20 months after the now defunct RideKC Development Corporation declined an incentive request by Mac Properties for their 1 West Armour project, the project has returned.

The project would see the US Bank Building at Main and Armour redeveloped along with the demolition of a single-story commercial building on 36th and Rancho’s Mexican Restaurant at 36th and Main. In their place, plans call for 300 apartments and 191 parking spaces along with 25,000sf of retail space fronting Main Street and split between a new building and in the redeveloped US Bank Building. On Armour, a new building there will feature walk-up units helping tie the new building into the fabric of the neighborhood a bit better.

Mac Properties approached the City’s Planned Industrial Expansion Authority (PIEA) for the approval of an incentive to kick start the transformative project. The request? A 15-year, 95% tax abatement in addition to a sales tax exemption on construction materials. Combined, the value of the incentive totals $9.3 million. Despite the incentive issuance, the impact to the City will be big in the way that additional property tax revenue and sales tax revenues are generated. If any residents in the buildings are new residents to the City, that’s additional City earnings tax revenue.

1 West Armour also sits at the future Armour Streetcar stop, allowing residents the opportunity to utilize the Streetcar to get to work, school, entertainment venues, restaurants, bars, shops and more. As such, this project is a transit oriented development (TOD), which can mean a lower than 1:1 parking ratio (as we see with this proposal being .64:1).

Mac is almost solely responsible for redeveloping the Armour corridor from Broadway to just past Troost. Grand old large apartment buildings (some of which were hotels) and old style colonnades line the street and offer a mixture of housing types at various price points. Mac has also developed 6 new buildings along this stretch starting with 3435 Main in 2017, 520 East Armour in 2021, and is wrapping up construction on the “Crosswalks” development at Troost and Armour (4 buildings on all corners of the intersection). 1 West Armour would further strengthen the corridor and allow its success to “spill” over onto Main Street. The construction of new buildings, and the renovations of others, have allowed the Midtown/Hyde Park area to thrive in recent years.

1 West Armour’s project timeline calls for demolitions of Ranchos and the single-story commercial building on 36th Street to occur in April 2026 with construction on the project formally beginning in September 2026. Construction will then take around a year and half with leasing beginning in March 2028.

Hufft is the architect for this project. A general contractor has not yet been named. Project costs are estimated at $101.5 Million.