Housing
Flatland covers stories about affordable housing, evictions and tenant rights in the Kansas City metro and surrounding area.
Super-Green River Market Apartment Project For Sale
By Kevin Collison Second + Delaware, Kansas City’s greenest apartment project, is up for sale less than three years after opening in the River Market. The $71 million project was built to “passive house” standards that included 16-inch concrete walls with a layer of foam in the middle. It uses 90 percent less energy than…
Milhaus Teams with UC-B on 100-Unit Apartment Plan on Troost
By Kevin Collison A familiar team is working together again to develop a 100-unit apartment project at the southeast corner of Linwood and Troost. UC-B Properties and Milhaus have formed a partnership for the project. It would join another 89-unit development proposed by Indianapolis-based Milhaus for the southwest corner of the same intersection. “We realized…
Developers Pursue Skyscraper Next to Kauffman Center
A major project being pursued on Broadway next to the Kauffman Center could include a 40-story apartment/hotel tower and a second tower later.
Plan for 12th and Broadway Calls for Apartments, HQ Expansion
By Kevin Collison The developer of city-owned property at 12th and Broadway wants to build a 13-story apartment building and ultimately expand the former Kansas City Southern headquarters, but the timing relies on the proposed reconstruction of Barney Allis Plaza. The proposal by what’s now Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Americo was outlined Wednesday…
KC Southern Expansion, Apartments in the Works Downtown
Plans for apartments and an expanded headquarters for the former Kansas City Southern hinge, in part, on reconstruction of Barney Allis Plaza.