The St. Louis-based developer behind the ongoing Wonderland project at 19th and Broadway and the Katz project at Westport Road and Main in Kansas City, MO is bringing a sky-line changing project to the city: a 27-story apartment and hotel building at the corner of 14th and Wyandotte.

The parcel that the project will be built on currently doubles as a gravel lot and an enormous eyesore, located directly adjacent to the historic Power & Light Building.

The new tower would include an estimated 300 apartments and 200 hotel rooms in the same town, built on a 358-space car garage pedestal. That unique arrangement means the same lobby would serve both the residential and the hotel side of this project. The tower would also include a rooftop bar, restaurant, pool, a social club, a number of meeting rooms and small food and beverage operations, and a fitness center.

The project was redesigned and made slightly smaller in scope following feedback from a variety of groups concerned about the structure’s proximity to the adjacent historic property.

The project has been approved by the City Plan Commission and the City Council, but will come back for further approvals of things like incentives before construction. Construction is expected to begin in 2024 or 2025, first the team behind the tower has to finish the actual design and finalize financing.

“Our development team is looking forward to bringing this exciting mixed-use development to Kansas City in the near future,” said Victor Alston, the chief executive of Lux Living.

Lux Living has a complex reputation in its hometown St. Louis, to say the least, but has largely worked with the unions in Kansas City thus far on its projects here. Kansas City is a union town and it’s important that developers who enter the market respect that. Rats don’t build this city, union members do.

If this project is built, it will be similar in size to the Two Light and Three Light buildings that union workers recently built. This developer also has the rights to develop a project at the riverfront and nearby at 20th and Walnut, with both estimated to be 250-units each.