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Generations of workplace employees as soon as handed beneath the stone entryway and thru the brass-toned doorways. Now residents of the newly opened Midland Lofts can take within the Kansas Metropolis skyline view from their couches, not cubicles.
Completed in 1927, the 12-story constructing is situated downtown, adjoining to the Midland Theatre and across the nook from the Cosentino’s grocery retailer.
Residents began shifting in August to the 135-unit constructing, which incorporates studio and one-bedroom models.
The constructing is 80% leased, and rents for the remaining models vary from $924 a month for a studio to $1,368 for a one-bedroom.
The constructing comprises 5,000 sq. toes of resident amenity house, together with a meditation room, co-working house, and a gymnasium with weights and a Peloton.
As well as, the foyer contains couches, an indoor hearth and a two-island shared kitchen, all positioned underneath 15-foot ceilings.
Each the studio and one-bedroom models are outfitted with a dishwasher, a mixed washer-dryer and vary. The outside rooms function new home windows to let the town views in and maintain the Midwest climate out.
Many of the historic preservation work was targeted on the outside and entryway, stated Doug Stockman of Helix Structure Agency, which labored on the undertaking. The facade of the constructing is roofed with ornate terra cotta, topped with weathered copper.
The graphic black-and-white stone within the foyer and the gold-colored mail chute are a part of the historic appeal that put the construction on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.
Each the Midland Theatre and what’s now Midland Lofts buildings had been designed by Thomas White Lamb, a distinguished theater architect of the 1900s.
From 1927 to the mid-2000s, the workplace constructing housed organizations like a fuel firm, a brokerage agency, the Kansas Metropolis Rotary Membership and Russell Stover Candies. The construction was vacant for about 20 years earlier than work began on the renovation in July 2023, in accordance with a consultant. Energy and Mild developer Cordish Company spearheaded the undertaking.
Heating and cooling is included within the lease, although residents pay for water and web individually. Parking can also be additional; tenants have to pay between $100 and $150 a month to park at One Mild a block away.
Midland Lofts
