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KCAI Welcomes Students with New Facilities, Honors School President
By Kevin Collison The Kansas City Art Institute is launching its school year this week with the opening of its new student center and a permanent tribute to Tony Jones, the leader who’s sparked the school’s renaissance in recent years. The new 18,000 square-foot Paul and Linda DeBruce Hall at 44th and Oak was designed…
City Club Apartments Open
By Kevin Collison The City Club Apartments, a sprawling development that revived much of a key Crossroads block, is beginning to accept residents and plans to announce its new restaurant tenant soon. The $76.8 million project by Detroit-based City Club is opening its 283 apartments in phases with the first 17 units delivered a couple…
Port KC Pursuing Beer Garden and More for Berkley Riverfront Park
By Kevin Collison Port KC is contemplating a beer garden and cafe at Berkley Riverfront Park to help satisfy thousands of volleyball players and create a fixed venue for other events. With hundreds of new apartments opening or in the works on the riverfront and six sand volleyball courts that attract 2,000 players weekly, Port…
Three Light Dims a Notch
By Kevin Collison The Three Light luxury apartment tower has been downsized slightly from its original scope from 321 apartments to 288, and from 32 stories tall to 26, according to new bid documents. The fresh information on the Bidclerk trade publication website indicates the luxury apartment tower, which had been expected to break ground earlier…
‘Great Day for KC,’ Feds Green-Light Main Street Extension of Streetcar
(Editor’s note: Updated Sept. 3 with new renderings of planned Country Club Plaza streetcar stop and a schedule for the Main Street extension presented today by Tom Gerend, KC Streetcar executive director, to the Downtown Council board. The current schedule calls for actual streetcar line construction to begin two years from now. Testing of the…