472 apartments planned in downtown KCK 12 story complex [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Developers unveiled a $145 million proposed 472 unit apartment project at N. 4th Street and Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas Monday before the Unified Government’s Standing Committee.

The entryway to KCK on I-70 and the Lewis and Clark Viaduct has government buildings, a soon to be torn down convention center and a grocery store. Otherwise its open space and many struggling small businesses.

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“We want a wide variety of housing downtown for many years we had great single family neighborhoods adjacent to downtown but it’s not enough to support our downtown businesses,” Jim Schraeder, Shareholders of Downtown KCK, said.

“There’s not a lot of rental product in downtown KCK right now. We came in and pitched a 12 story tower right off the bat, David Wingerson, a developer with Flaherty and Collins Properties, said.

Flaherty …