About Brian

Brian has been developing affordable housing projects in Kansas City and the midwest for the last 10 years with Cougar Capital, LLC and Cohen-Esrey Development, LLC utilizing both Low-Income Housing and historic tax credits. He has an extensive background in public sector planning and economic development, real estate acquisition and disposition, successful private-sector fundraising and the negotiation of complex public/private sector partnerships.

First President & CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City
Member, American Institute of Certified Planners
Founding Board Member, International Economic Development Council
$10 million historic restoration / former 1914 hospital
Pemberton Park $8 million new housing for grandparents with grandchildren
Palestine Commons $10 million new 69 affordable senior apartments
Chaumiere Place $6 million reuse of former school / 35 units senior housing
Highland Place $5 million historic rehab 7 buildings / KC Jazz District

23 OCTOBER 2012

New housing developments geared toward grandparent-led families
With nearly 3 million grandparents raising children in the U.S., new housing complexes are starting to focus on their needs. Dromara featured on Marketplace From American Public Media.

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Kyle Blaylock of Polar Bear Painting worked Thursday on the front railing of one of the houses being renovated on Highland Ave. between 18th and 19th streets

12 OCTOBER 2012

Kyle Blaylock of Polar Bear Painting worked Thursday on the front railing of one of the houses being renovated on Highland Ave. between 18th and 19th streets. The project is called The Apartments at Highland Place and includes 5 houses, 3 of which will be duplexes, and 12 units in the former Rochester Hotel across the street. DAVID PULLIAM/The Kansas City Star_10112.

Construction 2015. 33 units of affordable, permanent housing for formerly homeless families at Admiral Boulevard and Troost Avenue.

35 units of specialized affordable housing for Grandparents raising their grandchildren.

Historic 1914 hospital restored as 46 units of affordable senior housing.

1950’s school building conversion (24 units) and 12 new patio homes as affordable senior housing.

Completed 2011. 69 units of affordable senior housing. Unique resident services program by John Knox Village.

Palestine Commons / 2012 Economic Development Corporation Cornerstone Award Winner

Opened 2013. 20 Units of affordable housing in six historic buildings in Kansas City’s Jazz District. - 2013 EDC Cornerstone Award - 2013 Kansas City Business Journal Capstone Award - 2013 Excellence in Preservation Practice, Historic Kansas City Foundation - 2014 Preserve Missouri Award. Missouri Preservation

Construction 2011. 20 units of affordable housing in six historic buildings in KC’s Jazz District

Brian H. Collins, AICP

Dromara Development, LLC

5526 Crestwood Drive
Kansas City, MO 64110

Office: (816) 584-1414

Mobile: (816) 651-6422

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