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KCPowercat wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 12:26 pm Baseball stadium moves?

The proposal includes 180 housing units, with 36 units set aside as affordable housing, 50% AMI, above 6,000 sq ft of ground level commercial space.

This proposal was in response to an RFP issued 3/8/2022, due by 4/15/2022, and was selected from 3 respondents.

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 4:50 pm If legitimate, it probably puts the Crossroads site to bed as a possibility for the new baseball stadium.

UMKC Roo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:25 pm Either way they've got to start getting more development going in the E Crossroads. It's beens stagnant and the west is getting all the projects..

DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 9:19 am

UMKC Roo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:25 pm Either way they've got to start getting more development going in the E Crossroads. It's beens stagnant and the west is getting all the projects..

East Crossroads development has been far from stagnant. It's ripe with small-scale adaptive reuses of old industrial spaces that provide a walkable environment when activated. And hardly any of them have needed incentives or parking pedestals.

DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 9:19 am

UMKC Roo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:25 pm Either way they've got to start getting more development going in the E Crossroads. It's beens stagnant and the west is getting all the projects..

East Crossroads development has been far from stagnant. It's ripe with small-scale adaptive reuses of old industrial spaces that provide a walkable environment when activated. And hardly any of them have needed incentives or parking pedestals.

kboish wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 11:50 am

DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 9:19 am

UMKC Roo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 2:25 pm Either way they've got to start getting more development going in the E Crossroads. It's beens stagnant and the west is getting all the projects..

East Crossroads development has been far from stagnant. It's ripe with small-scale adaptive reuses of old industrial spaces that provide a walkable environment when activated. And hardly any of them have needed incentives or parking pedestals.

I thought the city approved an abatement district in east xroads.

Copaken Brooks is pursuing a 14-story apartment project at 1818 Main that is expected to include affordable units, according to a neighbor briefed on the plan.
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The proposal calls for 12 floors of apartments above a two-level garage and would have 112 units, according to Johnson. He also said Copaken Brooks intends to seek incentives to help finance the project through the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
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Currently, the site is occupied by the former Southwest Boulevard State Bank which opened in 1915, and two adjoining properties that had been used as a night club in recent years.
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UMKC Roo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:05 pm My only beef with this project is that it's not removing a surface lot, which we have so many along Main in the Crossroads we need to fill.