West Bottoms Weekly: First Moline Building Residents Expected by March 1
The first apartments in SomeraRoad's West Bottoms project are nearly done, and the Rock Island Bridge has added a magic show and a square dance to its November calendar. Here's what's new in the neighborhood this week.
Moline building: residents targeted for March 1
Axios Kansas City toured the Moline Plow Company building at 11th and Mulberry with SomeraRoad's vice president of development, Grant Hromas, as its top three floors near completion. The building's 121 apartments are the first of more than 1,200 units planned for the West Bottoms over the next 10 to 15 years. Hromas expects the new streets and most of the work in the Moline building to be finished by the end of the year, residents to start moving in by March 1, and The Depot park at 11th and Santa Fe to be done by spring. He also said up to 70% of the construction so far has been underground, as crews installed new utilities and turned up undocumented railway lines and buried concrete foundations.
Axios Kansas City: See SomeraRoad's West Bottoms projects from the top floor (Nov. 9) · Earlier: the Moline building's first tenants
New on the Rock Island Bridge: Houdini and a harvest square dance
The Rock Island Bridge, at 1799 American Royal Drive, has added new events for November:
- Friday, Nov. 13, 5 to 6 p.m.: a free Friday the 13th Time Travel Series special on Harry Houdini's ties to Kansas City, with podcast host Jason Nivens and a live magic act by Dennis Burks, upstairs in American Royal Hall.
- Saturday, Nov. 14, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: the Cortadito Coffee Pop Up on the bridge's West Truss.
- Saturday, Nov. 21, 7 to 11 p.m.: a Harvest Square Dance in American Royal Hall, presented by Waldo Folk, with The Lost Keys String Band and caller Emma Neighbour. $15 if you register ahead, $20 at the door.
Rock Island Bridge: Houdini special · Cortadito Coffee Pop Up · Harvest Square Dance
On the calendar
- Dec. 9: HWBA Annual Holiday Open House, 6 to 9 p.m., Fuego Cantina & Events, 1412 W 12th St. Neighbors, members and friends of the West Bottoms are welcome. Event details
See everything on our events calendar.
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