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Condos arriving in Westport

April 4, 2007 | 9 Comments

41 PennA little over 3 years ago business people and residents in Westport announced some big plans to remake the neighborhood with less focus on megaclubs and more options for living, dining, and shopping. The first tangible result of that plan is now taking shape in the heart of the neighborhood at 41st and Pennsylvania. The 41 Penn development will have 30-plus condos in a five story building, plus retail on the ground floor.

This is your chance to be within stumbling distance of Harpo’s or Kellly’s. Additional redevelopment plans call for residential on top of the Manor Square parking garage and a new mixed-used building to replace the Buzzard Beach parking lot on the south side of Westport Road between Mill and Penn.


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9 Comments so far

  1. Live in Westport at Sarah Says . . . on April 4, 2007 8:23 am

    [...] this article on BlogKC.com today. The ought to sell pretty well – there’s kind of a condo whole in between the Plaza and [...]

  2. Tim on April 4, 2007 8:24 am

    Like parking isn’t a nightmare in Westport already. I’ve also heard that highrise condos might be built in what is now the parking lot just north of Westport Coffee House.

  3. john on April 4, 2007 8:46 am

    Tim, there is plenty of parking in Westport, unless you are one of the fools that endlessly circle the block looking for a spot right in front of Kelly’s. The parking garage almost always has room, and you can even park on the street if you aren’t too lazy to work 4-5 blocks.

  4. kiki on April 4, 2007 9:47 am

    Here’s the important question: Since there’s going to be retail space on the ground floor, can we count on Starbucks to open a second Westport location?

  5. ScooterJ on April 4, 2007 10:53 am

    Ditto on the parking… there’s plenty. You’re gonna walk from place to place anyway. No one will miss that tiny little surface lot.

  6. Tim on April 5, 2007 8:11 am

    All you have to do is look across the street to Manor Square to realize Westport isn’t a very good area for retail. Manor square even used to have a food court, but there’s not much of anything in there now.

  7. ScooterJ on April 5, 2007 10:16 am

    Manor Square didn’t work because it’s a mall. When you’re in Westport you want to be outside… it’s how the dynamic of that place works. Not sequestered away inside a mall.

  8. Joe Medley on April 5, 2007 10:43 am

    “Plans to remake the neighborhood with less focus on megaclubs and more options for living, dining, and shopping.”

    This is the beginning of the end of Westport as we know it. When you consider that the Cordish company asked for and recieved an exemption to the city’s open container ordinance and that the mom and pop bar owners in westport will soon be competing with the 500 pound gorilla that is Cordish, I don’t know how it can go any other way.

  9. William Rockhill Nelson on April 5, 2007 12:28 pm

    That’s fine, Joe. Move the big clubs Downtown where there is room for them. I’m more than happy to return Westport to being a real neighborhood for the people that live and work there.

    Westport has never worked well as a regional entertainment district, which is something that should be downtown anyway.

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