the information presented here, perhaps planning and development continues towards the grander ideas presented initially.

[KCDowntown]

There are renderings of the exterior of this project on pages 152-154 in this packet from tomorrow's TIF meeting. One shows the view from the sidewalk, and two looking down from above.

KCDowntown

[archiKC]

looking at that second rendering upside-down like that really give you a sense of vertigo.

I agree with rxlexi that it is not quite the vertical city that i had expected (see page 148). I was expecting some of the shared, mixed use program interspersed between floors so as to take advantage of various views of the city from different heights, but it is still way more mixed use than most "mixed use" suburb BS that we normally get.

[mister816]

just in case you want the renderings without going through that huge PDF

[moderne]

Hope the unit on the north side at top with the bump out puts in a glass floor.

[archiKC]

haha, yes. Glass floor infinity pool balcony?

[DaveKCMO]

additional TIF approved. will also seek a CID sales tax, which would apply to the tower's retail (and presumably the CVS).

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... ml?ana=twt

[geeman68]

That CVS needs to be a 24 hour store and there needs to be a secondary Walgreens or something in the Crossroads or in City Market

[pash]

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