Transportation
Bally Submits $61M Upgrade Plan for Former Isle of Capri Casino
By Kevin Collison Bally, the owner of the former Isle of Capri Casino, now Casino KC, has filed a plan with the city that calls for encasing the fake riverboat with a contemporary facade and building 38,400 square feet of commercial space. In a second phase, the plan calls for a seven-story, 150-room hotel to…
Read MoreBusy Westport Intersection Calmed by Street Art
By Kevin Collison The intersection of Westport Road and Wyandotte is a calmer, more attractive place thanks to DuRon Netsell and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. A $25,000 grant from the Asphalt Art Initiative, one of Bloomberg’s philanthropic endeavors, has allowed Netsell to blend traffic-calming measures and street art to create a whole new…
Read MoreFTA Grants Full $174M for Streetcar Extension to UMKC, Signing Early January
(Updated Jan. 7, 2021: Federal officials are scheduled to finalize full funding for the Main Street streetcar extension project at an event tomorrow (Friday) morning, according to a media alert from the Kansas City Streetcar Authority. Federal Transit Administration Deputy Administrator K. Jane Williams, Mayor Quinton Lucas and City Manager Brian Platt, local elected officials,…
Read More‘Wrapped with Heart’ Negro Leagues Celebration Rolling
By Kevin Collison It started as a million-dollar year for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum until Covid-19 hit in March. The pandemic forced the cancellation of several events planned this year to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the Negro Leagues and raise money for its museum in the 18th & Vine Historic District.…
Read MorePenn Valley Campus Adding Engineering Technology Building
The engineering technology program at Metropolitan Community College is being relocated to the school’s Penn Valley campus near downtown and will be housed in a $7.2 million addition that began construction last month. The new MCC Engineering Technology building is going up on the south side of the Penn Valley Carter Art Center and the…
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