Currently in preliminary design, Epoch Developments' The Market Commons would place a two-level shipping container project at a prominent River Market site along the streetcar route.

Despite a record year for capital investment in 2020, Kansas Lt. Gov. and Commerce Secretary David Toland said he is "not satisfied" and thinks the state has significantly more potential to realize from an economic development standpoint.

Despite a record year for capital investment in 2020, Kansas Lt. Gov. and Commerce Secretary David Toland said he is "not satisfied" and thinks the state has significantly more potential to realize from an economic development standpoint.

A trio of recent building transactions in Midtown underscores the continuing desirability of investment and redevelopment along Kansas City's future southern streetcar route, which has seen transactions involving dozens of sites and millions of dollars in recent years.

VanTrust Real Estate's second building in Raymore Commerce Center is slated for delivery in the fall of 2022, as one of several coming large-scale industrial projects around Kansas City.

Through a 225-apartment project on portions of the Deer Creek Golf Club, a real estate group hopes to simultaneously safeguard the Overland Park course with a $5 million capital investment, including to stabilize flooding issues with Tomahawk Creek, and meet what it says is a need for more city housing.