Demo starts on West Bottoms building for $526M project
SomeraRoad Inc. has started tearing down the former Weld Wheel Industries Inc. building as a precursor to the first projects in its $526.7 million West Bottoms plan.
Workers on Monday were doing interior demolition on the nine-story building at 933 Mulberry St. Last week, Kansas City permitted the full structure’s teardown by Remco Demolition LLC.
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The building first served as a warehouse within the block’s Ridenour-Baker Grocery Co. complex between 1910 and 1919. It later housed Weld Wheel from 1978 to 2003, when the race car wheel maker departed for new facilities near Truman Sports Complex.
Since then, the Weld Wheel building has sat vacant. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
Described by one city official as a “particularly nasty building” last year, the Weld Wheel building now sports graffiti and lacks most of its windows.
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