The 5008 Prospect Building, another of Community Builders of Kansas City’s properties in the urban community, will have space available in the fourth quarter of 2021. The two-story, 14,000-square-foot, LEED-certified building has high quality finishes and is ideally located near public transportation and within minutes of highways, shopping, education and commercial centers.
“We are seeking a tenant or tenants that will be a good fit with the community,” said Shannon Hesterberg, chief operations and real estate officer for Community Builders of Kansas City. “CBKC is committed to preserving this asset for the community. 5008 Prospect is particularly well suited for organizations that offer social services, jobs, education or training.”
CBKC has many non-profit, service-driven, professional and medical tenants in its commercial property portfolio such as Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kansas City, Mazuma Credit Union, Holiday Law Firm and Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce. CBKC understands and knows how to work with the often unique aspects of such organizations’ mission, lease needs and funding.
The May merger of Vivent Health and Thrive Health Connection opened up space for a new tenant or tenants at 5008 Prospect. The merged entity, which established the first HIV Medical Home in Kansas City, needed more square footage. Thrive, formerly Good Samaritan Project, served those affected by HIV/AIDS and became a tenant of 5008 Prospect in mid-2018.
There is ample controlled parking as well as on-street parking at 5008 Prospect whose two levels each have about 7,000 square feet. The property currently features more than a dozen private offices, community/training space, conference room, residential-grade kitchen, showers and locker rooms, cubicles and other furnishings. An improvement allowance is negotiable. Google Fiber, Spectrum Cable Business, AT&T, Consolidated Communications and Packet Layer serve the building.
It is LEED Gold- and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star®-certified and is equipped with solar panels for more efficient utility usage as well as electric car charging stations on both surface parking levels. Barrels collect rainwater used both for the adjacent garden with raised beds and fruit trees managed by Kansas City Community Gardens and by MO Hives’ apiary located just across the street, one of the urban environments where its honeybees thrive.
The award-winning 5008 Prospect building was built in 1969 and first renovated in 2013. In 2018, the building was the first recipient of the Central City Economic Development (CCED) one-eighth-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2017 to spark redevelopment along the Prospect corridor. The $628,000 renovation expanded the Blue Hills Incubator serving predominantly local MBE/WBE businesses and attracted Good Samaritan Project, which took the rest of the leasable space. Further renovations completed in 2019 to accommodate additional office space.