Kansas City’s historic Parade Park is being demolished, after multiple house fires and delays ^82.4%

KCUR - By Savannah Hawley-Bates - 2/9/2026, 10:00 AM

Demolition of Parade Park Homes, one of the nation's oldest Black-owned housing co-ops, began this month as crews remove the crumbling structures to make way for a new version of the development. The project will build new housing on what was once one of the oldest Black-owned housing cooperatives in the country. Crews have begun... more