Martin City Hopes for Opportunity Zone Boost

Martin City

Martin City boosters now hope to leverage its unique down-home-but-high-tech vibe as an Opportunity Zone, a federal program that encourages investors to reinvest capital gains in economically distressed areas.

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Taming the Mighty Mo

Missouri River channel

Port KC President and CEO Jon Stephens provides a brief curiousKC history of the channeling of the Missouri River.

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The ABCs of Port KC

A barge on a river

This week KCUR reporter Suzanne Hogan and KCPT reporter Mike McGraw are exploring the economics behind Missouri River navigation and Port KC development. During a conversation that aired today on KCUR 89.3, McGraw told Hogan, “Historically, the port has been just about the river and a big freight facility down in southern Kansas City. But…

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