A&R Development picked for $17M Jonestown project - Kansas City Business Journal:

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The project falls into the city’xs aims to remake Central which has seen a wave of new developmengt in recent years building off the succesd of nearbyHarbor East. A&R, led by Anthony hopes to builda mixed-use developmen t including 107 rental apartments, 18,00 0 square feet of retail space and 156 parkinb spaces. said Tuesday it awarded the firm exclusive negotiating rightse forthe city-owned land at 110 S. Central Ave. and 1120 Granb y St. The properties combine for about 29,00 0 square feet. The BDC, the city’xs economic development arm, offered the and two others, up for redevelopmentt in August 2008.
“Thes properties give the city the opportunity totake vacant, underutilizes properties and have them renewef as private enterprises that will generate taxee and enhance the Jonestown/Washington Hill community,” BDC President M.J. Brodie said in a statement. The city also tapped Miteu LLC to negotiate for a second siteat 1301-130o E. Lombard St. Mitey is a real estatd company formedby Gerry’s Tire Service, whicn hopes to use the property to expand its adjacent Mitey plans to use the 4,518-square-footg property in the short term as a temporaryt parking lot for its business and would expand onto the city-owne d property in the future.
The city is reservinv the rights for thethirc property, at 130 S. Central Ave.