KCK HOUSING REVITALIZATION

2023-2024 | KCDC visionING study

Preface

In the Fall of 2023, Kansas City Design Center Urban Design Studio began the study of the Central Avenue Corridor from the Central Avenue Bridge West to 18th Street with a focus on the design of Bethany Park in Kansas City, Kansas. This corridor links five distinct neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas. The Bethany Park site is located on Central Avenue between 11th and 12th Street. It has been occupied by housing and a hospital throughout its history and is currently occupied by a community medical building, a park on the South end, and there is vacant land to the North half. The community had been interested in seeing a redevelopment of this site. Additionally, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County is interested in developing medium-density housing on a portion of the site. The Bethany Park Project aims to develop the existing Bethany Park and the vacant Bethany Hospital site to increase affordable housing availability and potentially boost the area’s economy. To accomplish this goal, the studio developed two master plans for the site and a collection of panelized housing units to envision what the site could become. 

UPCOMING PROJECT EVENTS:
The KCDC studio has completed this portion of the KCK Housing Revitalization project and will return to KCDC next semester to expand on the work.

Disclaimer: The KCDC functions as an academic visioning agency only, and does not implement or build the proposed designs from its academic projects. The research, study, and plans developed by the studio may be used by the City of KCK, or other applicable organizations to conduct their own development and implementation separate from the KCDC’s project. It is our hope that the studio’s visioning process acts as a conduit for the communities voice to be heard through the design proposal presented.