Dean Building - 37th & Main

[DaveKCMO]

looks like this long-neglected property is getting some love...

Case No. 678-S ? Less than one acre generally located at the northeast corner of 37th Street and Main Street ? to consider the approval of the OH Dean Building ?353? project for the RW Redevelopment Corporation, for the redevelopment and rehabilitation of the neighborhood as provided in the Urban Redevelopment Corporation Law of the State of Missouri (Chapter 353, R.S.Mo.1978, as amended). Information distributed.

from a DNR press release regarding its nomination to the national historic register...

The Oliver H. Dean Building was constructed in 1916 from a design by prominent Kansas City architect Henry Ford Hoit. The Dean Building, a two-story commercial building that housed a grocery store for its first two decades, was erected during a period of urban expansion along Main Street between downtown Kansas City and J. C. Nichols' Country Club Plaza. The building features prominent terra cotta tiles and numerous window openings (currently covered with aggregate panels for security) in its primary elevation. Although a relatively minor work for Hoit, the Dean Building exemplifies the enframed window wall design, a dwindling property type.

[LenexatoKCMO]

Would probably look like a pretty nice building w/out all of that beige plywood over the windows and storefronts. 

[Midtownkid]

This a great news!  I expected it to get torn down like the rest of Main.  It is a very hansom building that just needs a little work.

[ignatius]

Should look good again if they do the windows well.  Too bad the contiguous fabric on either side is all ripped out.  Looks all alone.

So is it planned for retail, warehouse, office?

[zonk]

tax abatement?

[taxi]

Rieves Weideman plumbing supply is moving here. Doubt there will be that substantial of a rehab, it's likely to be mostly warehousing.

[Midtownkid]

Damn.  I could see that as a nice restaurant or modern furniture store...or even a grocery store as it started out as.  I neighborhood may not be ideal for those things, but this could start a trend to fix up Main.  

[LenexatoKCMO]

Well even a storefront plumbing supply outfit would be better than its current use.  Any chance it will be more retail-ish and less warehouse-ish?

[Thaine]

One of the Weidemann's is an architect.  he and his wife have owned the Dime Store in Brookside for a few years.

[LindseyLohan]

Well even a storefront plumbing supply outfit would be better than its current use.  Any chance it will be more retail-ish and less warehouse-ish?

Reeves Wiedeman is moving their HQ from Lenexa and into this space. Nov. of 2010.

[dangerboy]

Official news of the relocation: http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansa ... ily37.html

[unclejay]

One of the Weidemann's is an architect.  he and his wife have owned the Dime Store in Brookside for a few years.

I think the plumbing supplier is unrelated to the architect. Just share a name.

[kcjak]

Sounds promising - with a renovation budget of $2.5 million and Helix involved, you can hope that this will turn out great.  I mean 'Screw KCMO for stealing a company from Kansas!!' 

[Thaine]

I think the plumbing supplier is unrelated to the architect. Just share a name.

The architect may not be moving in there, but it is the same family.  I went to school with him.

[moderne]

Getting any business to move to the derelict stretch of Main between Linwood and 43rd is a triumph.

[LindseyLohan]

I spoke to the CFO for a few minutes a week ago. Contributing to the renewal of our core sounded like one of the major motives for the move. There is a guy at Helix actually named Reeve Wiedeman. Strange...

[Thaine]

Not so strange.  The plumbing supply company was started by his great grandfather.