KCRag Forum

normalthings wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:23 pm

kboish wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:15 pm This was what I was hoping to see. More like this please

IMHO: This is where we should put our Keystone Innovation District. Let’s get the local Apple, Google, and Microsoft offices down there. Then sprinkle in a bunch of startups with tech district offices for local players like Garmin, Cerner, etc.

kcjak wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:07 am I realize the map in the Cityscene article may not be 100% accurate, but isn't the streetcar extension supposed to go further east than it shows? The map has it going only as far as the Northpoint apartment complex announced recently - I thought it was going to end closer to I-29/35?

normalthings wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:06 am

kcjak wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:07 am I realize the map in the Cityscene article may not be 100% accurate, but isn't the streetcar extension supposed to go further east than it shows? The map has it going only as far as the Northpoint apartment complex announced recently - I thought it was going to end closer to I-29/35?

I think it is supposed to end at the mid way point

• Previously announced 10 story building(s), Units TBD, Size of project ~700,000 sqft

• 5 story garage, 600 spaces

• 36 surface parking spaces

• 10 story apartment building, 611 units, never been publicly announced

• 5 story garage, 810 spaces

• 100 surface spaces

• 10 story apartment building, 430 units, never been publicly announced

• 5 story garage, 460 spaces

• Construction starting Spring 2020, this parcel is Phase 2

• Previously announced hotel project - 7 stories, 70 rooms

• Garage - 2 stories includes retail

• Previously announced Northpoint apartments- 5 stories, 350 units

• Previously announced Bridgeside Lofts - 5 stories, 60 units, no setback on any side

KCDowntown wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:44 pm Final Development Plan submitted to the city for the 12A parcel (the NorthPoint development). Plans can be downloaded from the link.

346 units over 3 buildings, all 4 stories (1 with basement level), 511 total parking spaces. Construction start April 2020, finished December 2021.

Only a sliver of this project abuts Berkeley Parkway, and has zero setbacks there. Otherwise, it's surrounded by surface parking. Hopefully the hotel on the northern part of this Parcel will improve this block.

KCDowntown

A $15 million affordable apartment development proposed for the riverfront is floundering after being rejected for federal low-income tax credits, partly because it lacked the mayor’s support, according to Port KC officials.

The 75-unit Bridgeside Lofts project proposed by Prairie Fire Development is planned for a site near Berkley Riverfront Park controlled by Port KC. It calls for 60 percent of the units to be reserved as affordable housing with monthly rents going for $695 to $895.

But while the Port KC board supported the Prairie Fire project, its financing also relied on the developer receiving federal low-income housing tax credits.
...
The committee also was given an update on progress on other riverfront redevelopment projects:

–NorthPoint Development has purchased Port KC land and reached a development agreement required for a 350-unit apartment project on the riverfront just east of the Bar K restaurant and dog park.

–Port KC is continuing to negotiate with a developer who plans to build a five-story, 120-room boutique hotel on riverfront property.

–Port KC is continuing discussions with a developer who wants to build two, ten-story apartment towers on the riverfront along with some office and retail.
...

Case # CD-CPC-2019-00225 110 Berkley Plz. - A request to approve an amendment
to the Berkley Riverfront MPD Plan permit additional uses (hotel), site layout (remove
roundabout), increase in square footage and building height on about 80 generally
bordered by the Missouri river on the north and west, I-29 on the east and railroad
tracks (KCS/ I&MRL/ UP & BNSF) on the south.
Applicant: Krishan Purvis, Port Authority of Kansas City, Missouri
Continued From: January 21, 2020

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The Port Authority of Kansas City has requested rezoning that would allow for a hotel, even though the agency has no specific project in mind, spokeswoman Mariah Shields told the Kansas City Business Journal on Wednesday.

A hotel was always part of the Berkley Riverfront vision — there are none there or in the nearby River Market — but the use wasn't included in the original master plan. This action would correct that.
...
The action to rezone was on the docket for Tuesday's City Plan Commission meeting, but action was continued to March because of delays in required public meetings about the project.

earthling wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:41 am Even the convention bureau (VisitKC) thinks downtown needs to take a breather from more hotels. But long term would think downtown could handle another 1K-2K rooms and midtown could probably handle some more economy hotels.