Discuss items in the urban core outside of Downtown as described above. Everything in the core including the east side (18th & Vine area), Northeast, Plaza, Westport, Brookside, Valentine, Waldo, 39th street, & the entire midtown area.
Rode by 27th and Troost this morning. The lot on the NE corner has been graded and a cluster of trees planted. Might be something connected to the MAX stop there.
Construction is well underway for the UMKC Hospital Hill/Beacon Hill Student Apartments at 2401 Troost. This is a large four story building which will run from 24th all the way to 'Beacon Lane, facing Troost with interior courtyards on the alley side. You can see the retaining walls and footings underway now. This building will rise quickly and change the scale of the neighborhood considerably. Also the housing on Tracy is just the beginning, the word is that most of the lots around that pocket park are sold and you should see a considerable amount of construction in this area.
chaglang wrote:Are the student apartments a Gould Evans project?
Yes, it is.
My inside source tells me that UMKC was interested in (and had the budget for) reproducing what they got with Oak Place apartments. Not an exact replica, but the finishes will be of a similar caliber.
Critical, that is only partially true. Sources tell me that the overall product will be a major improvement over Oak Place, in terms of design and finish - although the actual units themselves will be similar to Oak Place. The exterior of the building and the overall relationship to the urban environment will be much denser and considerate - and the style will not be as over simplified.
voltopt wrote:Critical, that is only partially true. Sources tell me that the overall product will be a major improvement over Oak Place, in terms of design and finish - although the actual units themselves will be similar to Oak Place. The exterior of the building and the overall relationship to the urban environment will be much denser and considerate - and the style will not be as over simplified.
Good to hear... I trust your sources are more recent and accurate. I must have divulged older info as I haven't discussed this project in quite a while with my source.
Additional plans call for reconstruction of Troost from 22nd to 30th streets.
Has anyone seen designs for the reconstruction of Troost?
From talking to a guy working on the project, it sounds like a road diet. Going from 5 lanes to 2, bumpouts at the curb with native plantings, planted median in some places, widened sidewalks, and so on. The goal is to do more of this as they tear up Troost for the sewer project and eventually connect up with the similar work they're doing at Cleaver & Troost. It may be included in the Troost Corridor Study that MARC is releasing in a week or so.
Additional plans call for reconstruction of Troost from 22nd to 30th streets.
Has anyone seen designs for the reconstruction of Troost?
From talking to a guy working on the project, it sounds like a road diet. Going from 5 lanes to 2, bumpouts at the curb with native plantings, planted median in some places, widened sidewalks, and so on. The goal is to do more of this as they tear up Troost for the sewer project and eventually connect up with the similar work they're doing at Cleaver & Troost. It may be included in the Troost Corridor Study that MARC is releasing in a week or so.
I really, really, really wish someone in this city was visionary enough to make Troost a bike/ped/transit-only street from 24th to 63rd.
There's alot of good bones still, as most people here and few people outside of this milieu know. There is also no business community along Troost to stop it or howl too loud about OMG!!!!PARKING!!!! It would demonstrate a real commitment to doing something concrete about the Troost divide. I bet its cheaper than 2 miles of streetcar and even more effective in terms of spurning development.
chingon wrote:
I really, really, really wish someone in this city was visionary enough to make Troost a bike/ped/transit-only street from 24th to 63rd.
you're missing several really, really big things on that segment
I really, really, really wish someone in this city was visionary enough to make Troost a bike/ped/transit-only street from 24th to 63rd
A few decades ago they remade the main street in downtown KCK like that, except for the transit part, parking only in back, and so on. Believe that experiment failed.
