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.
In 2010, Randy Kietzman told Hoffman he should come develop single-family homes in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, where the Kietzmans had been designing and building.
A covenant requiring all new Beacon Hill homes to be at least 1,800 square feet meant sale prices in the $300,000s — a big gamble in a redevelopment area on the historically impoverished side of Troost Avenue. But Hoffman bought seven lots in Beacon Hill.
"His own daughter said, 'You're crazy,'" Carlton said of his wife, Lynn Hoffman Carlton, and she isn't exactly an uninformed source, having worked as an urban planner with Sasaki Associates Inc. and HOK.
"I said somebody's got to be the pioneer," Hoffman said.
Since then, UC-B Properties has completed and sold five Beacon Hill homes on the original seven lots Hoffman bought near 24th Street and Forest Avenue. Homes are under construction on the other two original lots. And UC-B, which has shifted to doing its own single-family construction, has bought five more lots in the neighborhood.
In addition, UC-B has bought property on the north side of 27th Street, just north of Longfellow, for the development of five or six 1,200-square-foot townhomes to sell.
FangKC wrote:The apartments along E. 27th are taking shape.
All construction activity appears to have stopped on the colonade apartments. I haven't seen any work being done on them in several weeks, and they aren't finished.
FangKC wrote:
All construction activity appears to have stopped on the colonade apartments. I haven't seen any work being done on them in several weeks, and they aren't finished.
More like several months. I go by these most days and nothing is happening. They put up the fence and abandoned it.
Based on my reading of that, it seems like it's more "this is the most we can build without structured parking" which I don't have too big of an issue with. It's all 1 parking spot/unit and all the retail/office parking spots are shared with residential.
What I do have an issue with is the current condition of the Alana Apartment Hotel. How can the city let a building it's marketing fall into such disrepair? It's got graffiti all over it and you have to criss cross the sidewalk to avoid all the giant weeds.
