Erik Murray

Presented the Midtown Station development proposal to the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas commission, and Eastside Innovation — the KCK firm he founded and leads — was selected with co-developer Arnold Development Group to redevelop the 90-acre former Indian Springs Mall site after a two-year RFQ and RFP process; the $700 million plan covered 1,475 apartments, 63 single-family homes, 150 townhomes, roughly 200,000 square feet of commercial space, a hotel and conference center, an innovation hub and a grocery store.

November 7, 2024For

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Founded and leads Eastside Innovation LLC, a Kansas City, Kansas commercial real-estate development and investment firm; he was born at KU Med, raised in Kansas City, Kansas, attended St. Patrick's Catholic School and graduated from Sumner Academy, and his father led economic development in Kansas City while his mother worked as a public-school teacher and administrator.

July 23, 2026

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The Wyandotte County Economic Development and Finance Committee voted 4-1 to terminate the request for proposal for the former Indian Springs Mall site, ending the Midtown Station bid he had negotiated with Unified Government staff for 18 months; in the same coverage he stated that Eastside Innovation had sued the Unified Government in 2023 to gain access to the project, and that the pay-as-you-go TIF structure he proposed required no county general-fund money.

July 8, 2026

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Disclosed publicly, as managing partner of Eastside Innovation, that his company had spent three years working with the Unified Government on the Indian Springs site and had revised the Midtown Station plan three times, and that negotiations had stalled over land cost after the Unified Government obtained a market appraisal valuing the property at $6.12 million.

February 25, 2026

Source: kshb.com · researched July 23, 2026