The Fairfax Festival will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 at Kaw Point Park, 1400 Fairfax Ave., Kansas City, Kan.
Registration is now open for the festival, which will include live music, a beer – wine, garden, a cookout, and a lawn game tournament. Those attending may bring lawn chairs.
The charge for food will be $15 per person. Admission to the beer-wine garden will cost $10.
The Fairfax Industrial Association is taking reservations that are submitted on a completed form. The registration form is at https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b3a42029a047b135d3fc3d1e3/files/2015_Fairfax_Festival_Flyer_01.pdf.
For more information, contact execdir@fiakck.org or 913-915-2327.
The Piper, a center for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients based on a household concept, recently opened at 2300 N. 113th Terrace, Kansas City, Kan.
The Piper, a center for people who have Alzheimer’s and dementia, recently opened at 2300 N. 113th Terrace in Kansas City, Kan.
The center is built on a “Household Model,” according to a spokesman for the center. Residents live in private apartments surrounded by their belongings, and each apartment has its own kitchen, living area and bathroom.
The apartments open to a larger household, similar in size and features of a family home for up to 20 members, including an open kitchen, dining room, living room, den and four-season room, according to the developers. The “home within a home” experience allows residents to have a degree of independence along with a supportive environment.
The Piper has six independent households, each with 20 private apartments. It is near 113th Terrace and Parallel Parkway, near The Legends Outlets.
The “Household Model” was developed by Action Pact and is now being brought to Kansas City, Kan.
“At Action Pact, we have assisted organizations throughout the U.S. to do away with institutional environments and practices, and to create spaces that results in each resident having the home life they want,” said Steve Shields, CEO of Action Pact. “We have built The Piper in Kansas City with these same principles. We have shaped The Piper Promise and expect to be held accountable to it: Live your life. Do what you want, in your own time, in your own way. There’s no reason to give that up. Ever.”
Residents can continue to direct their own lives as they always have, but with the support that they currently need, according to the spokesman. They have a household to invite friends and family over. They decide on when and what to eat with 24/7 access to the kitchen and the support of a household cook.
The Piper was developed and built by Assisted Living Associates, a partnership between PAR Development, Clarkson Construction Company and Action Pact, a Manhattan, Kan., based company specializing in senior living.
Shields and LaVrene Norton pioneered, refined and popularized the concept of creating households.
For more information, call The Piper at 913-400-7006, or visit the website at http://www.thepiperlife.com. The Piper, a center for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients based on a household concept, recently opened at 2300 N. 113th Terrace, Kansas City, Kan.
This is one of the drawings for the Turner Commerce Center, a light industrial development proposed along the Turner Diagonal. The project will go to the UG Commission on Thursday for a vote.
A new light industrial development and business park is planned for the Turner Diagonal area.
The Unified Government commissioners heard about the $69 million project at an Economic Development and Finance Standing Committee meeting Monday night.
There will be a public hearing on it Thursday. The project includes a community improvement district, according to George Brajkovic, UG economic development director.
Up to 1 million square feet of light industrial use is planned, according to UG officials. NorthPoint Development, which previously did a Kaw Point levee redevelopment and Village West apartment projects, is in charge of the project, which is being called Turner Commerce Center.
The project would use industrial revenue bonds and a community improvement district for financing, Brajkovic said. There would be 100 percent abatement for a 10-year term, he said.
He said the site, an undeveloped area, currently produces about $4,000 in annual taxes to the UG.
“We felt we weren’t losing a lot in total abatement,” Brajkovic said.
The CID would be assessed on a per square footage basis at the site, he said, and CID revenue would be split with the developer. The CID would be a 22-year term, with $1.04 per square foot special assessment on these buildings.
The Turner Commerce Center has the potential for adding 600-plus jobs, according to Brent Miles of NorthPoint Development.
The project site, formerly called Turner Woods, is 130 acres at 6925 Riverview Ave., near the Turner Diagonal and K-32, and south of State Avenue and south of I-70. On the east is South 65th and on the west, South 72nd, but those streets are not part of the project.
The project location is south of a Board of Public Utilities’ building, and a Moose lodge is to the east.
Earlier, a housing development had been proposed for the site, but that idea did not move forward, according to officials.
Four parcels for the site location are owned by Country Club Bank, according to Brajkovic.
“There’s no other 130-acre site within the 435 loop within the city, it just doesn’t exist,” Miles said.
People don’t always see the potential of the area, just as they didn’t see the potential of the levee project, he said. The Turner Commerce Center is a hilly area, with about $3 million worth of grading that needs to be done, no roads that are suitable for access to the area, and the Riverview bridge needs work, he said.
He said NorthPoint is planning a development there similar to its Horizons project recently built in Riverside, Mo.
“Our plan is to build almost exact replicas of what we built in Riverside,” Miles said.
Three buildings of about 400,000 square feet are proposed, he said. Light manufacturing or light assembly will be the use of the buildings.
Miles said the $69 million capital investment includes $60 million for the three buildings and $9 million for site acquisition and site infrastructure and grading. There are no utilities there now.
Under this plan, the UG would be responsible for replacing the Riverview Avenue bridge.
Currently, there are no tenants for the buildings, Miles said. NorthPoint’s Kaw Point project at the levee has been the most successful project to date, he said, with tenants leasing without walls up and without ceiling on.
“We’re oversubscribed,” he said. “I don’t think anybody saw that coming. We were optimistic, but not that optimistic. We do about three times the number of tours at Kaw Point than we do at Horizons.”
There was a $2 million penalty built into the agreement to NorthPoint if the second building is not built, and he said he felt confident enough in the business interest here to agree to that.
If only one building is built, the UG will continue the assessment on the building for the full 22 years, and continue until the second building is built, Brajkovic said.
The decision has not yet been made on the details of the Riverview bridge, or interchange, Miles said.
The UG does not have an obligation to replace the bridge before the first building is confirmed, according to UG information. Also, the UG’s share of CID revenue alone may not fully cover the bridge replacement, according to Brajkovic.
However, the UG knows it will have to do something with the Riverview Avenue bridge sooner or later anyway, he said.
The 600-plus new jobs that are projected would have estimated annual salaries of $42,000 a year, Brajkovic said.
The Turner Commerce Center project also is going through the zoning process at the same time; the zoning will require a change.
The project, which also went before the committee a few months previously, was approved by the committee on Monday, fast-tracked and will go before the full UG Commission on Thursday night at 7 p.m. at City Hall. More information about this project can be found on the Thursday night agenda at www.wycokck.org.
