KC Developer Pioneering on the Renewable Energy Frontier

Above image credit: The massive former National Cloak and Suit Co. building opened in 1919 and has 14 acres of total floor space. (Contributed). Article by Martin Rosenberg. Flatland KC – November 15, 2022.

In its dotage, the lumbering National Cloak and Suit Co. facility at the corner of Independence and Hardesty avenues served as a dusty storage facility. So it is fitting that Jonathan Arnold would put massive energy “storage” — revolutionary battery technology that will push us toward a renewable power future — into his housing plans for the site. Also in Arnold’s blueprints, the 12-story building and four warehouse buildings that flank it will be bristling with more than 2 megawatts of solar power. The leading edge energy technology will give technological sizzle to an area of the city that has been hibernating for decades. […]

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