Kansas City’s downtown revives empty office towers with ‘adaptive reuse’

[davidknmo]

I live in downtown KC and I think this is a really neat conversion of an old office building. According to google only about 22,000 people live downtown which seems really low to me? Projects like these should bring more people downtown

[SPonteK]

Originally Posted by memph

Probably about 5 square miles for KC's 20,000

2.9 sq. miles for the "official" downtown they are using, though a significant portion of that is in what most people here would consider downtown-adjacent neighborhoods like Westside, Columbus Park and Longfellow/Dutch Hill, as well as the Crossroads, which is more properly "downtown" in the sense that it is a former light industrial district immediately south of the CBD. That area also include a large urban park, maybe 1/4 or 1/3 of a square mile.

[Centropolis]

http://ryanwiksell.com

they really should have called it "central city," or something like that. however, it is a way to bring a number of neighborhoods under one unified umbrella and it has the effect of boosting population numbers. is it slightly disingenuous, probably. many of those neighborhoods arent even close to being "downtown" in the sense of what a vast majority of people consider downtown. union hill is absolutely not even borderline downtown. however, they are marketing to a lot of people who probably consider the entire urban core "downtown," in a way. so it really doesn't matter.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by s.davis

2.9 sq. miles for the "official" downtown they are using, though a significant portion of that is in what most people here would consider downtown-adjacent neighborhoods like Westside, Columbus Park and Longfellow/Dutch Hill, as well as the Crossroads, which is more properly "downtown" in the sense that it is a former light industrial district immediately south of the CBD. That area also include a large urban park, maybe 1/4 or 1/3 of a square mile.

6.23 square miles per wikipedia, which i think is the downtown council definition.

[CastleScott]

Great stuff here and way to go KC, besides cutting down on VMT these residential properties create a much better alternative to the wasted time sitting in awful traffic plus awesome re-use of historic structures..