Kansas City Regional TIGER Award
The Kansas City Regional TIGER Award includes two types of investments:
- Investments in the Green Impact Zone, a 150-square block area in the urban core of Kansas City, Mo., which has been identified as a national model for targeting resources to reverse decades of decline and abandonment by creating jobs, improving energy efficiency and building neighborhood capacity. Just over half, $26.2 million, of the TIGER award for the Kansas City region will be used to support sidewalk, street and transit improvements in the zone.
- Investments in regional transit corridors — including the U.S. 24 and U.S. 40 corridors in eastern Jackson County, Mo.; the North Oak corridor north of the Missouri River; the State Avenue corridor in Kansas City, Kan.; and the Metcalf/Shawnee Mission Parkway corridor in Johnson County. TIGER funds amounting to $23.8 million will support transit infrastructure improvements, including additional transit centers, better pedestrian access to transit facilities, bus stop improvements, and traffic signal priority for buses.
Grant Structure
Given the multijurisdictional nature of the Kansas City Regional TIGER Award and the diverse set of planned investments, the $50 million was divided into three separate grants.
- RECIPIENT: Mid-America Regional Council (MARC)
- AMOUNT: $600,000
- PROJECT ELEMENTS: Program administration and project coordination including developing the website, tracking and reporting tools, creating public communication materials, and evaluating project results
- RECIPIENT: Johnson County Transit (JCT)
- AMOUNT: $10,714,000
- PROJECT ELEMENTS: Improve and add transit amenities (transit centers, shelters, benches, signs, pedestrian access) along Metcalf Avenue/Shawnee Mission Parkway corridor
- RECIPIENT: Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA)
- AMOUNT: $38,686,000
- PROJECT ELEMENTS: Green Impact Zone infrastructure improvements which includes sidewalk, street, traffic-signal and transit improvements, as well as a pedestrian bridge; transit investments (transit centers, shelters, benches, signs, pedestrian access) in U.S. 24 and U.S. 40 corridors in eastern Jackson County, Mo.; North Oak corridor north of the Missouri River; State Avenue corridor in Kansas City, Kan.
