West Bottoms Flats

The West Bottoms Flats are a market-rate housing project in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri, that transforms four historic warehouse and manufacturing buildings into apartments, micro-retail, indoor/outdoor amenity space, and parking. While retaining the historical facades and many of the interior architectural features of the buildings, the West Bottoms Flats includes four unique buildings – Abernathy, Liberty, Wyoming, and Bemis – that provide 265 residential units, courtyards, tenant amenities, ground-level commercial spaces to activate street-level, and a valet parking structure, to help revitalize this historic, formerly industrial area. A large mid-block courtyard provides a place for community and features native plantings to accentuate a post-industrial landscape returning to nature. Over the past few decades, talented street artists from across the region have transformed the brick walls of this neighborhood into an open-air art gallery. This informal invitation remains open, and new murals have continued to appear on the courtyard and alley walls.