Downtown Living
Citydogs Opening Complete Canine Complex in Crossroads
By Kevin Collison Downtown dog owners will have a new place to board, pamper and play with their pooches when Citydogs opens Aug. 23 at a spacious indoor/outdoor complex at 20th and Walnut streets in the Crossroads. “We decided to open in the Crossroads mostly to meet the needs of all the residents living there,”…
Five Twenty East Opens, First Project in Big Armour Crossing Development
By Kevin Collison Mac Properties has completed Five Twenty East, the first of five apartment buildings planned as the $78 million Armour Crossing redevelopment. The seven-story building at 520 E. Armour is nestled among similar scale, former apartment-hotels built in the 1920s and 1930s along Armour from Main to Troost, and was designed to fit…
Samuel Rodgers Apartment Plan ‘Capstone’ of Paseo Gateway Redevelopment
By Kevin Collison A 62-unit apartment project is in the works for the Samuel D. Rodgers Health Center campus, the final phase of the Paseo Gateway redevelopment initiative that’s added more than 300 residences to the area, many of them affordable. The Samuel Rodgers Health and Wellness Campus project is planned for a five-acre site…
Mac Building a Village on Armour
By Kevin Collison Fourteen years after it began redeveloping dozens of historic buildings along Armour into market-rate apartments, Mac Properties is now striving to create a village in the new Midtown neighborhood its created. “The pandemic made it clear how important social connections are,” said Peter Cassel, Mac director of community development. “We wanted to…
Developer Wins Incentives for $88M First Phase of Ambitious Freight House Project
(UPDATED: The PIEA board approved a 15-year property tax abatement to assist the residential component of the proposed Freight House Village project and a sales tax exemption on construction materials at its meeting today. Developer Vince Bryant told the board the Freight House Village site currently pays about $45,000 annually in property taxes to the…