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Can we agree that the proposed signage is pretty garish? Otherwise, looks like a nice project. I hadn't realized the building was so empty.

smh wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:39 am Can we agree that the proposed signage is pretty garish? Otherwise, looks like a nice project. I hadn't realized the building was so empty.

No worse than a lot of NOW LEASING banners slung onto apartment buildings downtown. The professional building and the courthouse lofts STILL have banners stuck on them

In the seventies UMB had a lobby office in the ground floor and they "modernized" the lower floors by wrapping them in some sort of Disco aluminum. Would love to find a photo of this indignity.

Sounds like Spokes will be moving

So this building on Walnut AND The Aladdin are moving towards residential? That's rather exciting!

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:41 am

smh wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:39 am Can we agree that the proposed signage is pretty garish? Otherwise, looks like a nice project. I hadn't realized the building was so empty.

No worse than a lot of NOW LEASING banners slung onto apartment buildings downtown. The professional building and the courthouse lofts STILL have banners stuck on them

There really should be a time limit on this type of temporary signage. Another great one is the sign across the top of Cafe Gratitude on SW Blvd that announces 'NOW OPEN' which has been up since 2012

10th street east of Main used to be the "financial district" of KC -- UMB, Commerce Bank, Kansas City Title & Trust. Sad how it is now almost all empty.

herrfrank wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:33 pm 10th street east of Main used to be the "financial district" of KC -- UMB, Commerce Bank, Kansas City Title & Trust. Sad how it is now almost all empty.

KC’s regional banks didn’t keep up with competitors and allowed smaller banks to grow larger. SAD!

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:01 am Sounds like Spokes will be moving

The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday approved a 10-year, 80% property tax abatement and redevelopment contract for a 57-apartment renovation of the Kansas City Title and Trust Building at 929 Walnut St. The development team, Exact Architects and MR Capital Advisors, would build the new units in the eight-story building's office space, now fully vacant, while retaining Spokes Café as a ground-floor retail tenant.
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Ah I read 1,500 restaurant and didn't see that.

Not s building but anybody noticing how many fire hydrants we are replacing downtown? Can't be a bad thing I don't think I've ever seen so many replaced all at once?

Permit for remodel of River Market warehouse building at 204 W 3rd into 41 apartments.

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That’s good to see. I hope someone fixes up the corner building a bit. Would be nice to get some storefronts restored, although that might already be residential.

I'm also happy to see something being done with that building.

I agree with Chris that something needs to happen on the corner. It would be a good building to create some cheap small sq. footage retail spaces -- up to five. There is also potential for that building to provide some live/work situations where retail tenants could live on the second floor. Good spaces for a barber shop, florist, a couple of counter food operations, and perhaps a curio shop. At least they removed that awful gray paint from the brick.

The City needs to put some street lamps and trees along that frontage.

The Kessler Building has been sold to the Meiners Market convenience store family.

Eight-story Kessler Building sells to new owners in downtown KC

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Expansive, a Chicago-based flexible office company, last month sold the Kessler Building at 1301 Oak St. to a new entity, Oak KC LLC, for an undisclosed sum. The Kansas City entity includes members of the Meiners family, of the Meiners Market convenience store business.
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Over the long term, the Kessler Building could be a candidate for a future adaptive reuse project, such as a residential or hotel conversion, its sale materials said. The area above its 123-space underground parking garage also conceivably could support future vertical development.

The building sits catty-corner from the T-Mobile Center; next to the Holiday Inn Express Kansas City Downtown; and near multiple government buildings, the Kansas City Power & Light District and the East Village area that, up until late 2023, was the Kansas City Royals' preferred Jackson County site for a new ballpark.
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https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... &empos=p15

The building:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.098499, ... ?entry=ttu