Civic Affairs
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…
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…
Plaza Development Conflict Erupts, 1940s Church Likely Casualty
By Kevin Collison The Country Club Plaza is at a development flash point again over the likely demolition of an attractive, but unprotected, old church and a developer’s plan to replace it with a three-level restaurant project. Drake Development intends to raze the Seventh Church of Christ, Scientists at 47th and Pennsylvania and build a…
NFL Draft May Make Next Year Busiest in KC Sports History
By Kevin Collison Next year may be the busiest in Kansas City sports history including up to 350,000 visitors coming downtown next spring for the 2023 NFL Draft, according to a top local sports official. “Four weeks of collegiate basketball, then we roll into our first ever Sports ETA convention, our national association of sports…
Private Cleanup Fixes ‘Horrible’ Trash Problem Beneath Bartle Hall
By Kevin Collison Piles of trash that had accumulated beneath Bartle Hall on MoDOT property along I-670 were removed this week by unique private effort that included eight people working off their community service hours. The day-long effort organized by the Downtown Council Community Improvement District (CID) occurred after futile efforts to persuade the Missouri…