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Wyandotte County’s transformation into a premier entertainment destination is underway, with Sunflower Development Group leading a Margaritaville hotel project among several high-profile ventures.

Kansas City is set to gain hundreds of new apartments by 2027 along the expanding streetcar corridor, with Port KC-approved tax breaks supporting three developments, including the ambitious Streetcar Lofts by Sunflower Development Group.

Missouri Life magazine recently featured the historic Longview Mansion, highlighting its rich history and stunning transformation into a modern event venue.

A new apartment complex, Streetcar Lofts, is set to enhance Kansas City’s southern streetcar extension near Union Hill and Martini Corner, bringing 240 modern apartments to the area.

Kansas City had a record-breaking tourism year in 2023, with 13 million overnight visitors contributing nearly $7 billion in spending and generating $6.7 billion in economic impact. The Ambassador Hotel on Grand Street benefited from this surge, welcoming many visitors and enhancing its economic performance.

The Mission City Council approved $5 million in incentives for phase two of The Lanes at Mission Bowl, a project by Sunflower Development Group. The second phase will add 96 apartments to downtown Mission, with 20% reserved for lower-income tenants and plans for LEED certification.

Sunflower Development Group is pursuing tax incentives for a second phase of apartments at the former Mission Bowl site in Mission, Kansas. The first phase, The Lanes at Mission Bowl Apartments, is nearing completion with 168 units, and the proposed second phase aims to add 96 apartments along with retail space. The City Council is considering creating a tax increment financing (TIF) district to support the development.

Port KC approved $362 million in bonds on Monday in a deal with Block Real Estate Services and Sunflower Development to fund two projects that will bring 600 new apartments to the Country Club Plaza.

Port KC has approved $41.9 million in incentives for two projects totaling $353 million, bringing 600 new apartments to the Country Club Plaza area. The projects include The Madison, a 279-unit tower by Block Real Estate Services, and the Plaza Corporate Centre offices, a mixed-use development, by Block and Sunflower Development Group.

Kansas City developers are planning to build 600 high-end apartments near the Country Club Plaza with a combined investment of $353 million. The projects include The Madison, a 279-unit luxury tower by Block Real Estate Services, and a mixed-use development by Block and Sunflower Development Group featuring 119 market-rate apartments and 202 additional units.

A development team comprised of Sunflower Development Group and GSSW Real Estate Investments accepts a 2024 Capstone Award from the Kansas City Business Journal for The Oxbow, a mixed-used project located at 215 E. 18th Avenue, North Kansas City, MO.

Sunflower Development Group is developing the $150 million hotel in partnership with Homefield KC and the Margaritaville brand in Kansas City, Kansas. The 229-room hotel sits at the center of the $848 million Homefield development, near Interstate 70 and Interstate 435.

Amethyst Place received $2 million from MacKenzie Scott, a billionaire, philanthropist and author, which will support its affordable housing expansion project. The nonprofit is a long-term supportive housing program for women and children recovering from generational substance use, poverty and trauma.

Amethyst Place, a Kansas City nonprofit focused on providing supportive housing has received $2 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to help build affordable long-term residences east of Troost Avenue.

Changes made to a planned multifamily residential development in Lenexa gained unanimous approval from the city’s planning commission this week.

The Lenexa Planning Commission on Monday voted 7-0 to approve rezoning and a preliminary plat for The Residences at Woodsonia, a development between Woodsonia Drive and Monticello Road. Commissioners Cara Wagner and Mike Burson were absent.

Sunflower Development Group is seeking approval from the City Council to rezone approximately 38 acres located south of 83rd Street, between Woodsonia Drive and Monticello Road, to make way for The Residences on Woodsonia housing project.

Sunflower Development Group, LLC, has joined forces with Margaritaville and the locally-based Homefield KC to reveal the upcoming $150 million Margaritaville Hotel in Kansas City, Kansas, currently under construction. Boasting 229 rooms, the hotel will offer a variety of amenities, including an outdoor resort-style pool, an indoor pool, family-friendly entertainment and activities, meeting and event spaces, a retail location, and Margaritaville-inspired restaurants and bars.

Kansas City-based Sunflower Development Group has filed plans to develop over 300 multifamily units in Lenexa called The Residences on Woodsonia.

Residences on Woodsonia won support from the city planning commission to rezone nearly 38 acres from an agricultural district to intermediate and high-density residential districts. The development project is located south of 83rd Street between Woodsonia Drive and Monticello Road.

After winning support from the city planning commission, Kansas City-based Sunflower Development Group wants the City Council in Lenexa to rezone nearly 38 acres from an agricultural district to intermediate and high-density residential districts to include a new apartment project called The Residences on Woodsonia.

The Lenexa Planning Commission approved rezoning and a preliminary plan for The Residences on Woodsonia, a new multifamily residential development between Woodsonia Drive and Montecello Road.

The Kansas City-based Sunflower Development Group is leading the project and would be split into two parts: 10 three-story apartment buildings containing 240 units total, along with 11 other buildings containing a total of 62 two-story townhomes. It will also include shared amenities, such as a clubhouse, pool, dog park and pickleball courts. The townhomes will also have garages.

The $261 million renovation just got its first major tenant, which will take up 60,000 square feet of office space once the construction is complete.

In a Thursday, Nov. 30, event held at the Downtown skyscraper, ground was ceremonially broken on the project to reinvent and reimagine the 100 N. Main Building.

The extensive $838 million Homefield development near 94th Street and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, primarily focuses on youth sports facilities with the baseball complex slated for a spring opening. Commercial components and attractions including the Margaritaville Hotel developed by Sunflower Developments have a completion date expected in 2025.

Homebase, which developed a smart building technology platform, will retain its name and Kansas City office after its sale to Quext, a Lubbock, Texas-based technology company that owns and manages more than 20,000 apartment units throughout Texas. The Quext team understands the multifamily industry and what it needs which is key for Homebase, which has started attracting large-scale apartment developers as customers, who own and operate thousands of apartments such as Sunflower Development Group.

If the Plaza changes ownership, which could happen by the end of the year, some of the developments around the iconic shopping center may see even more progress. Including Block and Sunflower’s apartment proposal at 4627 Madison Ave. which would sit just north of the Plaza Corporate Centre office building.

Construction of a new $41 million, luxury apartment complex in Mission will bring much needed housing to the northeast Johnson County area, including some units set aside for affordable housing.

Currently dubbed The Residence of Rock Creek, the Sunflower Development Group is in the process of re-branding the project to the The Lanes at Mission Bowl to reflect the nostalgia of building on the site of the former bowling alley Mission Bowl, which burned down in 2015.

The City of Mission is building a luxury housing development where a former bowling alley once was.

Mission Bowl was a beloved staple in the city before it burnt down in 2015. But, from the ashes of the alley, there will soon be what has lovingly been called the Mission Bowl Luxury Apartments.

Block Real Estate Services and Sunflower Development Group plan to build a 10-story, 213-apartment complex with studio, one- and two-bedroom units near the Country Club Plaza at 4627 Madison Avenue.

Sunflower Development Group recently signed on to help with the Metcalf 108 project. The final part of the major redevelopment plan will come to life a little later than initially planned as the Overland Park City Council approved an amendment earlier this week to the development agreement to delay the project’s completion timeline.

Sunflower Development Group submitted plans for phase 2 of the Residence on Rock Creek, also known as the Mission Bowl redevelopment project, which will replace the empty parking lot next to the current development with a five-story apartment complex.

Sunflower Development Group and Platform Ventures LLC will open the third and final apartment building in the $43 million Brookside Commons project, which broke ground during the pandemic in 2020.

Longview was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 1985.  The Longview Mansion was renovated and restored by Sunflower Development Group after plans were drawn up in 2004 and serves as a wedding and event venue today.

Sunflower Development Group will build a Margaritaville-themed hotel with about 230 rooms as a central piece of the $838 million Homefield project in Kansas City, Kansas.

Sunflower Development Group has twice turned shuttered schools into affordable senior housing complexes. Now the Kansas City, Missouri-based company plans to do the same thing with Topeka’s iconic Menninger Clock Tower. The clock tower building is listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places and the National Register of Historic Places. “It’s an awesome building and we’re looking forward to doing this renovation,” said Jason Swords, SDG’s founding partner.

Governor Kelly Announces Nearly $10 Million to Expand Housing for Elderly and Disabled Kansans.

Sunflower Development Group engages Kansas City neighborhoods to increase acceptance of quality affordable housing communities including leveraging partnerships with nonprofit organizations and municipalities to combat NIMBYism and ensure its properties enrich the lives of its tenants.

Thousands of people and millions of dollars will pour into downtown Kansas City this weekend as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament returns. The Kansas City Sports Commission estimates a $14.5 million economic impact for the city which will set records for hotels, restaurants and other local businesses -including a sold out Ambassador Hotel. “Turns out that this is going to be one of the highest revenue generating months since the hotel’s existence,” said John Anastaopoulos, the general manager of the hotel. “You can’t beat that.”

The Kansas City Business Journal selected 10 in-the-works projects spanning both sides of the state line that are making a mark on the city’s landscape. Keep your eye on these buildings as they make progress.

A program that provides affordable housing to women recovering from substance abuse and their children intends to build a 37-unit development at 28th and Tracy. Amethyst Place, which currently operates a similar-size development and 27th and Troost, is planning the $15.4 million project that’s expected to begin construction this spring and be completed by late 2024.

Sunflower Development Group LLC in late October struck a two-year partnership with Jacksonville-based VyStar Credit Union as it seeks to apply for 2023 allocation through the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program.

“We are truly honored to have been selected by VyStar to help make a bigger community impact for the people of Florida and Georgia who need it most,” said Chris Vukas, Director of NMTCs, Sunflower Development Group, LLC. “Their enthusiasm for community is contagious and securing additional federal resources will create new opportunities where the market-driven economy doesn’t work for low-income people and places.”

For 35 years, Reconciliation Services has been working to turn Troost Avenue from a dividing line into a gathering place where the very best of Kansas City’s culture is on display, helping people in need.

Construction of a new luxury apartment complex is officially underway on the long-vacant site of the former Mission Bowl in downtown Mission. The abandoned bowling alley at 5399 Martway Street — which was gutted by fire in 2015 — was torn down last year, and on Wednesday, developers, city officials and investors gathered for an official groundbreaking ceremony for the apartment project replacing it, now dubbed The Residence on Rock Creek.

Sunflower Development Group is planning to build the Amethyst Place apartment building in Kansas City. The 34-unit building will be located at 2770 Tracy Ave. The project is valued at $14.1 million.

One of downtown Kansas City’s landmark historic buildings came this close to a foreclosure sale earlier this summer, after its out-of-state owner faced accusations of defaulting on a loan for its redevelopment into an $88 million hotel.

Kansas City-based Sunflower Development Group cleared a major hurdle in boosting multifamily housing stock in Kansas City, Kansas.

The historic Russian Hill neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas, has seen the beginning of Sunflower Development Group’s latest high-rise apartment complex — a type of development the area has never seen.

Panelists Banks Floodman, director of business development, Sunflower Development Group, Fletcher Harder, project manager, Neighbors Construction Company, Michael Sullivan, founding partner, MMG Real Estate Advisors, and Nicole Yates, co-founder, Yates and Yates Co., gathered at the Homebase HQ last week with a sold-out audience to discuss the multifamily market at MetroWire Media’s 2022 KC Multifamily Summit.

Johnson County will help subsidize a new project to bring workforce housing to Shawnee. On Thursday the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) voted 5-2 to issue a $1 million loan to support the construction of the Hedge Lane Apartments.  The developers, Consolidated Housing Solutions and Sunflower Development Group, intend to create a 144-unit apartment complex near 75th Street and K-7 Highway in Shawnee.

“We have the tallest rooftop pool in Kansas City, and what’s nice about our rooftop is it’s open year round, so our residents can have that outdoor space, they can get that fresh air, even in the winter time, when the pool should be closed,”

Renovations have kicked off on Reconciliation Services’ historic building on the southeast corner of 31st and Troost in Kansas City, Mo.

The project, developed by Reconciliation Services, includes project partners Sunflower Development Group, LM2 Construction, Straub Construction, BNIM and MC Realty Group.

Dirt recently started moving on a 221-apartment complex called The View at Castle Rock that will include office and retail space, according to a news release. The $70 million project, located on Sixth and Jerry streets, is being built by a group called Castle Rock View Investors. The team includes Block Real Estate Services, Sunflower Development Group, First Construction, architecture firm CT Design and general contractor Vertix Builders.

After headlining on stages around the world, Lonnie McFadden opened his own nightclub in the midst of the pandemic. Now the trumpeter and tap dancer is “celebrating life” — and Kansas City jazz — at Lonnie’s Reno Club in the Ambassador Hotel.

The $70 million public-private project will deliver 221 apartments and office and retail space to downtown Castle Rock.

Construction on the $70 million mixed-use project, known as the View in Castle Rock, kicked off March 9 with a groundbreaking ceremony. Sunflower Development Group and their partners and community members gathered near the site on Wilcox Street to share details about the View. Included in the project are 221 apartments, more than 14,000 square feet of office space and roughly 5,000 square feet of retail space.

In late January, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, approved a revised development agreement providing for the additional STAR bonds in two tranches, to be unlocked once Homefield hits certain private investment thresholds, plus several deadline extensions for project components.

“Instead of going to the suburbs and building something from the ground up, it’s great to see something right in the heart of the community in an urban area come back to life,” said Banks Floodman with Sunflower Development Group LLC.

Monday the Roeland Park City Council approved two land purchase agreements with Sunflower Development Group for roughly seven acres of land near 4800 Roe Parkway. The developer purchased four city lots for roughly $3.45 million. The council voted to approve both agreements 7-1.

A pair of commercial real estate companies has purchased a historical downtown Cincinnati office building with an eye on potentially converting the building to a different use. Sunflower Development Group and Block Real Estate Services purchased the Cincinnati Club Building, located at 30 Garfield Place, from Vulcan Property Management Co. at the end of November for $4.35 million.

The Independence City Council will consider legal action to wrest the former Kmart building at Noland Road and Interstate 70 from its current owner for possible redevelopment.

Converge KC, the $46 million apartment project at Valentine Road and Broadway, has transformed a formerly moribund corner with a tired strip mall and parking lot into a dynamic urban addition to Midtown.

Sunflower’s Principal Jason Swords said the details of the mixed-use apartment complex — with retail and a restaurant on the main level — should be similar to what the developer is working on at the former Mission Bowl site in neighboring Mission.

Six years after a devastating fire, the former Mission Bowl building at 5399 Martway Street has been demolished. Crews tore down the building in October — about a month behind the project’s schedule. In its place will go a new 161-unit apartment complex.

Construction crews began demolishing the old Mission Bowl building at 5399 Martway Street in Mission, Kansas, this fall to make way for a new 5-story luxury apartment complex.

Sunflower Development Group was hired by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County to secure $8 million in New Market Tax Credits to offset increasing construction cost in order to construct a 10,000sqft grocery store in downtown Kansas City, KS.

Construction is slated to begin soon on the Meadowlark Apartments, a new multi-family complex in southwestern Shawnee near K-7 Highway.

Hedge Land Developers, a limited liability company led by Sunflower Development Group, is planning to build what it calls an affordable multi-family complex with 144 units on about 7 acres.

Sunflower Development Group and GSSW Real Estate Investments, an Americo Life company, are progressing toward a fall 2022 delivery for the first residences in Oxbow, a $49 million, nine-story infill project southwest of 18th Avenue and Swift Street.

The Keystone Community Corp. is making its first real estate moves on East 18th Street, intending to occupy a new $20 million office project that could begin construction early next year and participate in renovating a nearby former warehouse building.

A redevelopment project in the heart of Downtown St. Joseph has established a new community of modern lofts while preserving one of the area’s most prominent historic properties. Kansas City-based development firms Sky Real Estate, LLC and Sunflower Development Group, LLC led the effort

After opening if its first two locations in west Wichita — one near Ridge and Kellogg and the other at 13th and Tyler — Tommy’s Express Car Wash is now headed east.

Block Real Estate Services and Sunflower Development Group have submitted a proposal to purchase and revamp a landmark structure in downtown Memphis, Tennessee.

ST. JOSEPH, MO. — Sky Real Estate LLC and Sunflower Development Group LLC have completed a $36 million adaptive multifamily reuse project in downtown St. Joseph, about 55 miles north of Kansas City. The project involved the conversion of the former Richardson Dry Goods Co. headquarters into a 140-unit, loft-style apartment complex named American Electric Lofts.

The View is a planned redevelopment project in Downtown Castle Rock that will be a public-private partnership among the Town, the Downtown Alliance and Castle Rock Development LLC.

Downtown growth continues in Castle Rock, as a mixed-use building, The View, is being proposed on the corner of Sixth and Jerry streets.

With a new Walmart Inc. collaboration, Kansas City-based Homebase LLC is building on its vision to create Jetsons-like amenities for apartment dwellers. Sunflower Development Group was one of the earliest investors in Homebase…

Sunflower Development Group LLC is in the home stretch to breaking ground on a $49 million mixed-use infill development in downtown North Kansas City.

Sunflower Development Group has currently committed to reserve 20% of the apartment units, or 32 units, for low-income tenants, or tenants earning up to 60% of the average median income of the Kansas City metro.

RentCafe, a national real estate research firm, ranks Kansas City among the top 10 cities in the country when it comes to converting historic buildings into apartments.  The firm found 43 buildings in KC have been converted to 5,305 new residential units.

The Ambassador Hotel has completed a new interior renovation and has a new chef which has rebranded the restaurant to “The American Reserve & Grille”.

Sunflower Development Group (SDG) sees opportunity when others may see blight. After Mission Bowl sitting vacant for five years, there is a preliminary development plan which includes a 161-unit apartment complex located at 5399 Martway Street.

The Shawnee Planning Commission on Wednesday unanimously agreed to recommend rezoning Sunflower Development Group’s proposal to build a five story 189-unit multifamily development on the former Wonderscope Children’s Museum site.

Sunflower Development Group (SDG) is working to unveil plans to develop a new high class A apartment project on the site of the former Wonderscope Children’s Museum in Shawnee.

Sunflower Development Group (SDG)  secured $11mm in New Market Tax Credits and $15mm in CID, TIF and Super TIF in order to cement a lease for a new 49,000 sqft Price Chopper with Balls Food Stores. The grocery store will be located in a dilapidated shuttered K-Mart located at Bannister Rd and Hillcrest. The developer LR- Kansas City 1, LLC had originally purchased the entire 100,000 sqft building for climate controlled storage; however, the City of Kansas City, Missouri asked that 50,000 sqft be utilized for additional retail to bolster the addition of the Cerner Campus.

Sunflower Development staff have always had an affinity for the Brookside neighborhood and taking bold steps to envision plans that can help revitalize blighted areas in the region. That’s why when we began talks on purchasing a large piece of land on the outskirts of Brookside we knew this land had a lot of potential to help push more development towards Troost and improve the area.

Part of downtown Shawnee has been designated a Federal Opportunity Zone by State of Kansas with the hopes of spurring on economic development area. One glaring question nationwide is if the new Opportunity Zone program is having the intended affect on communities.

Sunflower’s newest hotel project, the La Quinta Del Sol on Troost Avenue, was recently featured by CityScene KC. This $16 million development continues the momentum of new investment in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, which has seen new construction and historic renovation projects over the last few years.

We’re excited to announce one of downtown Kansas City’s most stunning buildings will soon see new life. We have partnered with Augustine Development Group to pursue a $50 million redevelopment of the Scarritt Building and Arcade that will convert it into a 193-room hotel by Wyndham Grand.

Just after completing development on Wichita’s first Tommy’s Express car wash, we are happy to announce plans for a second. Tommy’s Express is a fully automated car wash featuring quick wash times and free vacuums.

Sunflower is excited to announce that our team has secured $7 million in New Market Tax Credit allocation for our client, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County (the UG). The UG was working with local stakeholders to identify a grocery store operator in downtown Kansas City. The Merc Co+op has signed onto the project and is slated to open in mid-2020.

Following the successful groundbreaking of our Uptown Lofts project in Midtown Kansas City, Sunflower is excited to announce plans for a hotel on the property. The hotel will be located at the corner of Valentine and Broadway, and construction is now entering the early stages.

We’re excited to share that Sunflower Development Group has been featured by MetroWire Media for our work around the downtown Kansas City area. The feature comes shortly after principal Jason Swords presented at a meeting of the Kansas City Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) chapter.

The Grand, one of our favorite residential projects of the last few years, was the subject of a new feature by MetroWire Media. Formerly known as Traders on Grand, we spent several years redeveloping this building into a modern apartment building that would set a new standard for downtown living in Kansas City.

The Kansas City Star recently profiled one of our latest projects, The Grand. Located at 1125 Grand Blvd., The Grand is a luxury apartment building featuring modern amenities, high-end finishes and sweeping views of the downtown skyline.

Sunflower is proud to announce the opening of a new addition to the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Kansas City. Located at 111 Grand Boulevard, the $14.9 million hotel addition includes 70 new rooms as well as an event space.

Just ahead of its grand opening, Sunflower Development Group gave the media a sneak peek inside our newest development in downtown Wichita, KS: the Spaghetti Works building. This historic building has been home to a diverse array of tenants over the years, and we are proud to give it new life as an upscale apartment building. 

Sunflower is excited to announce plans to construct a Rouses grocery store on an undeveloped plot in Jefferson Parish, LA.

We are excited to announce plans for a new mixed-use development in the heart of Midtown, Kansas City.

Sunflower is proud to announce that we have started development on a new hotel property in Kansas City’s up-and-coming Beacon Hill neighborhood. Planning for this hotel has taken over two years, but our team could not be happier with the opportunity to bring a much-needed lodging option to this important corner of downtown.

Sunflower Development Group recently broke ground on a Phase II expansion of the Rooks County Health Center (RCHC) in Plainville, KS. Opened in 2017, the center was first home to an MRI and nuclear medicine operation—but it soon became clear that we had an opportunity to expand both the building and its service offerings.