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‘Imagine Downtown KC’ Community Planning Initiative Kicks Off Tuesday
The Downtown Council is launching a new planning initiative that will be seeking citizen input to help guide priorities for the next 10 years beginning Tuesday with a Zoom community workshop. “Imagine Downtown KC” is being described as a collaborative process to develop a shared vision for development and economic inclusion, and will serve as…
Hot Pink T-Mobile Center Will Have Very Chill Debut
By Kevin Collison When what was then called the Sprint Center debuted in 2007, it had a roaring start with Sir Elton John and then a nine-day run by Garth Brooks kicking off its debut. As the newly-renamed T-Mobile Center, the first sounds inside the big glass bowl at 13th and Grand hopefully will be…
Union Station Hitches Covid Rebound Hopes on ‘Dinosaur Road Trip’
By Kevin Collison “Dinosaur Road Trip,” Union Station’s new exhibition, is a fun, kitschy blend of dinosaurs, roadside attractions and corny 1950s Godzilla movies, but before you hit the hokey highway, the ramp was bumpy. Like other Kansas City cultural institutions hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, Union Station was in dire straits after being forced…
River Market Apartment Project Starts Work Soon, Opening Summer 2022
By Kevin Collison Work on the latest new apartment development in the River Market, the Ashland on Third project, is expected to begin later this month. The 94-unit, market-rate project being developed by KC Commercial Realty Group was first approved by the City Council in February 2018 and was praised by then-Councilman Quinton Lucas for…
Troost Midtown Project Underway, First Historic Building Ready by Fall
By Kevin Collison Work is well underway on a $17 million redevelopment project along Troost Avenue that is restoring three historic building as office and retail space and a proposed museum of regional Native American culture. The Troost Midtown Project, which was approved for tax incentive assistance more than a year ago, includes the renovation…