EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – City leaders have chosen an architect to assist efforts to preserve the Hall of Waters. Strata ranked among three companies that bid on the project, Economic Development Director Melinda Mehaffy stated in an April memo to city leaders. The other companies were Piper-Wind Architects Inc., also of Kansas City; and TreanorHL, a company with 10 offices around the country, including one in Kansas City and another in Lawrence, Kansas. The city is using a Save America’s Treasures grant received in 2020 from the National Park Service to use Strata’s services. Choosing Strata is “one of our first Choosing Strata is “one of our first steps” in complying with the conditions required by the grant to preserve the Depression-era building, Mehaffy told city leaders. The city is taking another step this month by “working on design contracts – design and elements that we need to have done,” she said. On April 19, the City Council approved Strata Architecture and Preservation of…