Housing

Flatland covers stories about affordable housing, evictions and tenant rights in the Kansas City metro and surrounding area.

The six-story historic ABC Storage building at 3244 Main St. and the adjoining former Anderson Electric Car building.

Plan to Redevelop Historic ABC Building on Main Clears First Hurdle

Exact Partners wants to renovate the six-story ABC Storage Building at 3244 Main and an adjoining three-story building at 3420 Main into a 50- to 60-unit apartment project with a rooftop café.

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Plan to Redevelop Historic ABC Building on Main Clears First Hurdle

By Kevin Collison A $13 million redevelopment proposal for two historic buildings near Linwood and Main on the planned streetcar route cleared its first hurdle Tuesday with a development agency approving a blight designation and preliminary plan. Exact Partners wants to renovate the six-story ABC Storage Building at 3244 Main and an adjoining three-story building…

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Sam Rodgers Housing Project to Add 62 Mixed-Income Apartments

By Kevin Collison Sam Rodgers Place, a 62-unit mixed-income housing development, broke ground Monday on the campus of the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center near downtown. The development is intended  to provide housing to households across the spectrum, from families coming from public housing to market-rate renters. It will include apartments with up to five-bedrooms as…

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Developer Tackles Historic Building for $120M Affordable Housing Project

By Kevin Collison Fresh from building a super-green apartment complex from scratch, developer Jonathan Arnold is tackling a very different project, renovating a massive, century-old building into affordable housing. Arnold wants to convert the historic National Cloak and Suit Company building at 5401 Independence Ave. into 352 apartments at an estimated cost of $120 million….

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The massive former National Cloak and Suit Co. building opened in 1919 and has 14 acres of total floor space.

Developer Tackles Historic Building for $120M Affordable Housing Project

Developer Jonathan Arnold wants to convert the historic National Cloak and Suit Co. building at 5401 Independence Ave. into 352 apartments at an estimated cost of $120 million.

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