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27 floors inclusive of Pent House. 290’ tall.

Architect is Lamar Johnson Collaborative. Developed is Arnold Development Group.

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strangerthings wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 10:57 pm 27 floors inclusive of Pent House. 290’ tall.

Architect is Lamar Johnson Collaborative. Developed is Arnold Development Group.

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That looks nice, will add some height to the northern part of DT. Kansas City’s still building downtown they just aren’t able to get anything over 400ft.
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City Plan Commission signed off on this project.

An unknown developer has hired SOM to design a 19 floor high-rise on the same block as Arnold's 9th & Central tower. No renderings available for this SOM project yet.
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That looks similar to Lied Place Residences in Lincoln to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lied_Place_Residences
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A new tower proposed one block away from the 9th and Central tower.

This new project will be a pencil tower and nearly entirely data center uses.

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Dumb question, but vertical data center?
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OmahaRedWing wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2026 8:43 am Dumb question, but vertical data center?
The zero bits are lighter than the one bits and rise to the top.

It could also a space and proximity thing to get a data center close to an important trunk line or backbone but there's no room for a traditional data center layout.
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Development plans submitted for KC's first pencil tower. Heigh of 384' and a FAR of 14.

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Not quite sure I’d call that a pencil tower haha, but it does look nice.
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too bad we can't have one like that.
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To be a pencil tower, wouldn't it need an eraser on top
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Garrett wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2026 9:01 pm Not quite sure I’d call that a pencil tower haha, but it does look nice.
The KC tower has a FAR of >14. Pencil towers are anything above the 10-12 FAR ratio.
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I meant to ask this the other and didn’t but, what is FAR? I assume it’s not anything related to Federal Aviation Regulations. lol
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CBJason wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2026 9:31 am I meant to ask this the other and didn’t but, what is FAR? I assume it’s not anything related to Federal Aviation Regulations. lol
Floor Area Ratio. Basically, the ratio of a building’s floor area to its lot size, so an FAR of 14 means that the building has 14x square footage as its lot does.
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Cool, thanks Garrett!