Swope Community Builders

Overview

Swope Community Builders has been recognized nationally as a catalyst for strengthening civic investment, building social infrastructure and enhancing economic opportunities within neighborhoods.

Our team of community development experts helps improve the quality of life for residents who live and work in south central Kansas City. Through public and private partnerships, the organization successfully stretches limited resources to provide solutions for struggling neighborhoods. Swope Community Builders works with other member companies of Swope Community Enterprises to provide a broad spectrum of community building services:

• Real estate development planning and market analysis
• Project feasibility and financing
• Project and construction management
• Community and neighborhood organizing
• Human capital development

Through Swope Community Builder's efforts to overcome neighborhood challenges and stabilize neighborhoods, residents have received:

• Affordable and market-rate housing opportunities
• Improved employment prospects
• Neighborhood programs for residents

For nearly 20 years, Swope Community Builders has:

• Developed more than 350 housing units in neighborhoods surrounding Swope Health Services
• Formed public-private partnerships, resulting in more than $184 million invested to redevelop the streets, sidewalks and infrastructure along Brush Creek, and to build Swope Health Services, the Thomas-Roque Child and Family Development Center, a substance abuse center, and an elderly housing complex.
• Developed several commercial office projects in the Brush Creek Corridor including the H & R Block Service Center and the 4001 Office Building.

More than 500 housing units and 162,000 square feet of commercial retail development will be completed in the next three years.

For more information, visit www.swopecommunitybuilders.org
or call 816-627-2140.

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