Discuss items in the urban core outside of Downtown as described above. Everything in the core including the east side (18th & Vine area), Northeast, Plaza, Westport, Brookside, Valentine, Waldo, 39th street, & the entire midtown area.
4 JE 25. Case No. 14595-MPD - About 0.73 acres generally located at the southeast corner of E 34th Terrace and Main Street and also an area north of E 34th Terrace and about 140 feet east of Main Street, to consider rezoning from District R-1.5 (Residential 1.5) and District B 4-5 (Heavy business commercial (dash 5)) to District MPD (Master Planned Development District) and approval of a development plan that serves as a Preliminary Plat for a retail and residential building for 80 units and parking lot.
Applicant: Mac Properties, repr. Husch Blackwell, LP
4 JE 26. SD 1522 -- Preliminary Plat, 34 + Main, About 0.73 acres generally located at the southeast corner of E 34th Terrace and Main Street and also an area north of E 34th Terrace and about 140 feet east of Main Street, to consider the approval of a preliminary plat in District MPD (Master Planned Development District) for two lots for a retail and residential building for 76 units and parking lot
Applicant: Silliman Group, repr SK Design Group, Inc.
Overall, that parcel includes the former Interstate Bakeries Building on Armour, just west of Foreign Language Academy, and there is a renovation permit attached to it.
Fun fact - the grassy lot on the SE corner of 34th Terrace and Main used to contain a simple one story brick building that was demolished a few years ago - according to some sources, this was the Hostess test kitchen where the Twinkie was born.
All of this property was previously controlled by Hostess/Interstate Bakeries.
Also, based on the address of 12 E Armour LLC, it appears this is a MAC properties development, as it is the same address as the owner of Clyde Manor, Bellerive, etc.
voltopt wrote:Also, based on the address of 12 E Armour LLC, it appears this is a MAC properties development, as it is the same address as the owner of Clyde Manor, Bellerive, etc.
40 N DEAN ST 2ND FLR
ENGLEWOOD, NJ 07631
Yeah, it says the applicants are Mac Properties and the Silliman Group, which is an arm of Mac. I haven't heard anything about this development.
If Mac does have redevelopment plans for that area, I hope they include the Burger King site. It takes up way too much space - nearly an entire block of what should be fairly prime real estate.
The Chicago-based development group, which includes Silliman Group LLC and Antheus Capital, is now working on a three-phase, $25 million redevelopment project that will add 182 market-rate apartments, 32,500 square feet of retail and office space, and more than 350 parking spaces near Armour Boulevard and Main Street.
Love the building, and especially like that they are showing confidence in Main and opening directly onto the Main sidewalk. This area has a long ways to go. The new building would neighbor a smoke shop, burger king, and a title loan office across the street.
Wow, looks great - and makes the Burger King look even worse. I'm not sure I'd want to pay what will likely be fairly high rent to overlook a BK drive through. One of the most interesting aspects of this project to me is that there will be 84 apartments, 2,500 sq ft of retail and only 54 parking spaces (and I don't think there is much convenient on-street parking nearby). They may be betting on the streetcar extension happening relatively soon.
Main Street apartment building will be unlike any other in Kansas City
A concrete frame is curing at 3435 Main St., ready to accept delivery next month of about 100 modules that will become Kansas City’s first factory-built apartment building.
When stacked to a five-story height, the building will comprise 80 apartments ready to accept tenants in February 2017.
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The modules, with exterior panels made of an aluminum composite, currently are under construction in a Champion Home Builders factory in Nebraska. When delivered, they will be stacked atop the concrete pad that now separates the first and second floors.
“We’ve seen these apartments work successfully in Brooklyn and in Denver,” Cassel said, “We’re looking forward to introducing them in Kansas City.”
The building’s sleek gray-and-white exterior will look substantially different from historic structures in the neighborhood on floors two through five. The first floor, though, will have brick masonry walls and a glass storefront.
The building is being outfitted with the infrastructure to allow for a restaurant facing Main Street. The back part of the ground floor will be for resident parking.
The project will have a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments. Cassel said the units’ square footage generally will be larger than apartments found in rehabbed midtown buildings. Average apartment sizes in the area are 465 square feet for studios, 672 square feet for one bedrooms, and 917 square feet for two bedrooms.