A new Port Improvement District is expected to generate significant funding to support operations and maintenance for the future 0.7-mile streetcar extension to the Berkley Riverfront.

After receiving new support from Country Club Plaza neighbors, Drake Development LLC asks the Port Authority of Kansas City for incentives at its Cocina 47 mixed-use proposal, which will replace The Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist. The $35 million project could break ground later this year.

Kansas City's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority advanced a measure that would allow homeowners and investors to receive property tax abatement for rehabilitation projects on the East Side.

AltosGroups LLC and the developers behind inactive hotel projects in downtown Kansas City and Edwardsville have agreed to settlement terms that would return cash deposits. That most of the funds are in a foreign national's bank account has complicated matters in AltosGroups' Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Kansas City planners on Tuesday unanimously recommended approval of a 27-story mixed-use high-rise plan, through which St. Louis-based Lux Living would build 300 apartments and 200 hotel rooms northeast of 14th and Wyandotte streets.

NorthPoint Development has started work on a 528-panel, 230-kilowatt rooftop solar array at its recently renovated Northland headquarters at the former Cerner Oaks Campus property.