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they need to name some tenants soon...look at what I'm doin to myself
!I can live with 17 stories.

Nice, so any bets on when the "second" res tower will be anounced?

Actually I hope they wait a little while...as much as I like as much development as possible, seems like a lot is opening soon, let's make sure not to flood the area with housing (which I think right now the chance of that is slim to none)

KCPowercat wrote:17 story tower is the first residential building????? hell yeah

http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansa ... st=b_ln_hl

great news. if we're lucky the 2nd residential tower will be over 20 stories

Has anybody said where this first tower will go?

The Jones Store block (#110).

I'd like to see towers along the south edge of the district first. So that way when you're in the district you have tall buildings as a backdrop pretty much in every direction.

yeah I wouldn't mind it along 14th either...hell I don't care where it goes.

KCPowercat wrote:yeah I wouldn't mind it along 14th either...hell I don't care where it goes.

I guess it would be best to see the Jones Store cleared out and redeveloped first. . . start north and work toward 670. I'd rather see the undeveloped ground next to 670 instead of big holes in the middle of downtown. At this point the Jones Store just needs to go. It represents a major psychological barrier between the P&L district and the center of downtown-- walking past that thing is depressing.

either way the jones store is coming down along with 14th street blocks...they are setting up each of the blocks for future housing so it just depends on where they want to build first....sounds like the Jones store has won out

I sure would make the KC Live buildings look more urban and they would blend into the downtown fabric much better if they were part of taller buildings, but I'll take either location.

I just hope the rest of the towers get built, many projects like this never make it past the first phase.

The first residential tower is for sure going on the Jones Store block, projected to open in 2007. The rest of the residential, south of 14th Street, is planned for a future phase or phases. (There will just be surface lots there in the first phase.)

I think it would be cool if they had skywalks that link all the high rise seidential towers together.

KansasCityCraka wrote:I think it would be cool if they had skywalks that link all the high rise seidential towers together.

Umm. . . no.

Skywalks are bad because it takes people off the streets. You need to make people walk outside to keep activity on the streets.

Plus, people in one residential tower wouldn't really have any reason to go to another tower. I mean, unless you just like to wander around apartment buildings you don't live in.

I second that Long. And will add that skywalks are only necessary when streets have been over-engineered in favor of the ease of cars-- so in effect, when proper urban design is flouted and disregarded.

Skywalks are yet another example of the car culture gone awry, when one must compartmentalize the public space that is the street into an enclosed and encapsulated space. Give me a narrow, pedestrian-friendly street any day.

what happened with the residential towers proposed by cordish?  this topic is several years old and i'm wondering if anyone's heard anything.

"great recession"

(that's all i've heard)

Those plans got scrapped when the real estate market tanked.  There's no way any new residential condo building will get built in this market in this city.  I'm sure they're hoping that at some point they'll get built, but not anytime soon.

Cordish scrapped the residential towers long before the recession hit.  There was supposed to be at least one tower open along with the first phase of restaurant/retail, which obviously didn't happen.

dangerboy wrote: Cordish scrapped the residential towers long before the recession hit.

This seems to be the truth of it.  Long before the turn in the economy, they were holding off on this development because the sale prices established to that point in KC did not for them justify new tower construction.