Redevelopment of old Quartermaster Depot site at Hardesty and Indy Ave.

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Redevelopment of old Quartermaster Depot site at Hardesty and Indy Ave.

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The General Services Administration is nearing sale of seven long-vacant buildings in the former Hardesty Federal Complex located at Independence Avenue and Hardesty in the City's Old Northeast neighborhood. The site has been vacant since 1999.

http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/11/02/story4.html?ana=e_ph
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FangKC wrote: The General Services Administration is nearing sale of seven long-vacant buildings in the former Hardesty Federal Complex located at Independence Avenue and Hardesty in the City's Old Northeast neighborhood. The site has been vacant since 1999.

http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansa ... l?ana=e_ph
Heckofa big facility.  I'm really curious as to whether or not they still intend to use the complex for development of energy alternatives.  Also wonder what they had to pay for the beast.

By the way Fang, I've been thinking of you this afternoon.  I was gifted with a certificate to Strouds and we're planning to go Sunday.

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Here is the site.

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A brief search for "Foundation Telecommuncations, Inc" on the web left me with the impression that pulling this development off will be quite a stretch for this company.  Has the feel of a proposal based heavily - if not entirely - on hopes for incentives.  This company doesn't list any experience in alternative energy research or development among their credentials and is, apparently, a pretty small venture.  They are classified by the federal government as a "Small Disadvantaged Business" and they seem to make their living largely by providing wifi equipment to governmental and educational facilities. 

It didn't take me twenty minutes to find this stuff on the web.  What troubles me is that I probably just put more time into researching the company than most of the city council members will.
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Feds will remediate environmental problems at the Hardesty Federal Complex site to sweeten deal for buyers.

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Asian-American non-profit Redev group by's former Fed Complex on Hardesty.
An 18-acre, dilapidated former Army depot on Hardesty Avenue in the Northeast area of Kansas City has been purchased by a nonprofit New York group that wants to bring it back to economic life.

The new owner, Asian Americans for Equality, has done extensive development and housing work assisting the Asian-American community in New York since its founding in 1974. This is its first venture outside that city.

“We’re in the preliminary stage,” said Kevin Kong, an official with the organization. “We have the site, and we’re trying to understand what the needs are. We want to use it for economic development and jobs.”
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/03/31 ... group.html

Seems like could be some potentially good news for the northeast
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I also know that Will Royster (ran against John Rizzo for MO House seat) wanted to find some way to redevelop the GSA Hardesty complex and create jobs in the Northeast.

I hope the new owners come up with a plan to do something with this property, because I think it's a key parcel for that corridor.

I wish they could bring in a Target store or something like that on the east side of the property. One has to drive a good distance out of the neighborhood to visit a large discount retail store. I have a feeling they will end up tearing down those smaller warehouse buildings on the east and south of the property.

The large warehouse building is going to be a challenge to redevelop into something other than a rental storage building.

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Groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for former Federal Hardesty Complex
Hardesty Renaissance Economic Development Corporation (EDC) will host a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 10, from noon to 1 p.m.

Hardesty Renaissance EDC, a Missouri non-profit, formed in 2011 with the mission of re-purposing the former Hardesty Federal Complex located at 607 Hardesty Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Prior to Hardesty Renaissance EDC purchasing the site in 2011, the complex had been vacant for more than 10 years. Situated on 18 aces, the facility includes 572,000 square feet of space in its collective six buildings. The complex was built in 1941 as a Quartermaster’s Depot and served a variety of government purposes until 2002.

Hardesty Renaissance’s vision is to revitalize the site by creating new jobs and a destination that will serve as a catalyst for redevelopment in Historic Northeast. The non-profit organization spent two years developing relationships in the community and researching potential uses for the site. To date, two studies have been completed and one of the studies that was authorized by the Port Authority of Kansas City determined there was potential to host a food hub on site. The second study, funded through a Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) grant, identified gaps in the region’s food system that could be filled by operators on the Hardesty site. In 2014, the non-profit will begin developing a business and financial plan for hosting a food hub and distribution center on site.


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Hardesty Renaissance EDC holds groundbreaking ceremony
For Phase I of site development, Hardesty Renaissance will renovate Building 11 and perform asbestos abatement. The renovation will create a workspace, exhibit area for attracting potential partners, tenants and operators, and a community meeting room. Phase I is scheduled to be complete by the spring of 2014. Kui said he’s confident the overall project will revitalize the Northeast and serve as a catalyst for additional economic opportunities in the area. Beginning in 2014, Hardesty Renaissance will begin to further develop a business and financial plan which will build on the two feasibility studies.


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One of the members of the Old Northeast Facebook page, who is very involved in neighborhood projects, announced today that Northwest Missouri State University will be opening a campus at the Hardesty Renaissance site. More information is forthcoming.
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FangKC wrote:One of the members of the Old Northeast Facebook page, who is very involved in neighborhood projects, announced today that Northwest University State University will be opening a campus at the Hardesty Renaissance site. More information is forthcoming.
An urban agriculture campus. It's a brilliant step for the project and Northeast.
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NWMSU also is building a new campus branch in Gladstone at N.E. 69th Street and N. Oak Trafficway, and are affiliated with Maple Wood Community College.

http://www.nwmissouri.edu/kc/

The Hardesty site will allow NWMSU to provide affordable undergraduate and post-graduate degree courses (including the first urban agricultural degree program in the country) as well as other “workforce development” crafts-based and professional certification programs.
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As major announcements loom, Dunn looks back on history of Quartermaster Depot
Hardesty Renaissance Economic Development Corporation (HREDC) Director Charlie Hopper told the Northeast News earlier this week that the 501(c)(3) non-profit is currently in the process of compiling a list of tenants at the property. The tenants are expected to include education-based focuses around food, agriculture, and wellness and education sciences.

“By 2019, at a minimum, you’re going to have 210,000 square feet that are active, that are open, that people are moving into and fitting their businesses into at Building 11,” Hopper said.
http://northeastnews.net/pages/?p=36217
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Demolition of building 6 bid out. Hope to start soil clean-up in October.
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Wow. I forget this thing is still simmering.
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Arnold Development Group working on transforming Hardesty Self Storage into 352 apartments, 60/40 split affordable. Waiting on various tax credits, etc.

http://northeastnews.net/pages/new-plan ... dence-ave/
Plans are in the works for a local developer to repurpose the Hardesty Self Storage building at 5401 Independence Ave. into 352 apartments.


Now in the early stages of planning, developers are working to determine what is feasible, Jonathan Arnold of Arnold Development Group said.


“While our plans are not set in concrete, what we are aiming to build at the site is a mixed-use development that would be mainly residential in the 12-story building, with ground floor food hall-type related services, and with a focus and emphasis on local retailers and operators,” Arnold said.


The ground floor would have an indoor-outdoor eating experience, which Arnold said would try to tie together the myriad of ethnicities and amazing food options that are already in Northeast.


“Given that buildings are responsible for 40 up to 70% of our carbon emissions in cities, we see that our contribution to helping the environment is helping to create buildings that have a very low carbon footprint and are built to last a very long time,” Arnold said.


Arnold has been developing in Kansas City for the past 18 years, and said he is familiar with the area. His company is a Benefit Corporation, which measures its returns across a triple bottom line, balancing financial return, community and environment. He describes his company as a mission-driven, socially responsible real estate development company.


“The projects that we get involved in are typically catalytic in nature in that they transform both the site that we develop and they also have spinoff effects,” Arnold said. “That’s what myself and the people who invest with us like to see.”


Arnold Development Group is responsible for a sustainable new construction apartment building at 2nd and Delaware in River Market. While that one was designed to look like a historic warehouse, Arnold said they will keep the existing building at Hardesty and Independence.


“It’s an absolutely gorgeous building, we’re going to restore it back to what it looked like when it was built in 1919,” Arnold said. “That’s an amazing piece of history in the development of Kansas City as a frontier town and the Art Deco design is timeless, and it is built like a tank so it’s an incredible asset… The sort of patina and character that these buildings have, it’s very hard to replicate.”


He sees his role as coming in with more energy efficient systems and better windows, and creating spaces that are quiet and comfortable, while preserving the historic nature.


The plan is for 352 apartment units on the second through 12th floors, with a wide range of unit types including two-story, three and four bedrooms, and even micro units. Most of the units will be studios or one to two bedrooms.


“We’re looking at a 60/40 split, 60% would be for affordable housing… and then the other 40% would be classified at market rate,” Arnold said.


Arnold said in terms of housing cost, a majority will be classified as affordable, but they are focused on making the rest attainable for what he calls the “missing middle,” which is people who don’t qualify for affordable housing but can’t qualify for what he describes as downtown market rate.


“There’s no quality difference between the two, which is an important thing to note, and no one will know which unit is which, they’re all blended in,” Arnold said. “That’s typically considered a best practice in these types of projects.”


The development group plans to conduct a traffic study on Hardesty and Independence, and while the intersection is designed to handle steady traffic, Arnold said they will take note of the issues potentially caused by people entering and exiting the property’s parking lots.


“We have plenty of land and parts of that parking will be inside, and some of it will be surface parking,” Arnold said.


Currently, the project has an application being considered by the Missouri Housing and Development Commission to receive 4% Federal Tax Credits and other tax credits.


“We’re still in the process of jumping through all of the various hurdles and hoops to get ready to start the project,” Arnold said. “If everything goes according to plan, we’d hopefully start construction toward the end of this year, probably a 14 to 16 month build out.”


Arnold said the group has made presentations to the Lykins Neighborhood Association board, and will continue to work with them and other local entities.


“We’re here to help strengthen and contribute to the community that is already there and vibrant and growing, and do it in a responsible way,” Arnold said. “We welcome input and we’ll be making presentations throughout the process.”


Bobbi Baker-Hughes, President and CEO of the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and Independence Avenue Community Improvement District (CID) manager, said her organizations had not heard yet from developers.


“It’s such a huge project, and such a meaningful project, to the community that to make a larger presentation to be more inclusive of the greater Northeast community would be appropriate,” Baker-Hughes said.


Hardesty Self Storage offers storage units up to 30,000 square feet, and stores vehicles and trailers among many other things.


In 1919, the building was built for approximately $2.5 million as the National Cloak & Suit Company warehouse, later known as the National Bellas Hess Co.


The back of a postcard featuring the building read, “Two thousand people are employed in this building, which also contains a thoroughly modern hospital, cafeteria, recreation room, ball grounds, tennis courts, etc.”


At one time, Bellas Hess was one of the top five mail order companies in the country, generating sales of more than $250 million a year through the mailing of 25 million catalogs.


During World War II, the site became known as the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot, including a unit that processed personal effects of military personnel killed in action.


In 1948, the Army established the Kansas City Records Center in the building, consolidating five record centers located in other cities into the Hardesty location.


The federal government continued to occupy the site through the early 1980’s until the structure was sold to Megaspace Inc., a self-storage facility. The remainder of the 18-acre plot was offered for sale on the open market in 2008 and was purchased by Foundation Telecommunications of Rogers, Ark.
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Long term vision is working-class mixed use village.
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This is a great project. There is such a need for affordable housing options in the Old Northeast. This site will appeal to low-income seniors since it is in walking distance to a public library, a grocery store, a hardware store, and two drug stores. It is also on bus routes.
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GSA plans demolition of old Hardesty Federal Complex building in KC
Part of a former U.S. Army Depot dating back to World War II could be reduced to rubble this year, as the General Services Administration seeks to clean up underlying contaminants at the former Hardesty Federal Complex just east of downtown Kansas City.

In the spring, the agency expects to award a contract and give the go-ahead for demolition of a two-story, 56,000-square-foot warehouse building within the 22-acre complex, also known as the former Kansas City Quartermaster Depot, at 607 Hardesty Ave.
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Within the complex, Hardesty Renaissance has finished remediating Buildings 10 and 11, and expects to finish abating a third, Building 9, by the end of the second quarter, Jennifer Sun, co-executive director of AAFE, said in an email.

The former Hardesty Federal Complex's nine current buildings — eight, after Building 6 is demolished — have no current redevelopment plan or tenants, Sun said.

Just to the west of Building 6, outside the complex, Arnold Development Group is in the early stages of plans to renovate the Hardesty Self Storage building at 5401 Independence Ave. with 352 apartments, Northeast News reports.
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alejandro46 wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:56 pm Arnold Development Group working on transforming Hardesty Self Storage into 352 apartments, 60/40 split affordable. Waiting on various tax credits, etc.

http://northeastnews.net/pages/new-plan ... dence-ave/
This is going to be a solid anchor for future development initiatives to grow off of. The inclusion of affordable apartments, a public food hall and more will make this a hub of activity. 352 apartments is no small amount.

The plan is for 352 apartment units on the second through 12th floors, with a wide range of unit types including two-story, three and four bedrooms, and even micro units. Most of the units will be studios or one to two bedrooms.

Including a variety of unit types is great too. Offer a mixture of types to appeal to a lot more people. Even though the plans seem preliminary, it seems like Arnold is on the right track with this development so far.
- Mixture of unit types.
- Appeals to people in different money brackets.
- Preservation of a large older building.
- Become a public meeting place and a place for local businesses to open up shop on the ground floor.
- Hundreds of new residents to the area.

Can't wait to hear updates on this one.
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