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Title
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Quality Hill
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Description
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1987 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence - Silver Medal
Quality Hill in Kansas City, Missouri, transformed a deteriorating downtown historic district into mixed-income housing and retail to revitalize the neighborhood. Completed in 1985, the development spans four and a half blocks and includes the renovation of 13 historic buildings and the addition ten new buildings that together provide 363 low- and moderate-income apartments and 52,400 square feet of office and commercial space. The largest adaptive reuse project in the city’s history, Quality Hill helped restore the vitality of the once-thriving district by providing the first downtown housing development in over half a century.
Quality Hill is the result of an innovative partnership between the city, a St. Louis-based private developer, and local businesses and foundations—and the first public-private partnership to succeed in the city’s history. The engagement of a wide variety of public and private participants brought the community together in a process that sparked reinvestment in the central business district while preserving the unique character of the Quality Hill neighborhood.
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Coverage
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Kansas City, MO
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Date
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1987
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Subject
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mixed-use developments
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retail development
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mixed-income housing
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historic districts
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public-private sector cooperation
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Contributor
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Kansas City City Manager's Office
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Contributor
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Public Agency
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Kansas City Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority
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Contributor
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Public Agency
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McCormack, Baron and Associates
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Trivers Associates
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Peckham, Guyton, Albers & Viets, Inc.
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Contributor
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Landscape Architect
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Designer
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Historic Kansas City Foundation
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Contributor
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Community Group
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Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance
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Contributor
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Community Group
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Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City
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Contributor
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Community Group
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Rights
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