This two plus year project centered upon an intensive, holistic review of Kansas City’s historic development patterns and the feasibility of future growth for fixed rail transit to better connect the city’s core. The result was a complex multi-team analysis of eight urban corridors, branded as NextRail and NorthRail. With extensive community engagement, informed by increasingly evolved financial and design feedback, the corridors were evaluated and measured upon graded criteria to determine optimal long term community benefit.

These two major studies led to the development of Kansas City’s Transit Oriented Development (TOD) policy and design guidelines. Together, the findings of these works have culminated in the current expansion plans for the streetcar line to proceed south along the Main Street Corridor, with a terminus at the edge of Kansas City’s Cranial/University District.

For more information, please click on the following links for the NextRailKC Plan and KCMO TOD Policy.

Kansas City, Missouri

Overall Project Team Director while Director of Planning for BNIM

CLIENT:

City of Kansas City, Missouri and neighborhood stakeholders

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

Urban Fixed Line Transit Studies and Municipal Policy Guidelines

SERVICES:

Real estate value capture and financing analysis
Historic property assessment
Multi-language/ethnicity community engagement
Cross-jurisdictional planning and interagency coordination
Project branding
Physical 3-D modelling
Design guideline scenarios

REFERENCE:

Jeffrey Williams, AICP
Kansas City, MO Planning Director
(816) 513-3032­­­