Developers make big impact with small urban-core projects

UC-B Properties is making a big impact with small residential projects in Kansas City’s urban core.

John Hoffman, who retired from a 33-year career with Morgan Stanley in 2002, started the development firm that year as Urban Coeur Properties. Ten years later, it was renamed UC-B Properties.

That’s because Hoffman joined forces with Bridger Properties, a similar firm launched by his son-in-law, Lance Carlton, who moved to Kansas City from Boston in 2011 with his wife (Hoffman’s daughter) and their…