909 WALNUT APARTMENTS WINDOWS
The clock face has since been removed and replaced by large windows for the highest residential living unit within five states. A bell cast in 1882 by the McShane Bell Company of Baltimore, Maryland chimed. A Radome for a weather radar was constructed between the towers on a steel skeleton rising above them, creating a landmark until 1995 when it was removed and the service relocated to Norman, Oklahoma, where it became the Storm Prediction Center.Īnother distinctive landmark was the "town clock" in the north tower which had first started keeping time in the original 1885 post office and was then placed in the tower. In 1954, the headquarters of the newly formed Severe Local Storms Warning Service of the United States Weather Bureau moved to the building from Washington, D.C. It was renamed the Federal Office Building. Truman, the Federal Government acquired the building at a report price of $3,300,000. The bank was liquidated in 1933 during the Great Depression. The building's architect Hoit, Price & Barnes also designed the nearby Kansas City Power and Light Building in the Art Deco style. The new building mimicked the original federal twin-spire structure, in an Art Deco-Gothic Revival architectural motif. The two-story building was razed in 1930. The site had been a two-story post office and federal building until 1904 when Fidelity purchased the site for its headquarters. The building was built in 1930–31 as the Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building (referred to locally as the Fidelity Building) at an estimated cost of $2,850,000, including bank fixtures. In 1997 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is also the tallest residential building in the Midwest outside of Chicago. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City Convention Center, Crossroads Art District, Sprint Center and all other major downtown employers, cultural, sports, dining and performing arts destinations are within walking distance or reachable by streetcar.909 Walnut (formerly Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building, Federal Office Building and 911 Walnut) is a twin-spire, 35-story, 471-foot (144 m) converted structure in Kansas City that is Missouri's tallest apartment building and 10th-tallest habitable building in Missouri. The building is centrally located in Kansas City’s main business area between the historic riverfront River Market and the Power & Light District.
“Few Midwest properties have attracted these types of institutional buyers.”īuilt in 1931 as the headquarters of Fidelity National Bank-liquidated in the Great Depression before the building was completed-909 Walnut now has 152 luxury apartments, 55,238 square feet of office space and a 310-space automated parking facility. “We brought in many interested groups from across the country and some international buyers, which ultimately resulted in a dozen bids for this highly unique property,” remarked Barron. Bradley Barham is Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Missouri. The buyer is an affiliate of Worcester Communities. The top 30 floors were transformed into luxury condominium-style residences.”īurkons, Michael Barron and Joshua Wintermute, IPA senior directors, and Max Helgeson of IPA represented the seller, a Dallas-based private investor. The first four floors, including the giant former bank lobby, were converted to incredible single-tenant Class A office space occupied by EPR Properties as their national headquarters. “The developer did a miraculous job restoring the property to its former glory in 2005. “This was a complicated deal involving real estate tax abatement, 152 luxury apartments in a broken condominium project, a parking garage, a publicly traded real estate investment trust as a commercial tenant and tax increment financing,” said Daniel Burkons, IPA senior managing director. The property is the second-tallest residential tower in the Midwest outside of Chicago. The asset sold for $50.3 million and includes an eight-story office building and adjacent parking garage. KANSAS CITY, MO - Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, announced the sale of 909 Walnut, a 34-story Art Deco-Gothic Revival-style building in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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