Midtown Area Apartment Boom

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.
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Midtown Area Apartment Boom

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While most of the headline grabbing apartment growth of the last few years has been Downtown, it looks like the Midtown/Plaza area is about to go through an apartment building boom. Midtown has had some construction the last few years (a couple big buildings by the Plaza, all of the Mac Properties work, and finishing up Union Hill), it looks like what we may see over the next couple years could dwarf that).

Here is the list of projects that I can think of. I know a few of these projects may be question marks, but I think most of them have a good chance of being built. Let me know if there are any I am missing:

Westport Area:
Opus Westport - 256 Units + retail.
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Westport Manor Square Apartments+ hotel -191 units
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West 39th St Apartments - 46 units
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3260 Main - 82 units + retail
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Norman School - 61 units
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Congress Building -45 units
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The Netherland and Monarch - 152 units + 3 stories of senior apartments (unspecified units), retail, and event space
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3700 Block of Main - Rehab of two long-vacant 4 Plex buildings - 8 units
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KCAI Living Center -250 beds
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Midtown Plaza (MGE building reuse+ new construction) 335 units + retail in 4 phases
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Plaza Area:
4600 Madison on the Plaza: 247 units
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46 Summit on the Plaza - 70 units
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Dylan 4711 Belleview - 170 units
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Artisan Apartments, Southmoreland - 98 units
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Mirabelle Apartments - North Plaza -101 units in 2 phases
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The Tudors - North Plaza - 16 townhouses
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Whole Foods + Apartments by UMKC - 170 units
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44th and Washington - 188 units
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44 Belle - 138 units + retail
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Legacy Crown Point - 6 units


Troost Area:

Mac Properties Armour and Troost - 372 units + retail
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27th and Troost - 185 units + retail
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Linwood and Troost - UC-B - 89 units
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Wonder Lofts on Troost - 86 units + retail and office. Under Construction
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55 Troost - 47 units
Scholars Row -5220 Troost - 41 units
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Colonnades at Beacon Hill - 30 units
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3 Duplexes in Hyde Park with 3-bed units - 6 units
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25th and Troost - 248 units in 10 buildings, plus 1 commercial space
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Armour Blvd
Red Cross building conversion by MAC - 61 units
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Mac Properties Armour and Cherry - 111 units
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Union Hill -ish - area:

31 Levy in Longfellow: 123 Units + retail.
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Gallerie in Union Hill/South of Crown Center: 423 units + retail.
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Acme Cleaning building on Linwood - 19 units
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Total: 4,468 units

Dead
25th and Troost - 350 units -replaced by a different development
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North Plaza Hotel/Apartment/Retail project - 132 units - apartment portion removed, will now be 2 hotel buildings
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Delete the 31 Levy on Union Hill
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Is that for certain? I've heard conflicting reports with some saying they are still working on getting it together?
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I’m pretty sure Midtown Plaza is dead. There’s been no updates for a long time and I haven’t seen any permit activity in awhile. Anyone know differently?
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Believe the 25/Troost project is dead; MAC at Armour is closer to 300 units; UCB at Linwood is probably dead.
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Thinking about buying an investment property at 36th/Wyandotte (between Main and Broadway).

Do you all think the area will continue to develop into a thriving area or stay more of a block to block neighborhood?

Also -- is the streetcar to UMKC (or some type of extension) actually going to happen? Confused by the election results and this will influence a lot of things.
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grecobs wrote:Thinking about buying an investment property at 36th/Wyandotte (between Main and Broadway).

Do you all think the area will continue to develop into a thriving area or stay more of a block to block neighborhood?

Also -- is the streetcar to UMKC (or some type of extension) actually going to happen? Confused by the election results and this will influence a lot of things.
The streetcar will help overall. Even indirect areas will get value. If 500 new jobs appear in the four miles because businesses like the train those won't be filled only by people riding the streetcar or living three blocks away.

As to happening there's two major steps left that isn't city council driven:
The tax approval election and finding matching funding. Once it's fully funded things will be clearer.
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grecobs wrote:Thinking about buying an investment property at 36th/Wyandotte (between Main and Broadway).

Do you all think the area will continue to develop into a thriving area or stay more of a block to block neighborhood?

Also -- is the streetcar to UMKC (or some type of extension) actually going to happen? Confused by the election results and this will influence a lot of things.
We bought a house on this block last year. We are hoping the streetcar is going to improve development. Also, there are like 5 gay couples in houses in the blocks surrounding...so thats a good sign right? (including us :D)
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3260 Main, West 39th, and Acme Cleaning all received the requested tax abatements:
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... ments.html
grecobs wrote:Thinking about buying an investment property at 36th/Wyandotte (between Main and Broadway).

Do you all think the area will continue to develop into a thriving area or stay more of a block to block neighborhood?

Also -- is the streetcar to UMKC (or some type of extension) actually going to happen? Confused by the election results and this will influence a lot of things.
I will defer to the streetcar experts like Dave, but they all seem to be planning on the extension still happening. Perhaps they are just being optimistic, but I will believe them (optimistically).

Even without the streetcar extension, I don't see any reason why that area wouldn't continue to improve. With the streetcar it will happen more rapidly and drastically.

Mac's renovation of the buildings of the buildings on Armour and Wyandotte is a great addition to that area. Same with the renovation of the apartment buildings at 38th and Main. There are plans for construction of townhouses on one of the vacant lots nearby. Warwick has also undergone a pretty significant transformation over the last few years with a number of rundown, under-occupied, low-rent apartment buildings being renovated.
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3260 Main developers are also talking about redeveloping the Mattress Store site at 38th and Main and making a mixed use development similar to 3260 Main. If this happens I really think it will cause a domino affect and other stuff starts going away like the shady Shell Station and hopefully the Plasma Center
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Development and business will boom. It's a true irony that people complain about traffic and surface parking. The ability to free yourself from your car is such a selling point and it will draw so many people and businesses to the line.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/f5/5f ... c0db5a.jpg

Check out the photo. It's not an accident that Northern Virginia is dense and vibrant right along the Orange Line. None of that was there in the 70s. Connecting people always drives growth. It's shocking to me how far behind we are on this.
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grecobs wrote:Also -- is the streetcar to UMKC (or some type of extension) actually going to happen? Confused by the election results and this will influence a lot of things.
yes. it's just a matter of when. the biggest hurdle was (and will always be) local funding. while there is one more election to go, it would be nearly impossible to lose at this point given past election results.
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capitolwildcat wrote:Development and business will boom. It's a true irony that people complain about traffic and surface parking. The ability to free yourself from your car is such a selling point and it will draw so many people and businesses to the line.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/f5/5f ... c0db5a.jpg

Check out the photo. It's not an accident that Northern Virginia is dense and vibrant right along the Orange Line. None of that was there in the 70s. Connecting people always drives growth. It's shocking to me how far behind we are on this.
None of that was there in the 70s but neither were Lobbyists and a massive expansion of the gov't, those things really put that kind of growth in hyperdrive
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brewcrew1000 wrote:3260 Main developers are also talking about redeveloping the Mattress Store site at 38th and Main and making a mixed use development similar to 3260 Main. If this happens I really think it will cause a domino affect and other stuff starts going away like the shady Shell Station and hopefully the Plasma Center
That's great to hear about the Mattress Store site! Although I would hope the developer would consider a different architect, or change up the design from their current two developments which look very similar.

Unfortunately, I think the Shell and the Plasma Center might be some of the last dominoes to fall. They both seem to be doing fine business and wouldn't have much of a motivation to sell. The Plasma Center looks like it had some renovations done not long ago. The Shell doesn't have to be "shady". As more and more buildings get renovated and positive developments go in, the Shell will hopefully improve.

A spot that seems prime for redevelopment is the Missouri Title Loans shack and lot on the 3700 block of Main. That site and the Cash America Pawn building (which is up for sale) are high on my list of likely redevelopment candidates for that stretch of Main.
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midtown is full of look-a-like homes and apartment buildings (which we cherish, now that they've aged). why so much fuss when new projects resemble each other?
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Eh, I don't really think it's worth making a fuss over, but if I had my druthers, I would prefer some variety in the designs (especially because I think their current two proposals aren't particularly attractive). Although I would happily take that same design over a mattress store.

With the current plan for two buildings, I don't care too much that they are similar, but if they are already considering a 3rd (and who knows how many more in the future), I would prefer that they have some variety.
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brewcrew1000 wrote:
capitolwildcat wrote:Development and business will boom. It's a true irony that people complain about traffic and surface parking. The ability to free yourself from your car is such a selling point and it will draw so many people and businesses to the line.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/f5/5f ... c0db5a.jpg

Check out the photo. It's not an accident that Northern Virginia is dense and vibrant right along the Orange Line. None of that was there in the 70s. Connecting people always drives growth. It's shocking to me how far behind we are on this.
None of that was there in the 70s but neither were Lobbyists and a massive expansion of the gov't, those things really put that kind of growth in hyperdrive
That's true. Nothing occurs in a vacuum. Downtown KC may actually be a better example of growth driven largely by the transportation. In either case, the more important point is that the both transportation projects concentrated development that would have otherwise continued to sprawl.
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I updated the original post here to add The Netherlands/Monarch, 44 Belle, Mac Properties at Armour and Cherry. Changed number of units on Armour and Troost to the latest plan and moved Midtown Plaza and 25th and Troost into a new "Probably Dead" category.

Also working on adding pics.
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Add the Uptown Shoppes redevelopment.

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KCtoBrooklyn wrote:I updated the original post here to add The Netherlands/Monarch, 44 Belle, Mac Properties at Armour and Cherry. Changed number of units on Armour and Troost to the latest plan and moved Midtown Plaza and 25th and Troost into a new "Probably Dead" category.

Also working on adding pics.
well done. lots going on.
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