Hospital Infrastructure

This month on Flatland we’re hearing from healthcare professionals about the toll recurring Covid-19 surges are taking on our healthcare system. While our most recent surge of Omicron was often described as mild, the number of hospitalizations still packed beds and spread an already exhausted workforce thin. We’ll discuss how our response to the pandemic…

Read More >

The KC Star Relocating Offices to Crown Center

By Kevin Collison The Kansas City Star is leasing 8,500 square-feet for its new offices in the 2405 Grand building at Crown Center, a steep decline from its peak when the paper owned 659,000 square feet of downtown real estate. The relocation to about a half floor in an upper level of the office tower…

Read More >
Casual Animal has a couple new options for its flights

Weekend Possibilities | Dim Sum Brewery Pop-Up, NCAA Basketball Watch Party, Brookside’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Weekend options range from leftover St. Patrick’s Day parties to World of Wheels at Kansas City Convention Center.

Read More >

The Post-Pandemic Health Care (Staffing) Crisis

KC health care workers tell all about the toll recurring COVID-19 surges took on them. And what they need.

Read More >
Denslow Brown working on Womyn's Land.

‘Womyn’s Land’: A Rural Version of ‘Womontown’

Like Womontown, Womyn’s Land was created as a place for lesbians who wanted to withdraw from an oppressive “mainstream world” to feel safe and empowered.

Read More >

Pennway Point Proposal Would Add Ferris Wheel to Downtown

By Kevin Collison An entertainment district at the south end of the Broadway viaduct that would include a 170-foot Ferris wheel, neon sign museum and food is the latest downtown proposal from developer Vince Bryant. The “Pennway Point” proposal is in the early stage of planning and would include the renovation of the former Carter…

Read More >
A rendering of how the Pennway Point entertainment proposal looking south.

Pennway Point Proposal Would Add Ferris Wheel to Downtown

An entertainment district at the south end of the Broadway viaduct that would include a 170-foot Ferris wheel, neon sign museum and food is the latest downtown proposal from developer Vince Bryant.

Read More >
Storefront of Browne’s Irish Marketplace

Sláinte! Browne’s Irish Marketplace Turns 135

A longtime landmark in Kansas City’s Irish community is set to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with even more joy than usual this year.

Read More >

Samuel Rodgers Planning $15M Pediatric Wing at Health Campus

By Kevin Collison Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center is planning to build a four-story pediatrics wing at Seventh and Euclid, the latest project in the works for its campus near downtown. The health center’s plan for a what’s described as a two-level, 32,000 square-foot  medical office building atop a 382-space, two-level garage is scheduled to…

Read More >
Andy Rieger and Ryan Maybee revived J. Rieger & Co. whiskey in the East Bottoms.

Tap List | J. Rieger and KU Collaborate On New Rye

J. Rieger & Co. has teamed up with the University of Kansas for a new collaboration, Rock Chalk Straight Rye Whiskey.

Read More >