Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Oh no! With the renovation of the El Torreon and all the other activity over there, this seems like a prime place for a new apartment building with more restaurant patios etc. What a waste of real estate.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
I always thought that was a strange location for a plumbing fittings distributor warehouse.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Kansas City: Capital of Transit-Accessible Storage Space
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
I wonder if some other storage place has been/was purchased along the streetcar line and they are moving to this site?
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
The Made In KC Cafe was sold and will become a location for Prefix Coffee
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Honestly with the El Torreon news, it's maybe a silver lining that there will be fewer residents sixty feet from the concert venue who will complain about the noise until it's forced to close.Midtownkid wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:08 am Oh no! With the renovation of the El Torreon and all the other activity over there, this seems like a prime place for a new apartment building with more restaurant patios etc. What a waste of real estate.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
I wonder why we don’t have special regulations in the city for storage places? They always seem to be on prime pieces of real estate and end up being a speed bump on walkable development. I’m thinking of the spots at Armour & main, Main &31st and others.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
The newer locations of storage places are a puzzle. However, the older multi-story ones like Linwood and Main, Troost and Armour, and Benton and Independence Avenue were built on streetcar lines when there were fewer cars. People often didn't have the storage in their homes that they do now. As odd as it sounds now, people swapped wardrobes in winter and summer and moved the out-of-season wardrobe to storage because they didn't have closets (or very small ones) in many houses and apartments and kept their clothes in armoires and chests of drawers only. Storage along streetcar lines was useful because that is how many people got around. Essentially, they were renting off-season closets at these places.
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I assumed the older ones were document storage before modern use of computers. Interesting about clothes storage though.
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https://www.allamericanstoragereno.com/ ... -in-closetbeautyfromashes wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:51 am I assumed the older ones were document storage before modern use of computers. Interesting about clothes storage though.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Pre-demolition and a few utility cutoff permits were issued this week for the Levy/506 E 31st.iamrealz wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:52 amNew Biz Journal story says - Construction will start in mid-September on the Levy at Martini Corner and wrap up in December 2024.iamrealz wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 12:22 pmI don't have any insider knowledge, but the ordinance vacating the alley and the stamped plans were upload to compass on 5/22/23. Garrison updated the page linked above with new construction dates: (August 15, 2023 – completion October 2024). So there may be some hope?SHPNeighbor wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 7:51 am
Anyone heard any updates on this project? The existing property doesn't look like any sort of demolition has started.
On the flip side, I see workers at the Aines Dairy project moving this along on schedule.
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... surge.html
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Construction fences have been put up for the Levy project at 31st and Gillham. Good to see this taking the first visible step of progress.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Anyone have drawings or a rendering of this project? I'm curious what the ground floor looks like (as always).
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Thanks!KCtoBrooklyn wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:20 amThese are from October 2020, but from what I can tell, there haven't been any updated plans released:
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
The Levy, Aines Dairy, and NortPoint/Park Reserve projects were all brought up at last night's Union Hill neighborhood association meeting.
While nothing new (at least to anyone on here) was mentioned, it was pointed out that there will be a total of 586 new apartments along/near 31st between Baltimore and Gillham by 2025.
While nothing new (at least to anyone on here) was mentioned, it was pointed out that there will be a total of 586 new apartments along/near 31st between Baltimore and Gillham by 2025.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
Coming down rapidly. Have such mixed emotions, glad to see that allowed to blight corner that besmirched the entire neighborhood to come down. Sad to see a good brick and terra cotta building lost. Incorporating in would have made a finer grained development. Almost any pre WWII building is better than current Paint Your Wagon, No Name City construction.
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Re: Martini Corner near 31st/Gilham
This is on the CPC docket for next Tuesday. The staff recommends denial, so there is still hope that we see a better use for this building.Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 7:29 pm The building at 3122-40 Gillham Plaza is to be turned into a self storage place. What a loser of a project.
https://compasskc.kcmo.org/EnerGov_Prod ... 3dcca46ae9
It don't see the record of the sale of this building on the county website, so perhaps it is still pending and pushback from CPC could kill the deal. It seemed like Exact might have been interested in this building. I would much rather see them do something with it.