It benefits to partner with Historic Kansas City!

From its foundation in 1974, protecting historic places has always been at the core of Historic Kansas City’s mission as a nonprofit. Saving and reinvigorating our built heritage is a value in itself, but our advocacy is also founded on very pragmatic grounds. Historic preservation has a positive impact on the revitalization of neighborhoods, on tourism, and on tax revenue generation—critical benefits that help build and sustain a robust local economy and contribute to a high quality of life.

Historic Kansas City (HKC) is pleased to provide sponsorship opportunities to community partners who are passionate about our mission to advocate, identify, and preserve the historic legacy of our community. HKC is in a unique position to encourage forward-thinking about historic preservation and its importance in the life of our community, while highlighting outstanding projects undertaken by companies like yours – companies that are an integral part of the preservation community.

Our events and outreach initiatives provide an atmosphere that is unmatched in their ability to bring together like-minded companies and individuals who have an interest in making historic preservation economically viable. As the design and construction industry continues to evolve and grow, relationships are increasingly important. HKC’s annual sponsorship program is specifically focused on supporting the development of strategic connections between our members, followers, and sponsors.

OUR REACH

Social Media: Near-daily social media posts across platforms: three Facebook accounts + Instagram, LinkedIn. Over 11.3 million views annually across social media platforms and 2 million distinct accounts reached in 2025. Our Facebook account has 26 thousand followers, and our Instagram following count has grown 3x in the past year. 

Email: 3,500 email distribution list to members, donors, and beyond that receive monthly updates along with a quarterly e-gazette 

SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM OFFERINGS

HKC’s annual sponsorship program offers a range of sponsorship opportunities at many price points to give you direct marketing and visibility benefits for 12 months.

Signing up for a sponsorship is easy. Select one of the sponsorship levels below and click “Sign Up Here”. In the window that appears, select the corresponding sponsorship level.

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To download a PDF of program details click HERE. For more information email estarr@historickansascity.org.

BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP – $500 | Partnering with HKC 

Foundational support for preservation work

• Inclusion in HKC’s Preservation Resource Directory with company name, service category, and contact information
• Company logo, brief description, and hyperlink on the HKC Website Sponsor page for one year
• Group recognition on HKC’s LinkedIn platform as part of the Preservation Resource Directory
• Group recognition in annual or seasonal sponsor appreciation social media stories
• Recognition in printed event program at multiple annual gatherings
• Preservation Awards nomination fee waived
• Access to free member-exclusive events and discounted tickets to special events (2 tickets)

BRONZE – $1,000 | Enhance your company’s image by partnering with HKC members 

Establishing visibility within the preservation community

• Expanded listing in HKC’s Preservation Resource Directory, with enhanced service description
• Company logo and hyperlink on the HKC Website Sponsor page for one year
• Logo with link displayed in four Gazette quarterly e-newsletters
• Individual recognition on HKC’s LinkedIn platform, including firm name and service area
• Group recognition in sponsor appreciation social media posts or stories
• Logo placement in pre-event slideshow loops
• Recognition in printed event program at multiple annual gatherings
• Preservation Awards nomination fee waived
• Access to free member-exclusive events and discounted tickets to special events (4 tickets)

SILVER – $2,500 | Increase opportunities for exposure within the preservation community 

Expanding professional recognition alongside leading preservation firms

• Enhanced listing in HKC’s Preservation Resource Directory, including detailed firm description
• Company logo, text, and hyperlink on the HKC Website Home and Sponsor pages, plus individual event pages
• Logo and hyperlink on all HKC event-related electronic correspondence for one year
• Logo with link displayed in four Gazette quarterly e-newsletters plus two special issues
• Individual recognition on HKC’s LinkedIn platform, tied to professional, project, or preservation milestone
• One dedicated social media recognition or collaborative-style post annually, at HKC’s discretion
• Eligibility to request one (1) letter of support per year for preservation-related project plans/applications, subject to staff review and board approval
• Logo placement in pre-event slideshow loops
• Recognition in printed event program at multiple annual gatherings, including a half-page profile or advertisement
• Preservation Awards nomination fee waived
• Access to free member-exclusive events and discounted tickets to special events (6 tickets)

GOLD – $3,500 | Achieve meaningful exposure within the preservation community 

Strengthening your public presence and content collaboration with HKC

• Prominent placement in HKC’s Preservation Resource Directory, including logo and enhanced firm profile
• Eligibility for a dedicated firm or project feature page on the HKC website
• Company logo, narrative, and hyperlink on HKC Home, Sponsor, and Awards pages, plus individual event pages
• Logo and hyperlink on all HKC electronic correspondence for one year
• Logo with link displayed in four Gazette quarterly e-newsletters plus two special issues, with opportunity to serve as featured author for one issue
• Feature-level recognition on HKC’s LinkedIn platform, including dedicated spotlight posts
• Up to two collaborative or curated social media posts annually
• Eligibility to request up to three (3) letters of support per year for preservation-related project plans/applications, subject to staff review and board approval
• Logo placement in pre-event slideshow loops
• Event e-program recognition (3 events), including a half-page profile in booklet
• Preservation Awards nomination fee waived
• Access to free member-exclusive events and discounted tickets to special events (8 tickets)

DIAMOND – $5,000 | Achieve significant exposure and interaction within the preservation community 

Developing a strategic partnership and positioning your business among preservation leaders

• Premier placement in HKC’s Preservation Resource Directory, including logo, expanded firm profile, and dedicated webpage
• Priority eligibility for HKC-authored blog articles or long-form website features highlighting preservation leadership
• Company logo, narrative, and hyperlink prominently featured across HKC Home, Sponsor, and Awards pages, plus individual event pages
• Logo and hyperlink on all HKC electronic correspondence for one year
• Logo with link displayed in four Gazette quarterly e-newsletters and featured sponsor or author placement in two special issues
• Priority feature recognition on HKC’s LinkedIn platform, including recurring or in-depth spotlights
• Up to three collaborative or curated social media posts annually
• Eligibility to request up to five (5) letters of support per year for preservation-related project plans/applications, subject to staff review and board approval
• Opportunity to host a tour of a historic rehabilitation or renovation project in coordination with HKC
• Logo placement in pre-event slideshow loops
• Event e-program recognition (3 events), including a full-page profile in booklet
• Preservation Awards nomination fee waived
• Access to free member-exclusive events and discounted tickets to special events (10 tickets

FIVE reasons why YOU should be a business sponsor:

• Give more and get more every month! As an HKC Annual Sponsor, your firm will gain multiple exclusive opportunities to reach HKC members, followers, firms, and allied professionals while demonstrating your commitment to promoting a high-quality built environment.

• Exposure: Each year, HKC promotes outreach initiatives and networking events which offer unique opportunities to highlight your business directly to the local preservation community and to other participating industry leaders.

• Positioning: Support the program areas that matter most to your business while positioning your company as a leader and trusted information source. These are excellent opportunities to differentiate your firm from your competition by aligning your business mission and goals with ours.

• Relationship-Building: Use this opportunity to build long-term relationships that count. Develop the key relationships needed for your company/firm to maximize its potential in an ever-more competitive industry.

• Deductible Business Expense: HKC is a 501-c- 3 organization. All or part of your sponsorship may be tax-deductible as a charitable contribution for state or federal tax purposes. Consult with your tax advisor.

HKC Corporate SPONSORS

(Inclusion in this directory does not represent an endorsement of a contractor, business, supplier, or craftsperson by Historic Kansas City. The businesses listed are current Historic Kansas City Business Members.)

Historic Kansas City receives annual program support from the donors listed below. We thank them! Without their ongoing support, we would not be able to continue our important advocacy, education, and preservation work.

MEET OUR SPONSORS

Passionately committed to historic presevation, for our generation and most importantly the generations to come.

Strata Architecture + Preservation – Diamond Sponsor

STRATA Architecture Inc. is a woman owned, small business with extensive experience in historic restoration and renovation, adaptive reuse, new construction, and planning in both residential and commercial construction. Representing over 30+ years of architectural experience, our firm specializes in existing buildings and sites, adaptive reuse, smart growth and new construction within a historic context.  With a special emphasis on contextual suitability, our design approach responds to the unique challenges of each project with the goal of both satisfying the client and developing sound and appropriate architectural solutions. Each solution is tailored to fit the opportunities and constraints of the individual project’s design, budget, and schedule – an approach that has resulted in a noteworthy history of implemented on-time and on-budget projects for the firm.   STRATA Architecture Inc. represents a commitment to the field of historic preservation and renovation, exemplified by their dedication to historic buildings. The firm is headquartered in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, within a 1960s Mid-Century Modern building.

Kissick Construction – Diamond Sponsor

Kissick Construction is a self performing heavy civil contractor with diverse experience across infrastructure, utility, industrial, and site development projects. The firm’s scope of work ranges from initial demolition, rough grading, and site utilities to structural concrete, flatwork, engineered shoring, trenchless technology, hydro excavation, deep foundation systems, and roads and bridges construction. With nearly 400 employees and the capability to manage projects as large as $100 million, Kissick Construction has earned a strong reputation for innovatively solving complex construction challenges and delivering work in demanding environments and on accelerated schedules.

Operating throughout the Midwest, Kissick Construction performs work for municipal, industrial, commercial, and institutional clients, utilizing extensive in house resources, specialized equipment, and highly trained crews. The company’s expertise includes underground utility systems, industrial plant improvements, environmental remediation, transportation infrastructure, and architectural concrete and stonework, with a focus on quality, safety, and the ability to execute technically challenging projects of varying scale and complexity.

 

Heritage Consulting Group – Silver Sponsor

Heritage Consulting Group is a national historic preservation consulting firm that specializes in securing historic tax credit approvals and other incentives for the rehabilitation of historic properties. Heritage has completed over 2,000 projects across the country and currently has projects in most major cities coast to coast. In 2024, Heritage acquired Rosin Preservation, a premier historic preservation consulting firm based in Kansas City. This strategic acquisition unites two of the leading historic tax credit consulting firms in the United States, further solidifying Heritage’s leadership in the industry.

Marvin – Silver Sponsor

Marvin has been solving historic rehabilitation challenges for decades—collaborating early on with architects, facilities managers and general contractors; reviewing products and options; navigating the National Parks Service guidelines; discussing window specifications with local historic commissions; and attending field testing. Adept at maintaining accuracy and architectural integrity, the professionals at Marvin craft customized historic windows and doors for residential and large-scale commercial buildings. Bring your historic project to life for tailored solutions of all complexity levels.

Design Spout – Bronze Sponsor

Design Spout is a Kansas City based interior design firm founded by Kristyn Iman, offering interior design services for residential, hospitality, and commercial projects. With nearly two decades of experience, the firm specializes in creating interiors that complement the architecture and are tailored to the ways clients live and function within a space. Design Spout provides services ranging from schematic design and finish selections to 3D renderings, construction documentation, and project coordination.

Sturgis – Bronze Sponsor

Sturgis Materials is Kansas City’s finest and most complete supplier of building materials. At Sturgis Materials, we create one-of-a-kind works from granite, marble and limestone.  The stone fabrication division of Sturgis Materials has been cutting limestone, marble and granite for over 20 years. From design to installation, all work is created to meet the needs of the individual customer.

Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers – Bronze Sponsor

Martin/Martin, Inc. is a full-service civil and structural consulting engineering firm, headquartered in the Denver area, built on experience and industry leadership cultivated since the 1940s. Our engineered solutions are developed through a culture of integrity, service, creativity, and quality for the benefit of our clients and the community.

GKW Restoration – Bronze Sponsor

GKW Restoration is committed to providing you with the highest level of service, so you’ll always choose us for your masonry needs. We genuinely care about your project and your experience, and it shows in everything we do. Renovation and preservation projects are done with care and concern for architectural and structural integrity as well as beauty and function.

SFS Architecture – Bronze Sponsor

Design is what we do, it’s what we love. And what we love most is design that is dynamic and sustainable, enduring and enriching – design that builds relationships between people, their communities and the larger environment.

Stark Wilson Duncan Architects – Bronze Sponsor

Stark Wilson Duncan Architects Inc (SWD) is a full-service architectural firm with experience in a wide range of projects with an emphasis on historic preservation / rehabilitation. SWD’s thoughtful vision for rehabilitation of neglected buildings in urban settings has played a major role in revitalizing existing deteriorated urban areas.

RetroChem/ RetroPros – Bronze Sponsor

Our esteemed craftsmen are dedicated to the art of architectural preservation and passionate about delivering the highest quality of client satisfaction.  Matching historic finishes, ornamental cast, terrazzo repairs, fabrication, and replication are just a few of the highly specialized services we offer.

Helix – Business Sponsor

Helix Architecture + Design is an integrated architecture and interior design firm with offices in Kansas City and Denver. Their diverse portfolio of work includes workplace, academic, cultural, mixed-use, multifamily, civic, and hospitality projects as well as specialized expertise with renovation, adaptive reuse and preservation of historic buildings.

Lisa Schmitz Interior Design – Business Sponsor

We believe in modern with soul. In luxury for everyday living. In minimalist interiors with maximum style. That simple done right is stunning. And that interiors are the backdrop for the art and people you love.  The Lisa Schmitz team believes in livable, usable spaces that best capture the heart and interests of their clients while still respecting the integrity of their original structure.

Lewis Rice LLC – Business Sponsor

A significant part of Lewis Rice’s real estate practice is devoted to development and redevelopment projects. Increasingly, projects like these are eligible for economic development incentives or other governmental benefits and incentives, and we help our clients discover and employ such incentives.

Taylor Original Wood Window Restoration – Business Sponsor

We specialize in the restoration and sustainability of original wood windows. These irreplaceable characteristics of the wood, plus your original wood windows fine craftsmanship not only add superior performance over time, they add value, character and lasting charm to your home or building.

Wallace Design Collective – Business Sponsor

Wallace Design Collective is a structural and civil engineering consulting firm. We have extensive expertise in the design of new buildings as well as in the evaluation, renovation and repair of existing structures.

Screenland Real Estate Services – Business Sponsor

Kansas City-based real estate development partnership. The partnership focuses primarily on adaptive-reuse opportunities and its guiding philosophy is the implementation of creative collaborative change through redevelopment.

Straub Construction – Business Sponsor

We restore buildings and community pride by breathing new life into historic structures, making what’s old new again. If the walls could talk. As your general contractor, we’ll create spaces that foster what community means to you.

Remodel Moore – Business Sponsor

 We build forever homes, where care, precision and excellence meet home remodeling. Founded in 2004, we specialize in renovating Kansas City’s finest homes — from partial and whole house remodels to additions and new construction. Our transparent approach to the design+build experience allows us to develop holistic build plans in collaboration with some of the best craftsmen in the region — ensuring our projects are done well, on time and on budget.

HL Restoration – Business Sponsor

HL Restoration provides 24/7 emergency cleanup, repair, and restoration services for commercial properties throughout Kansas City and the surrounding region. With more than 90 years of experience, the firm serves as a comprehensive, single sourced contractor managing all phases of disaster recovery, from emergency response and initial cleanup to restoration and final inspection. HL Restoration is committed to professionalism, quality, and innovation, working to complete projects efficiently and help clients return to business without undue delays.

Flick Truck Accident Law – Business Sponsor

Flick Truck Accident Law is hyper-focused on providing high quality representation for people like you injured in truck accidents. Many personal injury attorneys handle a variety of cases like medical malpractice claims, slip and fall cases, product liability, car wrecks, workers compensation and others. Truck wreck cases are different. Doing them well takes specialized knowledge and skills. We have the knowledge, skills, experience and track record to deliver results for you.

Forward Design – Business Sponsor

Forward Design | Architecture works on residential projects that focus on both new construction and restoring mid-century modern homes with an updated twist. Every project we undertake is designed to be responsive to the individual needs of each client, user and location.