Proposed City Market Apartment Tower Hailed as Future Development Model

By | January 11, 2022 |

By Kevin Collison A 13-story, 300-unit apartment development planned for just west of the City Market was endorsed by a Port KC committee Monday after being hailed by the city manager as a   model for future downtown development. The $75 million project proposed for what’s now a city-owned parking lot would occupy a  one-acre…

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Streetcar to Stretch Farther Toward New Riverfront Soccer Stadium

By | January 7, 2022 |

By Kevin Collison The planned riverfront streetcar extension will be almost three soccer fields longer than originally planned to bring riders closer to the new KC Current stadium to be built east of Berkley Park. Streetcar chief Tom Gerend said a revised plan for the half-mile streetcar extension now brings the line to the middle…

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Converting O’Neil Bridge to Linear Park ‘Top Priority’ for City Officials

By | December 14, 2021 |

(Editor’s note, updated March 3: The city announced today it is issuing a request for proposals/qualifications to study the reuse of the existing Buck O’Neil Bridge. The study will be done by the City of Kansas City, Jackson County and Clay County using $300,000 from the Missouri Department of Transportation. “The study will gather public…

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East Crossroads Brewers & Friends Band Together to Promote District

By | December 3, 2021 |

By Kevin Collison Six years after Border Brewing, its first microbrewery, opened, the East Crossroads and its band of merry brewers, distillers and vintners are touting their area as a big regional draw and working together to promote it. “We’ve become a tourist destination,” said Lara Gray, co-owner of Casual Animal.  “We see people from…

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Mayor ‘Bullish’ About Federal Grant for South Loop Link Proposal

By | November 10, 2021 |

By Kevin Collison A recent trip to Washington has left Mayor Quinton Lucas “bullish” that federal funding to help start building a long-sought deck and park covering the South Loop freeway may be announced before the end of the year. The mayor said Tuesday his confidence is based on conversations he had with senior officials…

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