Butch Rigby Builds Back Historic Kansas City Retail On Troost

Credit to this longtime local developer . . . He's taking a iconic location and attempting to rewrite history and battle digital tech trends.

Here's part of a worthwhile story of urban renewal . . .

The duo will use historic tax credits to help create a multi-tenant complex that will also be energy efficient. The 6,000-square-foot building will then have two or three tenants — perhaps retail, a salon, a restaurant.

“Whoever we put in there we want it to be positive for the neighborhood and bring the neighborhood forward,” said Rigby.

Safeway closed the Troost store in 1963 and then various tenants moved in — coin-operated laundry and dry cleaners, barbecue restaurant, auto repair shop and DeLaSalle school and counseling center.

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Historic Troost space getting restocked; long-vacant Safeway next on Screenland's grocery list

A one-story, long-empty, red brick building on Troost is now on the National Register of Historic Places - and set for new uses that reflect the modern-first vision behind its original construction.