Unique Homeownership Opportunity in Historic Beacon Hill Neighborhood

Information provided by the City of Kansas City, Mo

In 2000, Beacon Hill- once one of the most prominent neighborhoods in Kansas City’s African-American community- was a shell of its former self. Bordered by The Paseo and Troost east to west and 22nd to 27th Street north to south, the Beacon Hill neighborhood was mostly vacant lots and abandoned homes. That has changed dramatically!

Thanks to an effort between the City of Kansas City, Mo., neighborhood leadership and several community business partners, Beacon Hill has witnessed a renaissance.

Several new residential and commercial developments in recent years make this is a great time to live in Beacon Hill. Since 2011, more than 50 new homes have been built on once empty neighborhood ground and in 2013, the construction of UMKC student housing at 24th and Troost adjacent to Hospital Hill added 126 graduate and medical student apartments to the area. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in the summer of 2018 on a new 90 room hotel with retail space near 23rd and Troost and Milhaus Development is constructing 189 apartments with a retail component at 27th and Troost. Those two projects alone are valued at more than $32 million.

“UMKC’s student housing construction though, is what really got this wave of new residential and commercial development going in Beacon Hill,” Wood said. “It was the single largest new development on the east side of Troost and it was symbolic in crossing the racial divide associated with it.”

In the last 15 years, the City of Kansas City, Mo. has invested more than $20 million in the Beacon Hill neighborhood and when existing projects are completed, the private sector investment will total more than $150 million. More importantly, existing owners have not been displaced and many of those owners are remodeling and rehabbing their homes.

“What’s happening at Beacon Hill is truly an example of a public-private partnership working seamlessly to transform and revitalize a neighborhood,” Wood said.

Urban style meets suburban chic in the design and build of new homes in the historic Beacon Hill neighborhood.

While beautifully, modern-designed new homes dot historic Beacon Hill, many long-time neighbors are remodeling and rehabbing their existing homes, bringing a wonderful mix of old and new to a neighborhood that is on the rise.



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