REDEFINING REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
REBUILDING OPPORTUNITY ZONES
At Eastside Innovation, we believe opportunity zones represent one of the most powerful tools for transformative development today. With favorable tax reform potential, a 10-year capital gains exemption, and accelerated depreciation benefits, these zones offer a rare chance to maximize returns while aligning with critical national priorities, like renewable energy and housing. It's smart investment with real impact.
years of capital gains exemption on qualified investments.
depreciation on renewable energy and housing.
catalytic development across Indian Springs and Wyandotte County.
FROM CONCEPT TO CONSTRUCTION IN EASTSIDE KCK
We focus on a clear set of activities that move Eastside KCK from renderings to real, lived-in places.
We bridge people, ideas, and power.
We bring residents, leaders, organizations, and artists to the same table to shape solutions for equitable neighborhood revitalization. By connecting grassroots vision with institutional partnerships and policy conversations, we turn collective insight into coordinated action that benefits the entire KCK community.
We Listen First and Act Together.
We believe that lasting transformation starts with the people who live it every day. Through listening sessions, community forums, and workshops, we elevate resident voices to shape priorities, programs, and advocacy. Our work grows from the ground up — guided by lived experience, accountability, and shared ownership of Wyandotte County future.
We bridge people, ideas, and power.
We bring residents, leaders, organizations, and artists to the same table to co-create solutions for equitable neighborhood revitalization. By connecting grassroots vision with institutional partnerships and policy conversations, we turn collective insight into coordinated action that benefits the entire KCK community.
We build capacity for community-led change.
We equip Eastside residents with the knowledge, skills, and platforms to lead advocacy and development efforts in their own neighborhoods. Through civic leadership training, policy education, and catalytic projects, we’re advancing equity, shifting power, and ensuring that those most affected by disinvestment are the ones shaping what comes next.
OUR PROJECTS
Delivering strong economic returns while creating meaningful impact in opportunity zones across the country.
Midtown Station
Kansas City, KS
A $1B net-zero mixed-use development transforming the 90-acre former Indian Springs Mall site into a sustainable urban community with 2,000+ housing units, retail, a solar microgrid, an innovation hub, and a transit center at the intersection of I-635 and I-70.
$1B
Investment
2,000+
Housing Units
50%
Affordable
$100M
OZ Equity Target
MIDTOWN STATION: New Model for Eastside Revitalization
This is more than a redevelopment—it is a national demonstration of what is possible when sustainable infrastructure and community leadership move in lockstep. Led by Eastside Innovation, the project transforms the former Indian Springs Mall into a walkable, mixed-use, clean-energy community featuring housing, retail, jobs, transit integration, green space, and a 30-acre solar microgrid. And we ensure residents shape the heart of Midtown Station! Through education, convening, storytelling, and civic leadership development, EOV activates the social infrastructure that makes the physical infrastructure matter. Our goal is a community that grows with longtime residents, not without them.
- Partnerships with schools, small businesses, artists, and community organizations
- Programming designed for public spaces, civic leadership, and workforce pathways
- Ground-up placemaking and cultural storytelling
INVESTMENT & IMPACT IN THE NEWS
Coverage of Eastside Innovation's transformative development projects across opportunity zones.
Midtown Station: A $1B Vision for Eastside Revitalization
A proposed net-zero mixed-use redevelopment of the former Indian Springs Mall site would bring 1,500 apartments, 280,000 sq ft of retail, and a 30-acre solar microgrid to KCK.
Long-Dormant KCK Mall Site Could See New Life
Local developers pitched a massive, village-like revitalization — a walkable community with housing, retail, hotel and clean energy infrastructure inspired by the River Market.
InvestMidwest Returns to Kansas City
Kansas City continues to gain recognition as a center for innovation, showcasing local companies alongside regional and national investment opportunities.