Northeast News

July 1, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Missouri – What was once lost has now been found.

Despite assurances to the contrary, artistic window dressings that once adorned the vacant property at 3512 Independence Avenue were taken down and sold to an unnamed buyer for $600 after the property was demolished this spring. The artwork, provided by local artists, was originally part of an urban art initiative in the fall of 2011 designed to brighten up a blighted building along Independence Avenue.

“We just want to do something good for our community,” Executive Director of Northeast Arts KC Rebecca Koop told the Northeast News at the time. “There’s plenty of buildings that are boarded up. Ultimately, we’d like to see the buildings repurchased and somebody back in there, but in the meantime, we have something a little better and more interesting to look at.”

Thanks to the dedication of Koop, those boards have now been tracked to a wrecking yard in the Lake Quivira area. Koop has made arrangements to pick up the artwork sometime next week.