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Gun Violence Persists as New KCMO Mayor Takes Office
Gun Violence Persists as New KCMO Mayor Takes Office
Kimpton Wins City Incentives, $95M Luxury Hotel Plans 2021 Opening
(Updated July 10, 2020. Plans to redevelop the Holiday Inn at 45th and Main into a luxury Kimpton Hotel have fallen through. Jim Purinton, managing director of Chicago-based Janko Group, said the national meltdown in the hospitality market caused by the Covid-19 crisis made it impossible to arrange private financing for the proposed $95 million…
Barrel of the Bottoms Rolls Out Podcasts and Laughs
By Kevin Collison Barrel of the Bottoms is a recording studio with a sense of humor on the side. Now in its second year, the venture in the historic Hobbs building offers space for creatives to write and record, while doubling as a comedy club with weekly open improv sessions for aspiring amateurs and professional…
Sponsored Post: When Amazon Came Calling, Downtown Nashville was Ready
Editor’s note: In April, the Downtown Council invited CityScene KC to attend an Urban Land Institute Conference in Nashville, Tennessee with a leadership delegation from the Council. They had heard downtown Nashville’s speculative office development market was robust, and wanted to learn the reasons why and determine if there were any lessons for Kansas City….
Sikh Temple Will Highlight U.S Religious Pluralism At Lenexa Corner
On the southwest corner of 101st Street and Lone Elm Road in southwest Lenexa, not far from the Falcon Ridge Golf Course, is a large church. It’s a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, usually called the Mormons. The path from the creation of Mormonism in the early 1800s to today…