Complete · Best Adaptive Re-Use, 2025 · Midtown

The Dairy
Apartments

A Streamline Moderne dairy plant that sat empty for twenty years, now 40 apartments and a market facing the street, steps from Martini Corner.

CompleteAward winner

The Dairy Apartments

Aines Dairy, 3130 Gillham Road — Midtown, Kansas City

A Streamline Moderne dairy plant. Milk left here for all of Midtown before anybody had a refrigerator. Then twenty years empty, pulling graffiti and dumping onto a block that had businesses trying to make it. Now 40 apartments and a market facing the street, steps from Martini Corner. Historic Kansas City gave it Honors for Best Adaptive Re-Use in 2025.

Original use
Dairy Plant
New use
40 Units + Market
Size
60,000 SF
Vacant
Two Decades
Incentive stack
Federal Historic Tax Credit — 20%
Missouri Historic Tax Credit — 25%
LCRA abatement
The Dairy Apartments, the converted Aines Dairy plant at 3130 Gillham Road The Aines Dairy plant, vacant

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