Housing

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…

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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…

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Westside Townhome Proposal Rec Delayed by Plan Commission

By Kevin Collison A proposal to build nine townhomes on long-vacant property at 29th and Belleview was delayed Tuesday by the City Plan Commission over a procedural glitch and complaints by some neighbors about communication issues. Remez Partnership wants to build six, two-bedroom and three, three-bedroom townhomes on a half-acre lot in the Westside neighborhood…

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Travis Stull in front of his home in the Strawberry Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. Stull bought his home in April.

Kansas City’s Pandemic Housing Market is Increasingly Pricing Out Millennials

A new study found Kansas City is one of the housing markets where affordability has declined the most

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Troost Apartment Plan Moving Forward After Incentive Approval

By Kevin Collison Work on twin apartment projects totaling 52 units at the southeast and southwest corners of 27th and Troost is expected to begin in late summer following approval of a tax incentive package Wednesday. The $8 million project is being developed by Exact Partners, the firm which redeveloped the nearby historic Wonder Bread…

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