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Title: Lifestyle Conveniences, Tax Abatement Provided with Historic Lofts
Description: Advertising article featuring 2029 Wyandotte St. historic four-story building being converted to the Frieght House Lofts.
Date: 2007-07-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Union Station Span to Open
Description: Article reports the opening to pedestrian traffic of a bridge linking Union Station to the Freight House District directly to its north. The pedestrian bridge, incorporating an historic 1892 steel-truss bridge once located elsewhere in Kansas City, will allow visitors to Crossroads and Freight House area restaurants and attractions to park in Union Station's large lot and take a shortcut across the railroad tracks.
Date: 2006-10-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Public Session Slated on PCB Building Razing
Description: Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will discuss at a public hearing plans for tearing down the PCB building at 2100 Wyandotte St., "a toxic eyesore in the Freight House District." Demolition is slated to begin as soon as late October 2004 and would take six to eight months to remove the whole structure.
Date: 2004-10-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: City's Renaissance Will Get a New Link
Description: An unused Kansas City Southern bridge built in 1892 joining the East and West Bottoms will be moved to the Freight House District. "Kansas City Southern is donating the bridge. Kansas City Terminal Railway is actually doing the project over its tracks. The Freight House is donating an easement in its parking for the north end of the bridge. Union Station is making room for the south end to empty into the Sprint Festival Plaza, or north waiting room." The bridge is known as the Penncoyd bridge after the company that manufactured it. Moving the bridge down Grand Avenue will be a challenge. Article includes a diagram of how it will look when in place.
Date: 2005-11-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Freight House Condo Trend Grows
Description: The 80-year old Westinghouse Building in the Freight House District is due to be converted to condominiums. It is located at 2120 Wyandotte Street. It represents the first for-sale residential development in the area. There are to be 23 condos in the building selling from $190,000 to $650,000. It is to be developed by 2120 Wyandotte Developers. The original three story building was completed in 1923. BNIM Architects is designing the project and Harris Construction the contractor. Reece & Nichols is the real estate agent.
Date: 2005-02-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Downtown Kansas City Skyline
Description: View of skyline shot from Hospital Hill, looking northwest. Train yards and freight house district are clearly visible in foreground
Date: 1953-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Crossroads - Rich in history.
Description: Article describes the history of businesses located in what is now known as the Crossroads District, between downtown Kansas City and Union Station.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: PCB Building Razing Begins as Group Takes Step Toward Raising Lofts Nearby
Description: Article describes plans for conversion of Westinghouse building at 2120 Wyandotte Street to condominiums. At the same time, the nearby PCB Treatment Inc. building is being demolished.
Date: 2005-02-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Park For the Arts Proposed
Description: There is an empty lot at 2100 Wyandotte in the Freight House District that some would like to see turned into a park. The PCB Building was once located on this property and was demolished two years ago by the Environmental Protection Agency. Tom Levitt is pushing for the park, which could display the art of Jim Leedy, a local sculptor. Those buying the ground, Copaken, White & Blitt and Harris Construction Co., want to build residential condos, first floor commercial space, and parking beneath.
Date: 2007-05-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Freight House Hotel Planned
Description: The article states, "The developer of the historic Freight House building, home of three upscale restaurants, wants to complete his original plan by building a 21-story hotel and garage nearby." The 120-year-old Freight House was renovated 10 years ago and is located at 101 W. 22nd Street in the Crossroads Arts District. Located in the building now is Lidia's Kansas City, Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue, and City Tavern. The proposed hotel would be built east of the Freight House and face the Main Street viaduct. The hotel would be 18 stories tall and have 200 hotel rooms.
Date: 2007-08-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue Restaurant
Description: Evening view of Fiorella' Jack Stack Barbecue located in a building at 101 West 22nd Street in the Freighthouse/Crossroads Arts District south of downtown Kansas City and north of Union Station.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Urban Renaissance
Description: Photos, map, and article about the redevelopment starting in the late 1990s of the Freight House District, an area of re-used older buildings between 19th, Broadway, and Walnut Streets and the railroad tracks behind Union Station. Description of several businesses such as the Emery Bird Thayer building at 17th and Walnut Streets, "offices tucked into buildings" including art galleries and studios and restaurants such as Lidia's and the Zin restaurant, as well as lofts and apartments, etc.
Date: 2001-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: All Aboard!
Description: Article describes the freighthouse Flats loft development at 2120 Wyandotte, in the Freight House District, north of Union Station and adjacent to the Crossroads Arts District. The building, constructed in 1924 to house Westinghouse Electric products shipped by rail into Kansas City, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 2006-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Crossroads District: A Story of Growth and Change
Description: Article describes the Crossroads Arts District including some of the businesses there, the attraction and some of the challenges of the area.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Magazine Article

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