Country Club Plaza is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Kansas City with average asking rent around $32/sqft/yr.
Premier mid-town mixed-use Class A. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: $32/sqft/yr
The Country Club Plaza — JC Nichols's iconic 1922 mixed-use development — anchors KC's deepest mid-town Class A market with deep professional services and law firm tenancy.
Law firms, professional services, financial services, healthcare.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
KC Streetcar (planned extension), RideKC bus.
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
Country Club Plaza retail, Nelson-Atkins Museum.
Country Club Plaza is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Kansas City, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around $32/sqft/yr. Compared with the broader Kansas City Class A stock, Country Club Plaza typically attracts Law firms, professional services, financial services, healthcare and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Country Club Plaza: Downtown KCMO, Crossroads Arts District, Overland Park, South Kansas City (Cerner Innovations). The full Kansas City submarket atlas is at /cities/kansas-city.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Country Club Plaza, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to Kansas City Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
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