Rosemann Project Wins "Kansas City Beautiful Award"

On Wednesday, September 16, 2009, Parkway Apartments, LP was awarded a Kansas City Beautiful Award for the Parkway Apartments in Kansas City, Missouri. This project was designed by Rosemann & Associates, P.C. in conjunction with the landscape architecture firm of Michael Ashley & Associates, LLC. The Kansas City Beautiful Awards are jointly sponsored by the Kessler Society and the Kansas City, Missouri Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners.

These annual awards are presented to properties who have demonstrated the best efforts to beautify their site and community. The purpose of the these awards are to reward and encourage Kansas City property owners to continue to landscape and aesthetically improve their site. This year is the second year that the Parkway Apartments have been awarded this prestigious award!

The Parkway Apartments is a 40-unit, low-income housing project in Kansas City, Missouri consisting of two buildings. The two buildings are located on Paseo Boulevard, which is a major Kansas City thoroughfare. The importance of the project location led the design team and the property owners to make a concerted effort to create a beautiful and inviting landscape plan, and exterior elevations. This award demonstrates the effort was well received and that the property owner and manager have continued to make the appearance of this property a priority.

Rosemann Hosts Green Drinks KC's Eco-Tour of the Crossroads

On Thursday, September 17, 2009 Rosemann & Associates, P.C. was one of the hosts for an “Eco-Tour of the Crossroads” which was organized by Green Drinks KC. This tour was organized to visit several sustainability minded businesses in the Crossroads District of Kansas City. Rosemann was asked to host so that the attendees could experience all of the wonderful things that our rooftop garden has to offer.

Green Drinks KC is a group of people who are interested in environmental issues. The group meets once a month for a drink and an informal session on various topics. The Eco-Tour event was very well attended with almost 50 people participating. The highlight of the Rosemann tour stop was enjoying a gorgeous Kansas City day from our roof top.

As one of the first historic renovations in Kansas City to obtain LEED Certification, the entire office provides a positive and pleasurable working environment for staff, while significantly incorporating sustainable design principles. For more information on Sustainable Design and Construction you can contact our Kansas City office at 816.472.1448, or our St. Louis office at 314.678.1448.

Rosemann Illuminates Main Street Connections

Rosemann & Associates, P.C. were presenters at the inaugural revitalization conference Missouri Main Street Connections in Kansas City Missouri on August 19, 2009. Jarrett Cooper and Rob Wagstaff presented Illuminate the Fun in Downtown Living focusing on adaptive reuse of historic downtown architecture and the surrounding urban environment.

Downtowns big and small are usually graced with an excellent stock of historic buildings that are often underused. Jarrett and Rob’s talk had two different elements:

The first part focused on reusing the existing buildings for their maximum potential. Often older buildings have been modified over the years and appear as eyesores to the community. However, irreproducible qualities make them too valuable for demolition and the historical significance makes a valuable connection to the past. Jarrett demonstrated how over the years Rosemann has been able to remake these buildings into valuable contributing economic assets to downtown. They can lead to excellent living, commercial and retail spaces that have a unique vibe and contribute to downtown’s authenticity.

Rob spoke on the importance of the surrounding environment and the necessity of providing good walkable context to compliment rehabbed buildings and ensure their re-fit in the urban fabric. Good urban environments require places that are safe, easy to navigate, comfortable, adaptable or varied, and attractive. These elements when combined with rehabbed historic architecture create the kind of vibrant downtowns that visitors and citizens alike can enjoy. This in turn generates economic activity spurring the ability for more regeneration and new development

After Rosemann’s presentation, a representative from the State of Missouri Department of Natural resources spoke on the different financial tools the state had available for rehabbing historic structures, followed by a tour of Rosemann projects in Kansas City’s Crossroads District. The Conference was well attended, and Rosemann looks forward to attending Missouri Main Street next year.