Building Community Through Attainable Housing
The Argentine Neighborhood Development Association has served this Kansas City, Kansas neighborhood since the early 2000's — supporting new sidewalks, park improvements, police station interiors, and homes that families could truly afford. After a quiet period, a new board has relaunched the association in 2026. The mission has not changed: revitalize Argentine.
The Argentine Neighborhood Development Association was founded by neighbors who believed their community deserved investment — in the streets they lived on, the storefronts that stood empty, and the families who wanted a reason to stay. From the beginning, the mission was a single line: revitalize Argentine.
Across its years of work, ANDA helped strengthen Argentine through housing, public spaces, community facilities, and neighborhood infrastructure, often alongside local residents and public and private partners.
Vega Field and Emerson Park improvements were completed in partnership with local residents and the Unified Government Parks and Recreation Department.
ANDA contributed funding toward interior equipment and furnishings for the KCK Police Department offices in Argentine.
A collaboration with local gym owners brought Metro 24 KC within walking distance of home.
ANDA's previous Executive Director forged the partnerships that helped bring the neighborhood a place to read, study, meet, and belong.
Sidewalk repairs and new affordable homes, delivered block by block.
After its founding era, the association gradually went dormant, and much of its property was sold. In time, the board faced a clear decision: donate the remaining funds to another nonprofit, or put them back to work in Argentine.
The board chose to start again.
Years earlier, a pedestrian project had turned an intersection at the heart of Argentine into a neighborhood focal point — but without water or upkeep, the plantings failed.
That corner is where ANDA's relaunch took shape. Board chairman Ernesto Tinoco and executive director Rob Richardson met through plans to restore it. ANDA is working to secure the easement and right-of-way so the corner can be replanted with landscaping and irrigation designed to be maintained. Revitalization is planned for late 2026 or early 2027.
Some Argentine families had paid on their homes for years believing they owned them, yet never held the deed. ANDA reviewed the records and offered each family the deed to the home they were living in.
The association then walked beside every family on the way to true ownership — helping with financing and pre-approval, covering agent commissions, and paying part of the closing costs. In the most recent closing, a home appraised at $274,000 was sold to the family living in it for $200,000.
ANDA plans to develop a new round of affordable homes in Argentine, with design and pricing still to come.
The intersection where the relaunch began is planned to receive new landscaping and irrigation in late 2026 or early 2027, with long-term maintenance built into the project.
Future neighborhood meetings will give residents a voice in what the association builds next.
Whether you fund community work, serve in government, or call this neighborhood home, we'd like to hear from you.