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^Nutterville is going to have to be demolished if Westport wants to be vibrant self sustaining neighborhood. Its a huge piece to Westport East's growth Are you being serious? If so, you should seek professional help. I'm guessing this was a sarcastic statement, but Nutterville and the surrounding a...

I wonder if we will ever see a proposal for the steeply graded grass lot to the south of Valencia Place. Price Brothers also demolished the Colonial Court apartment complex on the north edge of the Plaza almost 3 years ago. We finally have a rendering for that site, but still no activity. That doesn...

The bizjournal had an interesting tidbit about the material to be used to construct this project in light of the recent fire in OP. I think the brand name is "Prescient" and is basically a pre-fab steel columns. It is a company owned by JE Dunn or maybe just the Dunn family. The proposal ...

A new project just showed up on the city's development tracker map: 4711 Belleview on the west edge of the Plaza. 6 Story, 167 unit apartment building. Designed by everyone's favorite, NSPJ. The building is bland enough and short enough that it hopefully shouldn't offend the "Save Our Plaza&quo...

kboish wrote:They have been excavating for a few months now. Looks like they are getting close to finishing that part and will be ready to go vertical soon.

I think you may be thinking of the office tower site on Pennsylvania. I don't think there is any work going on at this site yet.

I picked up an album recently that has this stamp on it: http://i64.tinypic.com/141tlas.jpg What I find interesting about this (aside from the fact that this would be practically around the corner from my house) is the date stamp of April 1968. The riots in KC after MLK's assassination were on April...

I've always thought that little commercial strip where Sidestreet bar, the limo service, etc. is just off Gillham could be an excellent, small neighborhood retail hub. There are a number of spots like this with the potential for nice little neighborhood retail hubs throughout North Hyde Park and Lo...

Nearby/related: the florist at 31st and Gillham Plaza has closed. Not sure what's going on that space next. That building had been for sale for a while. I assume it has new owners now. It is currently up for rent: https://kansascity.craigslist.org/reb/6034891805.html "In my opinion," Rigb...

Here are some Abbot Properties projects that I noticed listings for: 1608 Locust (office conversion): http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_1920/edc01061ba8f4ec19743ac1ff1ad959c.jpg http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_1920/21f74e2dc49c471fbb5ad19140ae060a.jpg http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_1920/1b43ee4b4c364...

Butch Rigby has purchased another building nearby, the Bitterman's Candy building: http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2017/03/08/butch-rigby-bitterman-candy-gillham-renovation.html The plans sound vague and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see much happen with this building for a while. I...

http://kcur.org/post/while-kansas-city-voters-consider-incentives-some-east-side-development-projects-are-underway This article from Kevin Collison on KCUR's website mentions a development project in the works for 43rd and Troost. I don't recall hearing anything about that. UC-B does have their off...

https://kansascity.craigslist.org/apa/6018533323.html $1500 for a one-bed on Broadway with street-parking? "West Portlandia?" I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Oh good lord. They have actually named the building West Portlandia? I thought you just said that tongue-in-cheek. It ...

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c230/vegas2kc/DEVELOPMENT/Broadway%20westport_zpsazjxjher.jpg The proposed building looks to be wider than the BOA building, so it could actually wrap around it. But now that I see how the facade of the bank building is no longer original, I'm fine with losing it.

Not liking idea of BOA building teardown the more I think about it. Has a lot of character. Other lots need more attention. And they can build on lot next to BOA. I agree. I really wish they could incorporate the BOA building into this development a la the Midwest Hotel project. I also wish they wo...

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2017/02/22/ab-development-partners-troost-project.html I never thought I would see the day Troost would have this much activity Any subscriber want to give us some more details from the article? Looks like this is between 25th and 26th Streets. I've always...

Talked with a few people who have inquired about buildings in the 3100 block of Troost. Apparently, that block is still idle due in part to the crazy high asking prices. A friend thought the owners were deliberately holding the buildings as speculation. There's a lot happening on Troost but the lan...

So I was looking at the website for this project's website (which was concerning for a number of reasons), and found this drawing for the project (which they apparently think is supposed to be in Kansas City, Kansas). This looks like it might just be phase 2, although the garage entrance still seems...

There will be the opening to get to the garage (in phase 2). There is also an "art gallery", which looks like it may be the lobby of the building, but that looks comparatively small. The rest of the first floor is street facing retail. 3 Large spaces (including new space for Char Bar) and ...

The project otherwise wouldn't be so bad if it could accommodate urbane streetfront retail with housing above. I sense this is a suburban minded developer or owner not experienced with developing true pedestrian scale living, integrating seamlessly with rest of Westport, rather than creating an iso...

It's too bad the old Katz building couldn't be saved, but I have heard from other sources that it is just too far gone. I heard the UC-B is also looking at purchasing and rehabbing 911 Linwood as part of this plan. I wonder if they have their eyes on any other nearby properties. It is interesting th...