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Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:52 am
by flyingember
chingon wrote:I don't understand why they don't just build 1000 more things just like that everywhere.
zoning
you can answer why almost entirely with density limits and setback requirements
so much of the density, TOD, etc problems come down only to zoning
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:51 pm
by smh
Forgive my ignorance, but are these new construction?
EDIT: The Colonnades, that is.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:23 pm
by Eon Blue
smh wrote:Forgive my ignorance, but are these new construction?
EDIT: The Colonnades, that is.
The three eastern ones are. The far west one is a rehab.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:57 pm
by smh
Eon Blue wrote:smh wrote:Forgive my ignorance, but are these new construction?
EDIT: The Colonnades, that is.
The three eastern ones are. The far west one is a rehab.
So did they tear down the others? Google suggests there were 3 standing on this block.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:35 pm
by Eon Blue
Yeah, I guess they were beyond hope.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:47 pm
by KCtoBrooklyn
They were going to rehab the other colonnades, but a fire destroyed them not too long ago.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 4:11 pm
by TheBigChuckbowski
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... t&page=all
In 2010, Randy Kietzman told Hoffman he should come develop single-family homes in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, where the Kietzmans had been designing and building.
A covenant requiring all new Beacon Hill homes to be at least 1,800 square feet meant sale prices in the $300,000s — a big gamble in a redevelopment area on the historically impoverished side of Troost Avenue. But Hoffman bought seven lots in Beacon Hill.
"His own daughter said, 'You're crazy,'" Carlton said of his wife, Lynn Hoffman Carlton, and she isn't exactly an uninformed source, having worked as an urban planner with Sasaki Associates Inc. and HOK.
"I said somebody's got to be the pioneer," Hoffman said.
Since then, UC-B Properties has completed and sold five Beacon Hill homes on the original seven lots Hoffman bought near 24th Street and Forest Avenue. Homes are under construction on the other two original lots. And UC-B, which has shifted to doing its own single-family construction, has bought five more lots in the neighborhood.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:35 am
by FangKC
And also from the article:
In addition, UC-B has bought property on the north side of 27th Street, just north of Longfellow, for the development of five or six 1,200-square-foot townhomes to sell.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:31 pm
by FangKC
Another new foundation being poured on the west side of Forest Court.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:33 pm
by FangKC
Another new foundation being poured on the east side of Forest Court.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:38 pm
by FangKC
Finished house on the NW corner of Beacon Hill Lane and Tracy Avenue.
New foundation being poured directly north of this house on west side of Tracy Avenue.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:42 pm
by FangKC
New house being constructed on the east side of Tracy Avenue just south of E. 24th Street.
On this lot.
The renovation on the older house to the right also seems to have been completed.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:49 pm
by FangKC
This new house on the east side of Tracy Avenue just north of Beacon Hill Lane (E. 25th Street) is almost completed.
On this lot.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:54 pm
by FangKC
This new house is being constructed on the SE corner of E. 26th and Tracy.
On this lot.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:58 pm
by FangKC
FangKC wrote:The houses at E. 26th and Tracy on the NW corner are almost completed.
Two more houses are being added north of these new houses (shown above) on the west side of Tracy Avenue at E. 26th Street.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 10:07 pm
by FangKC
FangKC wrote:The apartments along E. 27th are taking shape.
All construction activity appears to have stopped on the colonade apartments. I haven't seen any work being done on them in several weeks, and they aren't finished.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:45 am
by missingkc
Wow - that's a lot of activity. That neighborhood is really coming together. Thanks for all the pics under all the topics, Fang.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:19 pm
by TheBigChuckbowski
FangKC wrote:
All construction activity appears to have stopped on the colonade apartments. I haven't seen any work being done on them in several weeks, and they aren't finished.
More like several months. I go by these most days and nothing is happening. They put up the fence and abandoned it.
Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:34 pm
by pash
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Re: Beacon Hill
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:34 pm
by TheBigChuckbowski
Based on my reading of that, it seems like it's more "this is the most we can build without structured parking" which I don't have too big of an issue with. It's all 1 parking spot/unit and all the retail/office parking spots are shared with residential.
What I do have an issue with is the current condition of the Alana Apartment Hotel. How can the city let a building it's marketing fall into such disrepair? It's got graffiti all over it and you have to criss cross the sidewalk to avoid all the giant weeds.
