Modern Justice: Former Federal Courthouse Is Renovated Into Workforce Apartments in Kansas City

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Tax Credit Advisor, January 2012: If you listen carefully, you just might hear the footsteps of Harry Truman walking the halls at The Alexander Company’s new mixed-used development in downtown Kansas City, Mo.

“Harry Truman had an office here,” says Vice President of Real Estate Development Matt Meier of The Alexander Company, a Madison, Wisc.-based developer of affordable housing and historic preservation projects.

Indeed, before becoming the nation’s 33rd president (1945-1953), Truman maintained an office in the U.S. Courthouse building as a U.S. Senator (1935-1945), when local Democratic political boss Tom Pendergast ruled Missouri politics. Read More…