Menninger Clock Tower News Today

The Kansas City, Mo.-based company that plans to turn Topekas Menninger Clock Tower into senior housing has experience with those types of projects.

A project to transform the Menninger Clock Tower into a residential facility has announced the developer taking on the task.

A historic Topeka landmark is set to receive thousands of dollars in state funding for senior housing at the Menniger Clock Tower Apartments.

Their future uncertain, three downtown Topeka buildings owned by early Black Topeka newspaper editor Nick Chiles have been put back on the market.

Topekas city government has set aside $400,000 in windfall money to aid a project to save the historic Menninger Clock Tower.

Aiding a project to save an iconic clock tower is among uses city of Topeka elected officials are considering for an unspent $3.5 million windfall.

A group is being formed with the mission of saving Topekas iconic Menninger Clock Tower building. “We don’t want to see this piece of Kansas history erased,” Topekan Zach Haney, the groups organizer, said in a news release Thursday. He encouraged anyone interested in helping save that building to go to the groups website at www.savemenningers.org or its Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/savemenningers. Haney said he was working with Emily Cowan from AbandonedKS.com on ideas...

Topekas mayor and city council may be asked to authorize the demolition of the iconic Menninger Clock Tower building, a Topeka landmark standing on the former campus of the famed Menninger psychiatric clinic. The Topeka Landmarks Commission voted 9-0 on Jan. 14 to reject an application for a demolition permit submitted by Colorado-based SCL Health, the owner of the property, which is just northeast of S.W. 6th and Wanamaker Road. But Kansas law enables SCL to appeal that decision to Tope...