By Paul Thompson
Northeast News
November 30, 2016
KANSAS CITY, Missouri – The planned $4.8 million renovation of the Pendleton Flats apartment complex could be completed by the summer of 2017, according to a representative from the developer, Brinshore Development, LLC.
Brinshore Vice President Todd Lieberman joined the Northeast Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, November 22 to give an update on Pendleton Flats, which is one of several housing developments being undertaken in the Northeast after a $30 million Choice Neighborhoods grant was issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2015 to target the redevelopment of the Paseo Gateway area.
The first project completed as part of the redevelopment was Rose Hill Townhomes, located at Admiral and Troost. Pendleton Flats, to be located adjacent to Independence Plaza Park off of Independence and Brooklyn Avenues, is the second project to begin development.
“It’s closing hopefully today, and it will start construction within a week to renovate 30 units of the old Brooklyn Heights apartment complex,” said Lieberman during the November 22 Chamber luncheon. “We are the developer with the Housing Authority working on that. It will be a mix of two-bedroom and one-bedrooms.”
Lieberman added that the Pendleton Flats development will be a mixed-income residence, with a certain number of units reserved for former residents of the Chouteau Courts housing project being razed as part of the Paseo Gateway work.
“If you’re living at Chouteau Courts, you’ll be given an option to live in any of these communities; you don’t have to take it,” explained Lieberman. “You can decide to get a voucher and move anywhere else in the city.”
Those who do decide to move into Pendleton Flats will be met with a like-new facility. Lieberman noted that aside from some of the more attractive features of the current building, the vast majority of the structure will be completely replaced during the renovation.
“That project will, at the end of the day, be a complete gut rehab,” Lieberman said. “So the entire building will look completely new while preserving some of the best characteristics of the building – which are beautiful balconies, really nice floor plans on the two-bedrooms – but then adding nice finishes.”
The rehab work is expected to continue through the winter. The development is expected to begin filling units before the fall of 2017.