Renovations of apartment buildings along Armour Blvd.

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US Bank and market/restaurant going to the Troost/Amour buildings...
Community Groceries, a combination grocery store/restaurant dedicated to accessible and affordable less-processed food offerings, is projected to open next summer at 3501 Troost Ave., at the intersection's southeast corner. The store opened its first location at 640 E. 18th St. in the Crossroads Arts District earlier this summer.

In addition, at the intersection's northeast corner, a large U.S. Bank branch will open at 3443 Troost Ave., with its timing announced once final regulatory approvals are achieved, potentially in the first quarter.
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... -bank.html
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Great adds
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These do seem like great adds. Perhaps even more encouraging than these specific tenants is what this says about Mac and Troost, in general.

Mac's ability to land quality retail tenants was a bit of a question mark for me. They have never filled the retail space of their building on Main, and the tenants for the building in the SW corner of Armour and Gilham have been underwhelming.

It is also a good sign for the Troost retail market. Hopefully this will encourage some of these other developments to move along more quickly.
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earthling wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:03 pm US Bank and market/restaurant going to the Troost/Amour buildings...
Community Groceries, a combination grocery store/restaurant dedicated to accessible and affordable less-processed food offerings, is projected to open next summer at 3501 Troost Ave., at the intersection's southeast corner. The store opened its first location at 640 E. 18th St. in the Crossroads Arts District earlier this summer.

In addition, at the intersection's northeast corner, a large U.S. Bank branch will open at 3443 Troost Ave., with its timing announced once final regulatory approvals are achieved, potentially in the first quarter.
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... -bank.html
I wonder if they saved the Super Market sign off that building that used to be on the SW corner? They could reuse it.

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They did.
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Yay! Please reuse it.
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Rezoning permit to zone area around US Bank building at 1 East Armour to UR.

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385 units. Not as many as first proposed
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DaveKCMO wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:43 am https://cityscenekc.com/mac-proposes-mu ... tcar-stop/
Most of the city block southwest of Main and Armour would be transformed into a major streetcar-oriented residential project that would include several eight-to 10-story apartment buildings in a plan being pursued by Mac Properties.

The $110 million proposal also would renovate the old New Yorker apartment building at 3521 Baltimore, adapt the US Bank office building at the corner into retail, offices and residential, and build two smaller apartment buildings at Armour and Baltimore.

In all, about 425 apartments, many of them intended to serve the workforce and affordable housing market, and 45,000 square-feet of commercial and retail space is being contemplated.
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CityScene is reporting modifications to this plan. Reduction in apartments from 425 to 385, increasing parking spaces from 187 to 193, and reduction in commercial space from 45,000 to 40,000 sq. ft., The property tax abatement is now at 80 percent for 20 years instead of 100 percent for 20 years.

Construction could begin in the first part of 2023

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Glad they are saving the US Bank building. I know many on here don't like it, but at minimum, we need to save all viable buildings. Fashions come and go.
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Maybe they are increasing the garage space count for the planned retail as required by a certain potential tenant, ahem, with a red bullseye logo. The reduction in commercial space to 40K not ideal but that's still within Urban Target territory. Though is that contiguous space or fragmented across several buildings?
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shinatoo wrote: Mon Nov 22, 2021 10:17 am Glad they are saving the US Bank building. I know many on here don't like it, but at minimum, we need to save all viable buildings. Fashions come and go.
I LOVE that building. It's going to look so better when they strip the terrible tinted windows from it and light it up.
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"A lot of (the changes are) based on neighbor sentiment that maybe 425 units is too many," Cassel said. "As we tried to pare that down, we also then pared down what was the most expensive building to build. ... Bringing it down to what's basically a seven-story building allows us to take out the most expensive structural components of getting up to 10 stories."

Additional project changes include a slight drop in commercial space in a renovation of U.S. Bank's branch at 1 W. Armour Blvd., from 45,000 to 40,000 square feet, and a small jump in parking spaces — 187 to 193 — on surface lots and in a remaining portion of the bank's existing garage.
And sounds like the commercial space may be contiguous, not spread across other buildings. Was hoping they'd do some retail in the new buildings along Main. Doesn't seem to be the case unless I'm missing something. Hopefully designed in a way that can be easily retrofitted for commercial space in future. In the 20+ year big picture, this intersection should become a major TOD center if MAC/neighborhood want it to be, halfway between DT/Plaza.

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I wonder how many inches you need to narrow the spaces on a parking lot to gain 6 spots?
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^They'd probably be willing to leave near zero space for the tenants in order to score Target. &&&

On the reduction of units due to neighborhood 'sentiment', one card MAC could've played... propose something significantly larger than really planned, say 1000 units expecting a NIMBY reaction for less then cut it to the real planned level. I'd bet the neighborhood would be happy if it went from 1000 to 500. It's funny how neighborhoods just want to feel like they have a bit of control.

When MAC buys BK lot <wink wink>, they should propose a 25 story with real intent to go 15. Bet it would work rather than initially proposing 15.
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KCtoBrooklyn wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:08 pm These do seem like great adds. Perhaps even more encouraging than these specific tenants is what this says about Mac and Troost, in general.

Mac's ability to land quality retail tenants was a bit of a question mark for me. They have never filled the retail space of their building on Main, and the tenants for the building in the SW corner of Armour and Gilham have been underwhelming.

It is also a good sign for the Troost retail market. Hopefully this will encourage some of these other developments to move along more quickly.
Beg to differ on the tenants at 301 Armour. Mother Earth Coffee is a perfect match for the Mac community and greater Hyde Park. It's always busy and is a community gathering place all day long. The students from Citizens of the World, Academie Layfayette and FLA pour in after school. Centerwell provides health services to seniors from all over central Kansas City. Every commercial space in Midtown doesn't need to be a brewery.
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The main reason I find the 301 Armour tenants to be underwhelming is based on what MAC was floating as tenants in the planning stages. They had said they were in talks with a small food market that sounds fairly similar to what is supposed to go in at Armour and Troost. I hope it is for real this time.
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DaveKCMO wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:43 am https://cityscenekc.com/mac-proposes-mu ... tcar-stop/
Most of the city block southwest of Main and Armour would be transformed into a major streetcar-oriented residential project that would include several eight-to 10-story apartment buildings in a plan being pursued by Mac Properties.

The $110 million proposal also would renovate the old New Yorker apartment building at 3521 Baltimore, adapt the US Bank office building at the corner into retail, offices and residential, and build two smaller apartment buildings at Armour and Baltimore.

In all, about 425 apartments, many of them intended to serve the workforce and affordable housing market, and 45,000 square-feet of commercial and retail space is being contemplated.
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Council voted down a set aside request today for this project from the Midtown/Costco TIF excess funds. Collison on twitter says this project is now dead
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KC Tenants twitter handle declares victory after prevented the construction of 77 affordable housing units.

I am curious how many victories they have declared for the actual creation of affordable housing units
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kboish wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:28 pm KC Tenants twitter handle declares victory after prevented the construction of 77 affordable housing units.

I am curious how many victories they have declared for the actual creation of affordable housing units
Kind of wish I would have signed that Bunch recall petition now.
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