Featured Project: Kindler Hotel

Summary

After successfully getting this Kansas City structure placed on the National Historic Register, we are beginning the renovation work to transform it to a luxury boutique hotel. Check back on this page in the coming months to see the project evolve!

This structure, originally owned by a watch manufacturing company, has stood for over a century. In 2021, the Metropolitan Build team successfully lobbied to place it on the National Historic Register, thereby securing millions of dollars in renovation funding.

Now owned by entrepreneur Nicolas Castaneda, we are working to transform the structure into a luxury boutique hotel with twenty large suites, ten junior suites, and five additional oversized hotel rooms. This will involve a total gut renovation of the building, including remediating asbestos and lead-based paint, preserving the historic stairwell, copper facade, and other design details, repairing structural deficiency from the street curb, and modernizing the facility with all the amenities of a high end hotel.

Renovation of the subterranean vault is the first part of the construction work, which began in June 2024.