Renovations of apartment buildings along Armour Blvd.

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As for the 60,000 square-foot US Bank building that opened in 1973, Mac has backed off its original idea of demolishing the structure and decided instead to completely overhaul it by replacing its facade.

“We want to give it a new skin and appearance,” Cassel said. “It’s a great place for corner retail with the second and third floors for office and then residential as well.

“The most environmentally sound way to develop is to reuse the old.”
I'm glad a developer is taking into consideration being environmentally sound, and not demolishing existing, viable buildings of size.

It makes sense to place most of the affordable apartments in the New Yorker building since it's less expensive to renovate the apartments than build new ones.
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Wonder if US Bank will relocate in Midtown or stay in the building, that US Bank is one of the busier ones in the region and one of the few where in person banking was open during covid while the others were drive thru only
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brewcrew1000 wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:13 am Wonder if US Bank will relocate in Midtown or stay in the building, that US Bank is one of the busier ones in the region and one of the few where in person banking was open during covid while the others were drive thru only
Most banks are downsizing majorly. I would expect they could stay as busy in a building the fraction the size.

My bank has branches with drive thru which is a self service machine and cameras to a person, so they can put this equipment literally anywhere in any parking lot.
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Banks have never occupied the entire building. The two upper floors have always been leased to office tenants.
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Maybe they’ll still be a tenant in the building once it’s redone?
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Interesting that MAC isn't using Helix on this project.
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^It's Hufft. I don't see any examples of mid-rise residential from Hufft...
https://hufft.com/work/

More from KCBJ artcile..
Because Pancho's and U.S. Bank's leases expire at the end of 2022, Cassel said Mac aims to start construction in the first quarter of 2023 and deliver its first units between spring and summer of 2024.
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earthling wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:35 pm ^It's Hufft. I don't see any examples of mid-rise residential from Hufft...
https://hufft.com/work/

More from KCBJ artcile..
Because Pancho's and U.S. Bank's leases expire at the end of 2022, Cassel said Mac aims to start construction in the first quarter of 2023 and deliver its first units between spring and summer of 2024.
HIVE landed Ascend (DEFEO) in the River Market. Gives me similar vibes... Very small firm going big. I have been impressed with Ascend so far
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earthling wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:08 pm BizJournal on new MAC project...
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... amily.html
Interesting. They wouldn't be able to build here without incentives and they are meeting the low income requirement by buying and existing low income building.
Cassel said that he does not see a path to building a fully market-rate project without incentives.
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IIRC Hufft did the concept design for the MAC apartment building that would have replaced the colonnades on the north side of West Armour.
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chaglang wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:50 pm IIRC Hufft did the concept design for the MAC apartment building that would have replaced the colonnades on the north side of West Armour.
Do you know where to find renderings from that?
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There are two in the early, early pages of this thread:
viewtopic.php?p=514993#p514993
viewtopic.php?p=518830#p518830

The second one was maybe in response to the first images? It's been a while since I thought about that almost-project.

I think Hufft has some mixed use projects... at least one.
https://hufft.com/project/farmers-park/

There are a couple more mixed use projects on their website, but it's a little hard to tell if they're renders or completed projects. I know the one above exists.
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Definitely needs to be mixed use, the second was much stronger than the first but inappropriate for a ten story on Maine might be okay for the smaller ones on baltimore
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Hufft does some very interesting work. Very simple lines with high end materials. I'm just not sure how well they are going to reflect over time. Maybe, their design seems too specific or trendy to last? the design equivalent of reclaimed barn wood? Hoping for the best.
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It'll be interesting to see how they translate the scale difference between their current work and this project. Also curious to see how they respond to the location - last I looked there's a lot of suburban work in the portfolio. The KCAI building is a nice example of their work on an urban site.
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Cant find the thread but the apartments at Gillam and 31st filed for an alley vacation.
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normalthings wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:05 am Cant find the thread but the apartments at Gillam and 31st filed for an alley vacation.
Is that the velvet freeze building?
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Riverite wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:18 am
normalthings wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:05 am Cant find the thread but the apartments at Gillam and 31st filed for an alley vacation.
Is that the velvet freeze building?
I think so
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The Velvet Freeze project is covered in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=19093
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