Kansas City Height Adjustment Saves Country Club Plaza?!?

This think piece is worth a look but offers to many words for a simple question . . . 

WILL SKYSCRAPERS SAVE THE PLAZA?!?

 The distant cousins of the Hunt family are soon to spend MILLIONS trying to find out . . . Or turn the whole place into Section 8 housing in the process . . . Check-it . . . 

"Kansas City council members recently approved a zoning amendment that allows for a 275-foot-tall, 18- to 20-story building to fill the large vacant lot (4720 Jefferson St., KCMO) on the west side of the Plaza. The unanimous vote more than doubled the existing 130-foot height limit for the site, which Plaza owners say is necessary to attract developers and businesses to the area.

"The eyesore of a hole was originally dug out to accommodate a Nordstrom store that never materialized. In April 2022, Nordstrom and the Plaza’s previous owners mutually agreed to halt the luxury department store’s planned relocation from Oak Park Mall, leaving the Plaza site empty."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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