Community Builders of Kansas City is continuing progress on its major developments: Offices at Overlook, The Rochester on Blue Parkway and Blue Parkway Sun Fresh. Offices at Overlook is CBKC’s $80 - $100 million mixed-use district comprising 180,000 square feet of Class A office space, 19,000 square feet of [...]
Kansas City has a crisis of homelessness and housing insecurity affecting thousands of residents that is directly tied to the massive loss of employment due to the pandemic. Tara Raghuveer is founding director of KC Tenants, an organization dedicated to ensuring everyone in the metropolitan area has a safe, [...]
Community Builders of Kansas City’s 2020-2023 strategic plan lays out five goals – 1. Increase organizational capacity, 2. Develop an integrated entrepreneurial model, 3. Build and maintain financial stability, 4. Empower families and communities and 4. Implement a comprehensive communications strategy. Each details the evidence required to prove progress [...]
Irving Blue Joins CBKC as Senior Real Estate Analyst Emmet Pierson, Jr., chief executive officer of Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC), announced today that Irving Blue has joined the organization as senior real estate analyst. Blue is responsible for asset management of CBKC’s growing [...]
Sacking groceries at Milgrim’s on 24 Highway & Noland Road in Independence launched what has now been a more than 30-year career in the grocery business for John King, the new store director for Sun Fresh on Blue Parkway. In May, Community Builders of Kansas City announced that it [...]
We Code KC was founded in 2019 by Tammy Buckner and Dr. Philip Hickman to help ensure kids in the urban core have equal access to technology. Its free classes expose kids ages 7-17 to computer programming, technology and cyber security in hopes of igniting interest and expanding racial [...]
Retirement of Previous Operator Opens Door to Refresh of Blue Parkway’s Sun Fresh Community Builders of Kansas City, the area’s largest urban core developer, announced today it will become the owner / operator of the Sun Fresh on Blue Parkway, one of the few full-service [...]
On June 30, 2020, Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC) will become the owner/operator of Sun Fresh on Blue Parkway following the retirement of the current operator. While the COVID-19 pandemic will dictate aspects of the transition process, CBKC’s commitment is to develop over time a best-in-class grocery store [...]
Community Builders of Kansas City is in the planning stages of developing a mixed-use property on 11 acres that will transform the corner of Swope Parkway and Chestnut Avenue. Plans for the estimated $80 - $100 million project include 180,000 square feet of Class A office space, 19,000 square [...]
MO Hives KC broke ground on the area’s first urban bee farm April 25, 2020, on vacant property owned by Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC), at 5030 Wabash. Across the street from the thriving Blue Hills Community Garden, the bee farm is the first of many the organization [...]