Historic Midwest Office Building Revived as Worker Housing

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Midland Lofts in Kansas City’s Power & Light District Offers 135 Market-Responsive Apartments.
At one time the corporate offices of AMC Theatres, Russell Stover Chocolates, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the 1927 Midland Office Building sat vacant for several years. Designed by architect Thomas White Lamb, the office building, along with the attached Midland Theatre, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Now, The Cordish Companies, the lead developer of Kansas City’s Power & Light District, has completed upgrading the complex it long considered “an underutilized historic jewel.” Ten years after renovating the Theatre in 2008 as part of the district’s revitalization, Cordish commissioned Kansas City-based Helix Architecture + Design to convert the Midland Office Building into much-needed worker-attainable housing...
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