Project Overview

Beacon Hill is a mixed-income, mixed-use historic Kansas City neighborhood within walking distance of Hospital Hill, Crown Center and Union Station, and a stone’s throw from Downtown. The neighborhood is a 353 Redevelopment Area (Missouri statute) with 25-year tax abatement (100% for 10 years; 50% for 15 years).

Revitalized as a Traditional Neighborhood Design development—the area has a pedestrian orientation and streetscape, rear lanes for garage access, and open space—Beacon Hill includes over 300 building sites for single-family homes, attached and detached, in addition to 100 fully renovated traditional and historic homes. In addition, the historic Robinson Hospital, built in 1914, is now adaptively reused as the Residences of West Paseo, a 46-unit senior living development featuring a resident lounge, community room and sun terrace.

Neighborhood residents were actively involved in the planning for their community, participating in focus groups, neighborhood association meetings, and convenings required as part of the Section 106 Review, including those with the Missouri SHPO for resident input and approval for the documenting, mapping and mothballing of 4 historically significant colonnade-style, 6-unit apartment buildings and 3 Victorian-style single-family homes.

Project management and financing included a $10 million HUD Section 108 loan for acquisition, relocation and condemnation, $1.5 million grant from EPA for water, sewer and storm drainage infrastructure, and $1.2 Brownfields Economic Development Initiative grant to remediate a former gas station, dry cleaners and underground heating oil tank at the former Robinson Hospital.