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Developer Devises New Plan For Vacant Hotel
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Description
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Gold Crown Properties of Overland Park is making an attempt to redevelop the historic Pickwick block of downtown Kansas City. The hotel sits between 9th and 10 streets and faces McGee. With the aid of tax incentives, the $35 million project would convert the 10-story hotel into 219 apartments and the 7-story office building into 59 units of senior housing. If plans are approved, construction would begin next summer with the apartments completed in 2012.
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2010-09-17
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Newspaper Article
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Big Plans for Historic Pickwick
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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.
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2013-09-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Move Buoys Hopes for Hotel
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A proposal by the city council's housing committee to remove federall low-income restrictions could make it easier to sell the Pickwick Hotel. The complex at McGee between 9th and 10th streets has sat empty since early 2009.
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2009-06-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
