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Title: Downtown in Demand
Description: Article on the increased demand for downtown housing in Kansas City, but vacancies are scarce. The occupancy rates for downtown apartments are near 95 percent and yet no projects are in the works to increase the housing.
Date: 2012-08-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Downtown KCK Spruces Up
Description: The Unified Government of Wyandotte County has been working to revitilize Minnesota Avenue in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. Recent improvements include building renovations of locations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the old Horace Mann school, as well as new landscaping, parking, and a bus transit center. Additional building restoration plans are in the works.
Date: 2014-05-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: KC Preservation Prizes
Description: Historic Kansas City Foundation selected the newly reopened Aladdin Hotel and the former Blossom House & Girls Club for the annual renovation/rehabilitation awards. Also included were the Christian Church Hospital converted to residences at 2625 W. Paseo Blvd; the Longview Farm Elementary School from a former horse stable built in 1915, and other properties like the Old Fire Station No. 9 (1910) 2 S. 14th St., Kansas City, Kan.; TWA headquarters (1956) building at 1735 Main St. now the home of Barkley advertising.
Date: 2007-06-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Old Haunt, New History
Description: Article describes renovations underway in 2006 to convert the Monroe Hotel building at 1904 Main Street into condominiums. The hotel, once adjacent to Tom Pendergast's Jackson County Democratic Club office, will feature 8 condos in place of a number of "working class" hotel rooms.
Date: 2006-03-16
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Hidden Traces of Benton At Work Emerge At Last
Description: An article discussing pencil sketches by Thomas Hart Benton that are up for auction by Dirk Soulis Auctions in Lone Jack, Missouri. Items to be auctioned are a dozen previously unknown preliminary sketches of the mural "Achelous and Hercules" that used to be displayed in the Harzfeld's department store from 1949 until the store closed in 1984. It is now displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Date: 2010-12-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Big Plans for Historic Pickwick
Description: Article reports on a plan to to renovate the historic Pickwick hotel and bus terminal complex located between 9th and 10th streets on McGee. Overland Park developer Tom Smith wants to redevelop the complex as apartments and plans to begin construction in the spring of 2014. The Pickwick Hotel was built in the 1930s by the architectural firm of Wight & Wight. The building was converted into a housing development in the 1970s and closed in 2009.
Date: 2013-09-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Tax Credits Help Revamp Regis Hotel
Description: Article announces that the Missouri Housing Development Commission has approved $13.5 million in tax credits to restore the historic St. Regis Hotel, located at the intersection of Linwood Avenue and the Paseo Boulevard. Chuck Gaston, a member of the St. Regis development team, is interviewed and provides details concerning the project. Other projects up for consideration to receive tax credits from the MHDC, notably the Folgers Coffee building, are mentioned.
Date: 2013-01-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Downtown Project Gets a New Deadline
Description: The building that once housed the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, located at 925 Grand Boulevard, is part of a redevelopment plan by Jason Townsend. Townsend purchased the 90-year old building in 2005 and proposed converting it into residential condominiums. An extension was granted on his $45 million redevelopment proposal giving him a deadline of January 2014 to complete the work.
Date: 2011-01-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Bright Edge for River Market
Description: A $3.5 million reconstruction project has been developed for Second Street in the River Market district. The major portion of the project will turn a dirt road into a landscaped pedestrian thoroughfare. Work to begin at the end of September. Many other reconstruction projects will begin throughout the fall along Second Street. Some of these projects include Market Station, a luxury apartment complex, and an illuminated light wall around the Kansas City Power & Light substation at Second and Main. Includes illustration.
Date: 2007-09-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Boutique Hotel to Open in a Year
Description: The former Gate City National Bank building at 1111 Grand Boulevard will undergo an $11 million renovation to become the 43-room Grand Hotel. From 2000 to 2006 the building housed Club Chemical, "a nightclub with such a nasty reputation that Kansas City police weren't allowed to work there off-duty as security guards."
Date: 2011-01-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Going Green - With Glass
Description: Article discusses the founding of Rippleglass llc, "the nation's first self-contained metropolitan recycling system." The venture was initiated by Boulevard Brewing Company. Working with MARC, Deffenbaugh Recycling, Owens Corning, DST systems, UMB Bank, and Adam Jones, they will collect used glass in bins placed throughout Kansas City for re-processing into fiberglass insulation.
Date: 2009-10-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Movies Are Returning to Main Street
Description: The AMC Mainstreet Theater is set for its grand reopening on May 1 after the company worked with Cordish Company, the developer for the Kansas City Power and Light District. The theater features a six-screen complex, a restaurant/lounge called the Marquee, digital posters and a flavor wall. The Mainstreet Theater originally opened in 1921 and became the RKO Missouri in 1949. Finally in 1960 it became the Empire Theater and eventually closed in 1985.
Date: 2009-04-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Home for Artists Planned Downtown
Description: Article reports on a proposal from a Minneapolis developer, Sherman Associates, to renovate the historic Scarritt Building (818 Grand Blvd) into an afforable living and work space for local artists. The plans calls for the 11-story building to be renovated into 40 studio apartments and 69 single bedroom units. A follow-up phase includes the redevelopment of the neighboring Scarritt Arcade at 819 Walnut St.
Date: 2013-10-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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