Take a Look Inside One Light as Move-In Nears

Kansas City Business Journal

Construction work is coming to a close on the One Light apartment tower, and tenants are expected to start moving in at the end of November.

Nick Benjamin, executive director of The Cordish Co.’s Kansas City Power & Light District, said those who have secured a spot in the 343,000-square-foot luxury apartment complex already should have received move-in notices. Everyone should be moved into the 315-unit building by the end of March. The 25-story, $79 million tower sits at 13th and Walnut streets in Downtown.

Benjamin said the complex should be 90 percent leased by the time renters start moving in on Nov. 28. The exceptionally high demand — he said 3,000 people are on a waiting list for a spot in Cordish’s towers — for the first tower has accelerated building plans for Two Light, a $105 million high-rise luxury apartment building to be built after One Light opens, as well as the remaining towers the Baltimore-based developer has planned near the entertainment district.

Benjamin said he expects the construction will begin in the first quarter on the 24-story, 520,000-square-foot Two Light, which will be built on what is a surface parking lot at the corner of Grand Boulevard and North Truman Road. The company is close to announcing the general contractor that will build the building. Kansas City-based JE Dunn Construction built the first one.