In Kansas Metropolis’s historic West Bottoms neighborhood, HOK and S9 Structure are working with Somera Street to design a $527-million, mixed-use growth that features residences, places of work, retail, a boutique resort and open public area.

The location’s historical past—as the middle of town’s cattle commerce—was the main target of a latest article within the New York Occasions exploring how stockyards have change into a goal for funding and redevelopment.

“In Kansas Metropolis, the American Royal Livestock Present is breaking floor on a brand new $350 million, 127-acre suburban house. The West Bottoms neighborhood, the place the inventory present as soon as stood, is the main target of a $500-million funding. Ian Ross, the founding father of Somera Street, the West Bottoms’ developer, stated the undertaking is modeled on the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn the place, after many years of abandonment, rundown warehouses had been reborn as galleries and work areas beginning within the Nineteen Eighties.”

The undertaking goals to infuse the landmark district with density whereas preserving its historic material. The event of the six-block, 26-acre web site facilities round a big public gathering area and includes each renovation and new development.

“The West Bottoms was the place Kansas Metropolis was born, the place the cattle commerce started,” Ross informed the Occasions. “I feel persons are looking for these genuine, story-driven neighborhoods and are keen to assist convey them again to life, not like these new, considerably sterile mixed-use developments.”

Learn the complete story within the New York Occasions.