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Critical_Mass wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:56 am Does anyone know what is happening on the west side of Oak, behind the recently renovated building that will house the Made In KC flagship and other tenants? It is filled with containers stacked in unusual ways and there is a roof structure like you'd see at a garden nursery. It looks like they're putting together a container village or something, maybe like Iron District, but I have not heard anything.

Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 11:51 am

Critical_Mass wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:56 am Does anyone know what is happening on the west side of Oak, behind the recently renovated building that will house the Made In KC flagship and other tenants? It is filled with containers stacked in unusual ways and there is a roof structure like you'd see at a garden nursery. It looks like they're putting together a container village or something, maybe like Iron District, but I have not heard anything.

You mention that project, but could it perhaps be this? The rendering shows some 2-story shipping container buildings. This is on the east side of Oak.
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/ne ... loper-says

KCKev2 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:13 pm I believe it is the assembly area for this project:

https://fox4kc.com/news/developer-pitch ... ghborhood/

Critical_Mass wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:03 pm

KCKev2 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:13 pm I believe it is the assembly area for this project:

https://fox4kc.com/news/developer-pitch ... ghborhood/

I would be very surprised if that was the case since that site is a mile and a half away

Exact Partners LLC is partnering with MSG Investments of Prairie Village to kick off a mixed-use conversion of the Aines Farm Dairy Building at 3130 Gillham Road.

Starting in the fall, the joint venture seeks to build 52 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments and an approximately 10,000-square-foot neighborhood grocery store in the building, to be renamed the Aines Dairy Lofts.

Concurrently, Exact will carry out several upgrades around four commercial establishments it owns at Martini Corner, 31st Street and Gillham. In September 2019, the partnership of Denver developer Ilan Salzberg and Kansas City architect Caleb Buland acquired a row of retail properties in a $2.65 million multiparcel sale, according to Jackson County property records.

Exact now is revisiting plans for 3,844 square feet of elevated outdoor patio space with catwalks connected in front of the Brick House KC, Sol Cantina and Cliff's Taphouse restaurants. A yard game terrace also would top a new covered patio to be built behind Brick House KC.

Two small two-story retail buildings are planned along the row — conceptualized as a drive-thru coffee and salon behind Brick House KC, and spin and yoga studios behind Sol Cantina, across from Hitch Fit Gym.

And catty-corner to the businesses, southeast of 31st and Gillham, Exact seeks to partner with Create Church, the owners of the El Torreon building, for an event space renovation in the 1927 building.

The venue hosted large dances and jazz ensembles in the 1930s and '40s; a roller-skating rink in the '50s and '60s; rock 'n' roll acts like Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa and Van Morrison in the 1970s; and hardcore punk gigs in the '90s and 2000s. The two-story building can be rented for weddings, business gatherings, and art and music shows.

Exact's pitch would see El Torreon's upper ballroom renovated to support those uses, as well as a focus on local and national music tours. The building's lower level would see five new small business incubator spaces.

Buland said Exact's new projects, plus its 2019 multifamily conversion of an endangered Acme Cleansing Co. building at 3200 Gillham, will bring his firm to about $45 million invested in the Union Hill area. The Aines Dairy Lofts and nearby restaurant upgrades will help forge a walkable district, with daytime business conventions and speakers at the future event space able to gin up traffic for existing businesses on 31st Street, he said.

Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:25 pm Exact Partners hopes to knit together 31st, Gillham block with apartments, event space

Exact Partners LLC is partnering with MSG Investments of Prairie Village to kick off a mixed-use conversion of the Aines Farm Dairy Building at 3130 Gillham Road.

Starting in the fall, the joint venture seeks to build 52 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments and an approximately 10,000-square-foot neighborhood grocery store in the building, to be renamed the Aines Dairy Lofts.

History of that building.

http://midtownkcpost.com/gillham-buildi ... -milk-day/

FangKC wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:53 pm The last news on it was that the building would be demolished for a new project.

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=21085&p=613453&hil ... ze#p613453

Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:25 pm
More about the proposed event space...

And catty-corner to the businesses, southeast of 31st and Gillham, Exact seeks to partner with Create Church, the owners of the El Torreon building, for an event space renovation in the 1927 building.
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Exact's pitch would see El Torreon's upper ballroom renovated to support those uses, as well as a focus on local and national music tours. The building's lower level would see five new small business incubator spaces.

KCtoBrooklyn wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:05 am There is a proposal to build 18 townhomes (slated to be rentals) on the vacant lots on Oak St, between 31st and Linwood. This was most recently the shipping container staging area.