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Apartment Plan That Includes Homeless Housing Proposed for Riverfront
The Vecino Group is proposing a 63-unit affordable apartment project that also would include 15 units dedicated to chronically homeless people on riverfront property owned by Port KC. The Springfield-based organization, which also developed a 50-unit affordable apartment project at 31st and Harrison, wants to meet with city planners this week to discuss the $11…
Keystone Innovation Concept Makes Real Estate Moves on East 18th Street
By Kevin Collison The Keystone Community Corp. is making its first real estate moves on East 18th Street, intending to occupy a new $20 million office project that could begin construction early next year and participate in renovating a nearby former warehouse building. J.E. Dunn Capital Partners, a partner with Keystone, has submitted a preliminary…
Barney Allis Rebuild Adds Affordable Housing in City Manager Plan
By Kevin Collison The long saga to revitalize the aging Barney Allis Plaza and its crumbling underground garage has taken another turn, this time due to a new proposal to add 300 units of affordable housing to the mix. City Manager Brian Platt has asked consultants to return to the drawing board for a Barney…
Big Westport Mixed-Use Project Back, Would Include Apartments and Hotel
By Kevin Collison A big Westport apartment and hotel project pitched four years ago is back, with the City Plan Commission quietly approving a master plan development agreement Tuesday for what’s called Westport Terrace at Manor Square. The project would significantly increase the density of the city’s best-known historic neighborhood, adding 220 apartments in two,…
Tailleur, French-Style Brasserie, Opens on Main Near Future Streetcar Stop
By Kevin Collison Tailleur, the new restaurant concept by the creators of The Russell, feels like a refreshing culinary oasis à la Parisian brasserie, especially if you enter off Main, past all the streetcar-related construction. “I wanted a bistro and bakery with a New York and European feeling,” said co-owner Heather White. “It felt like…