When a developer snaps up a cluster of houses in Kansas City’s urban core, especially from a major institution like the University of Missouri–Kansas City, flashy renderings of glassy mixed-use projects seem to follow.
That’s not the plan in Rockhill Crest.
Local firm CORE Urban Renew is purchasing 10 homes from UMKC along 53rd to 55th streets, between Troost and Holmes, just south of the Volker campus. Instead of demolition, CORE intends to restore the century-old houses, many of them Craftsman style, and return them to the market…