5 FUN PROJECTS IN CITY RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE AND AT YOUR FEET Steff Hedenkamp President + Founder Red Quill Communicaons, Inc. WBE Cerfied Who IS Steff Hedenkamp?

• Writer, editor, strategic communicaons pro • Working on many incredible iniaves • Serving many amazing clients • Intrinsic partner + connector • Wearing lots of hats + foster forward moon • Providing valuable creavity + crical insight • Working with clients at inflecon points • Communicaons + strengthening business What ARE the 5 Fun Projects?

Kansas City Kessler Park Electric Park Tiny Homes The McFadden Museum Improvements in the Veterans Brothers Restoraon East Booms Village 18th and Vine Experience

FUN PROJECT NO. 1 The Kansas City Museum Restoraon Project • Anna Marie Tutera • Internaonal Architects Atelier (IAA) • Restoring the Museum • Honoring the Planning • Building Capacity • Defining clearly the museum’s role and impact in the redevelopment and revitalizaon of the Historic Northeast area and Kansas City

FUN PROJECT NO. 1 The Kansas City Museum Restoraon Project This is a mul-phase, mul-year project. Early 2017 construcon start on the lower level and first floor of the mansion. Museum will connue to collect, preserve, and interpret Kansas City's local and regional history through exhibions, programs, and events, that illuminate and celebrate Kansas City's past, Phases of Design: present, and future. • Discovery Phase Museum to serve as City's • Master Planning official venue for the Mayor. • Design Development + Construcon Documents

FUN PROJECT NO. 1 The Kansas City Museum Restoraon Project Previous work at the museum since 2006: • Masonry Restoraon and Roof Replacement of Corinthian Hall (2006) • Door and Window Replacement at Corinthian Hall and Carriage House (2008) • New HVAC at Corinthian Hall and Carriage House (2010)

FUN PROJECT NO. 1 The Kansas City Museum Restoraon Project Present work at the museum 2015-2016: • Exterior Masonry and Roof Condions Survey • Hazardous Materials Survey • Site Ulity Survey • Site Survey • Soil Borings • Exisng Condions Field Measurement • Design Workshops

FUN PROJECT NO. 1 The Kansas City Museum Restoraon Project Areas of focus for the future restored museum: • Educaon • Cultural Diversity • Arts + Culture • Historic + Neighborhood Preservaon • Livability • Economic Development

The Kansas City Museum

“The Kansas City Museum should strive to become … a catalyc stabilizing force for the surrounding Northeast neighborhood …” “The Kansas City Museum is a place … that connects other instuons and aracons in Kansas City and ‘where it all begins’ for visitors wishing to understand our city’s history.”

VISIONING THE KANSAS CITY MUSEUM 2015 The Rebirth of the KC Museum

• The Collecon is the Core • Sharing + Connecng Kansas City’s Past, Present + Future (Object + Narrave, Parcipatory) • Learning + Discovery + Conversaon • History + Muldisciplinary + Mulple Points of Entry • Interpretaon, Preservaon, Perspecve + Acon • Tradions, Heritage + Legacies • Individuals, Organizaons, Neighborhoods + Systems • Recepon Venue for the City (Mayor) • Instuon, Desnaon + Aracon Potenal Offerings of the KC Museum

• Tours • Rentals • Adult Programs • Creave Interpreve Technologies • Family Programs • Research Library • School Programs • Access to Collecons • Teen Programs • Visible Storage • Classes, Workshops, Lectures, • Awards Programs Symposia • Public Art + Architectural Follies • Professional Development • Café and/or Restaurant • Resources for Educators (Curriculum • Store Development) • Arst-in-Residence / • Special Events (fundraisers, concerts, Historian-in-Residence cultural days, performances, etc.) • • Exhibions + Installaons Oral History + Media Projects Next Steps for the KC Museum

• Complete design master planning and Convene another public open house for the design (open house on December 9, 2015) • Prepare strategic plan and business plan to support the proposed design • Design development + construcon documents

FUN PROJECT NO. 2 Kessler Park Improvements Previous work at Kessler Park since 2006: • Stone curbing to control stormwater is 40% complete. • 3 historic staircases restored: to the west of the Kansas City Museum, north of the Colonnade on the backside, and Prospect Point. • New signage on Cliff Drive, that is now one way going east for vehicles, walking and biking is west-bound lane. FUN PROJECT NO. 2 Kessler Park Improvements Previous work at Kessler Park since 2006: • Flying disc courses. • Playground with Kaboom at Concord Park (At Anderson and Gladstone, south of the Colonnade) by Scarri Renaissance and Pendleton Heights. • Mountain bike trails by Urban Trail Company and volunteer groups. FUN PROJECT NO. 2 Kessler Park Improvements Previous work at Kessler Park since 2006: • Sidewalk improvements along Lexington. • Historic stone wall repairs at the east end around Indian Mound (Gladstone and Belmont) FUN PROJECT NO. 2 Kessler Park Improvements Present + proposed future work at Kessler Park: • Concrete slide under construcon to be completed this spring at the playground at Kessler Park (At Anderson and Gladstone, south of the Colonnade) by Scarri Renaissance and Pendleton Heights. • Proposed walking trail, tennis court improvements to make tennis, Futsal, and basketball courts with new outdoor lighng and fencing, and portable toilet enclosures at Kessler Park near Concourse Fountain. FUN PROJECT NO. 2 Kessler Park Improvements Proposed future work at Kessler Park: Cliff Drive Corridor Management Commiee (represents all of the neighborhoods in Historic NE) brought some ideas to the Parks Department a few weeks ago: • Nature Trails Signage • Pump-track Trails (dirt bikes, mountain bikes) • Sculpture and Artwork Trail near the KC Museum • Repurposing of Reservoir • Dog Park • Rock Climbing • Public Wi-Fi

FUN PROJECT NO. 3 Electric Park in the East Booms History of Electric Park: The early 1900s East Booms area was home to the Heim Brewing Co., the largest pre-prohibion brewery in Kansas City and the fih largest beer brewer in the naon. The Heim family had other enterprises in early Kansas City, such as the Fih Street car line and the Home Telephone Company. FUN PROJECT NO. 3 Electric Park in the East Booms History of Electric Park: In order to draw patrons to their beer gardens, the brewery: 1. Invested heavily in the city’s street car system which was then run to the East Booms, and 2. Constructed the Electric Park, Kansas City’s first , illuminated with electric light, a novelty at the me. FUN PROJECT NO. 3 Electric Park in the East Booms History of Electric Park: Electric Park featured • Daily fireworks • • Skang rinks • Bandstands • A train whose track ringed the grounds • German beer garden • Bathing facilies • Boang and rides • A Vaudeville and light opera theater that seated 2,800

FUN PROJECT NO. 3 Electric Park in the East Booms The Future of Electric Park: The Heim Brewing complex was comprised of several structures including a brewhouse, firestaon, and boling warehouse. John McDonald first discovered the Heim Bole Shop when he was working as a carpenter and the building housed Case cabinet supply. Photo by Sabrina Staires The rich history of this Kansas City beer company has inspired him to re- invest in the area.

FUN PROJECT NO. 3 Electric Park in the East Booms The Future of Electric Park: John McDonald has teamed up with Jamie Jeffries to found Booms Up Collecve, LLC. They are honoring the area’s history of food, fun, drink, and entertainment. Five small businesses have relocated to East Booms due to Booms Up Collecve’s efforts, Photo by Sabrina Staires creang approx. 40 paid posions. Local Pig opened in 2012, Urban Provisions General Store in 2013.

FUN PROJECT NO. 3 Electric Park in the East Booms The Future of Electric Park: State and Naonal Historic Registry has been sought for the Bole Shop building, white box remodel plans have been approved, and a phase one environmental survey on the area has been done. A series of community events have been held in order to engage the neighbors. FUN PROJECT NO. 3 Electric Park in the East Booms The Future of Electric Park: Urban agriculture projects will bolster a space where one can make, eat, learn about, and interact with local food + food makers. A commissary kitchen will allow for incubang select local vendors and partnering with established local food/ community organizaons. Photo by Sabrina Staires Helping to create a sustainable, hyper-local ecosystem will be an asset for the East Booms.

FUN PROJECT NO. 4 Tiny Homes Veterans Village • Veterans Community Project, 501(c)(3), founded by Chris Stout and Kevin Jamison, who served in the Army and Air Force before dedicang their lives to helping other veterans. • The Land Bank of Kansas City, • Makes use of the large stock of vacant lots and abandoned and foreclosed homes in the metro area. FUN PROJECT NO. 4 Tiny Homes Veterans Village • The veterans homeless crisis in Kansas City is pervasive, urgent, and debilitang. • Social service agencies esmate about 1,800 veterans are in need of permanent housing in the Kansas City area, however other esmates suggest the number is more than 9,000 veterans, with an addional 6,000 veterans on the edge of losing their permanent housing. FUN PROJECT NO. 4 Tiny Homes Veterans Village • Veterans oen waste hours per day seeking shelter, hindering their capacity to parcipate in income- generang acvies. • The Veterans Village program spurs new home building on vacant lands in established neighborhoods. • The program will benefit area veterans who are homeless, who need a temporary place to live as they get on their feet, and want to live with dignity.

FUN PROJECT NO. 4 Tiny Homes Veterans Village • Some veterans do not feel as comfortable living in group environments and would feel more secure in their own place, living independently. • Urban modern interior features within tradional style Tiny Homes provide a whole lot of room within their small floor plans, and provide a great example of what can be built on the smallest of Kansas City’s vacant lots.

FUN PROJECT NO. 5 The McFadden Brothers 18th and Vine Experience • An interacve, family- friendly, world-class, Vegas-style jazz show that is offered on a permanent basis in Kansas City, MO. • Offered 4-6 mes per week for 10 months per year for show-goers to genuinely relive KC jazz heritage. • Generates new commerce, preserves musical viability, and brings Kansas City jazz greats and jazz to life for local residents and 24 million annual visitors. Photo by Dan White FUN PROJECT NO. 5 The McFadden Brothers 18th and Vine Experience • Show features jazz, dance, song + comedy headlined by the arstry, talent, and producon know-how of the mul-talented McFadden Brothers. • Bouque “show packages” will encompass other features beyond ckets to the show including dinner at area restaurants, tours, aer-show drinks, hotels, tour bus links, charter companies, and chauffeured limousines. Photo by Dan White FUN PROJECT NO. 5 The McFadden Brothers 18th and Vine Experience The show enhances the Kansas City experience by: • Providing an authenc and permanent jazz desnaon with long-term appeal for tourists + convenoneers. • Establishing a jobs / work study program for musicians and technicians. • Ensuring a culturally and historically significant show. • Revitalizing KC’s heritage • Energizing pride in KC’s jazz tradions. FUN PROJECT NO. 5 The McFadden Brothers 18th and Vine Experience The show enhances the Kansas City experience by: • Generang incremental local revenues and taxes • Building traffic, interest, and economic vitality • Providing a focal point for igning addional development in Kansas City Educaonal partnerships with Mutual Musicians Foundaon + UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance will train the next generaon of KC entertainers.

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