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BCCP
4743 Troost
Suite 200
Kansas City, MO
64110-1727
Ph: 816-523-2991
Fax: 816-523-2281
Brush Creek Community Partners:
facilitates and reviews public, private, institutional and community plans for adherence to quality planning standards and recommending modifications of those plans to support BCCP's vision for the area;
seeks to link between member businesses, institutions in the Corridor and public agencies more closely with the surrounding neighborhoods, emphasizing the connectedness of all Corridor stakeholders;
monitors current public policies and the use of public funds supporting development in the Corridor; and recommending and supporting programs and collaborations among Corridor businesses that realize economic savings for members; and
develops stategies and tools for promoting the Corridor's neighborhood and economic development.
KC Parks & Recreation Department Director
Mark McHenry addresses
the BCCP membership
at the State of the Corridor celebration.
September 2008
Kansas City Library Director
Crosby Kemper III talks with
Kansas City Councilman
Jim Rowland at BCCP
reception celebrating the
new Plaza Branch Library.
June 2005
Community leaders meet with
then U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez about the Brush Creek Corridor
in 2001.
To this end, Brush Creek Community Partners is not just represented in groups concerned with the city and its core, but often convenes and facilitates these efforts such as the Brush Creek Sponsor Team with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Kansas City, Missouri and Johnson County, Kansas. This group is overseeing the development of the Bi-State Brush Creek Basin Study, which is identifying opportunities for flood damage reduction, ecosystem restoration and water quality improvements in the two-state, 29-square mile Brush Creek Basin. BCCP also coordinates the work and communications of the Brush Creek Coordinating Committee, an organized stakeholder group working on realizing the vision that the Brush Creek Basin be “a healthy and sustainable watershed where we respectfully work together to protect, restore and enhance resources.”
Martin Luther King Park now
Alternative 1In the last year, BCCP has been engaging stakeholders concerning their ideas for Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in the Bruch R. Watkins Reach of Brush Creek between Prospect and The Paseo that informed alternatives for the parkland’s redevelopment, the plans for which will be determined soon. Emerging plans for Brush Creek can be found brushcreekwatershed.com, the website for the Brush Creek Coordinating Committee which is maintained by Brush Creek Community Partners.
In 2012, the Troost Avenue Bridge over Brush Creek was completed and dedicated. BCCP was recognized by the Mayor and City Council for its leadership in the project, ensuring that the largest institutions and the smallest neighborhoods were involved in its development as well as helping to secure funding for its design and completion and providing support to address logistical issues.
New Troost Bridge over Brush CreekIt is a priority of Brush Creek Community Partners to promote development east of Troost Avenue along Corridor. BCCP strongly supported the successful application for resources to repurpose the 102-year old abandoned Bancroft School in the heart of the Historical Manheim Park Neighborhood.
BCCP has been organizing business and property owners along the Troost Corridor north of Emanuel Cleaver, II Boulevard. “It’s a New Day on Troost!” is designed to lead improvement in business conditions in ways that should spur additional redevelopment along the Brush Creek Corridor. BCCP spearheaded the introduction of an Urban Renewal Area in the southern half of the Manheim Park Neighborhood, an incentive to free property taxes for owners who make visible improvements in their to their land and buildings. In the course of this work, BCCP has facilitated collaboration between the Historic Manheim Park Association, the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association and the Rockhill Homes Association to create a vision plan for economic and environmental sustainability of the area. See the draft Vision Document or just the goals and strategies portion by accessing the PDF files below.
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