As a result of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County (Kansas City Kansas) issuing a request for proposals (RFP) last year for a large parking lot at 4th and Minnesota, Indianapolis-based Flaherty & Collins has been selected to pursue a project there.

Planned is 2-phase project featuring 472 apartments, 26,650sf of commercial space, 28,300sf of new green space, and a 384 parking spaces spread out between a parking garage and surface spaces. 4th and Minnesota represents the biggest project to be unveiled in Downtown KCK in decades and is one of several projects that could transform the landscape of Downtown. Others include the redevelopment of the nearby Reardon Convention Center, a new apartment building at 6th and Ann, the redevelopment of the former UMB Bank Building at 6th and Minnesota, and a new building for the KCK Community College at 7th and State.

The first phase of the project is for a 12-story high-rise with 244 apartments looking out over the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas (Kaw) rivers, Kaw Point Park, the Wheeler Downtown Airport, and the Kansas City Missouri skyline and West Bottoms off to the right.

Phase 2 is planned to be a 5-7-story residential building with 228 apartments concealing a parking garage. Connecting both phases of the development will be a pedestrianized 4th Street (4th Street Market), which itself will be 14,000sf flexible market space. The remainder of the commercial space will front both Minnesota Avenue and the 4th Street pedestrian zone.

KEM Studio, an architecture firm based in the West Bottoms, is the architect of this project. KEM and Flaherty & Collins have worked together on a number of Kansas City-area projects including the Yards and the under construction “Helm” in the West Bottoms, and the City Harvest project at 5th and Main in the River Market.

KEM’s design for 4th and Minnesota is modern and clad in a mixture of roman brick and metal panels.

Per the RFP response, Flaherty & Collins intends to break ground on the project in the spring of 2025 and begin offering apartments to residents in the fall of 2026. Phase 1, the high-rise, will be fully completed by early 2027. Development costs are estimated at just under $74 Million.

Additional renderings of the project, a site plan, and Google aerial view are in the gallery below.