It looks like the “Katz on Main” apartment complex project is testing yet another of its nine lives, being clawed again by nearly $1 million in fresh mechanic’s liens after failing to pay contractors for their work on the project.

Meanwhile the historic facade on Kansas City’s Main Street sits unfinished.

For nearly one year, little to no work has progressed on the facade, which includes the front brick work and Moderne clock tower of the locally iconic Katz Drug Store. At its opening in December 1934, the 20,000-square-foot building at Main Street and Westport Road was said to be the then-largest drug store in the world.

It was air-conditioned, a rarity at the time. The drug store’s exterior and clock tower became a local landmark, placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places

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