Keller Williams agent Leah Taylor (above) at 3010 W. 84th Terrace, and Reece & Nichols agents Susan Fate and Diana Resnick (below) all showed off their listings in the Cloisters subdivision over the weekend now that the weather has turned for the better (and hopefully the economy). They especially wanted to point out the state-of-the-art [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Busy weekend in the Cloisters, Q&A with agent Sara Armer
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Q&A with Chase Simmons
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010With construction underway, Polsinelli Shughart PC Attorney Chase Simmons is lead counsel for a new development project in western Wyandotte County that will include the Kansas City Wizards’ new soccer complex and the new regional office for Cerner Corporation.
The development, generally considered the largest economic development project in the history of the state of Kansas, will [...]
Happy Hour benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Friday, March 26th, 2010Earlier this month on Thursday, March 11th MetroWireKC hosted its first real estate happy hour benefiting the 2010 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Man of the Year Campaign. MetroWire’s very own Charlie Nielsen is a candidate for this year’s Man of the Year Campaign. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society plays a fundamental role in helping to provide financial and [...]
Q&A with Mac Crowther
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010With approximately three decades of commercial real estate experience under his belt, Mac Crowther is the principal for Apartment Realty Advisors’ Central office which is based in Kansas City. ARA is the largest privately held, full-service investment advisory brokerage firm in the nation that focuses exclusively on the multi-housing industry. Over his career, Crowther has [...]
Northland’s Benson Place gives area some competition, mother-daughter team on top of their game
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Who would have thought that one of the most surprising shifts in local residential development this decade would be Kansas City, Mo.’s emergence as the leading location for new housing? Kansas City, primarily in its wide-open Northland north of the Missouri River, began beating out Olathe, Overland Park and Lee’s Summit in yearly single-family housing [...]
Rose breaks ground, Lane 4 welcomes BRGR, CCIM member heading to Haiti
Friday, March 19th, 2010Rose Construciton broke ground recently on a 9,000-square-foot office/manufacturing center at Parkside Business Center near Ridgeview and Kansas City Road in Olathe. Above, owner Morgan Rose with project manager Michael Doran, owner Chris Herre, and architect Chris Bell. “We expect completion to be the middle of August, weather permitting,” Herre said. “The concrete wall panels [...]
Q&A with Brian Beggs
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Brian R. Beggs is currently Director of Acquisitions for Block Real Estate Services and a Principal in all of the Block Funds. He joined Block in January of 2003 as a financial analyst and helped start the Block Funds in July of 2004. Over the past five years, the Block Funds have raised over $55 [...]
Point Commercial makes its mark, author talks urbanism, BOMA in Washington
Friday, March 12th, 2010Last March wasn’t the best economic climate to be launching a new business, especially in commercial real estate. But with more than a decade of commercial real estate experience behind him, Jared Frost forged ahead and founded Point Commercial.
And now that he and the other company principals, Erik Murray and Jeff Dozier, are approaching the company’s [...]
Q&A with Diana Ennis of Stewart Title
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Diana Ennis is the Downtown Branch Manager of Stewart Title Company, Midwest Division, leading an escrow closing and underwriting staff in the procurement, processing and closing of approximately 500 commercial real estate transactions per year throughout Kansas and Missouri. The Branch also offers full residential title origination and escrow closing services. Ennis also is the [...]
KCIC gives out ‘Brick by Brick’ Awards, B2B gathers at Pitney Bowes building
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010The Kansas City Industrial Council (KCIC), the voice for infrastructure, recently awarded its ”Brick by Brick Awards” to industrial businesses that have made significant investment and contributions to Kansas City’s economy. The awards luncheon was held at the College Basketball Experience, where guests, including Rachel Norton with Tetra Tech and Gerald Smith with Kansas City, Mo., (above) tried out [...]