Panthers Place a Tropical Hideaway Tucked in West Side

By Kevin Collison Imagine you’re in a secret tropical hideaway, sipping a cold beer straight from a tub brimming with ice and suddenly noticing a rusty old VW bus nestled in the vines. Welcome to Panthers Place, a West Side discovery just off Southwest Boulevard that began more than 15 years ago as the personal…

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After 50 Years at Truman, Royals and Chiefs Looking at Amicable Split

Truman Sports Complex

By Kevin Collison After a half century being a couple at the Truman Sports Complex, the Chiefs and Royals are leaning toward an amicable breakup, at least that’s the takeaway team executives offered last week. “The Chiefs and the Royals are out there together, the collaboration is great and we appreciate all of that,” Brooks…

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Plan to Cap Freeway Dividing Downtown Wins Strong Fed and Private Support

By Kevin Collison Federal elected officials joined Mayor Quinton Lucas Friday to say they’re confident funding can be arranged to build a four-block park deck over the South Loop. “This is going to be the rare project where we announced it, we talked about it, but you will see shovels in the ground soon,” Lucas…

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Dillard’s Said to be in Talks for Plaza Nordstrom Site

(Editor’s note, updated April 12: Nordstrom is no longer listing a plan to open a Plaza location on its website. The Plaza owners have released a statement: “Taubman and Macerich, the owners of Country Club Plaza, and Nordstrom have mutually agreed not to move forward with the new Nordstrom store slated for the district. Taubman…

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Imagine KC Strategic Plan Seeks More ‘Equitable Downtown’

By Kevin Collison A strategic plan that encompasses neighborhoods more than a mile from the skyscrapers of its central business district and envisions downtown as an economic catalyst for that larger area was rolled out Tuesday by the Downtown Council. The new Imagine Downtown KC 2030 Strategic Plan was two years in the making and seeks…

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