Who’s Winning, and Losing, In Port KC Development Projects

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When Kansas City needed help to keep a prestigious global architecture firm from leaving town last year, it reached out to an unlikely partner — the Port Authority of Kansas City. The loss of the firm, Populous architecture, which designs sports arenas around the world, would have been a huge blow to Kansas City and…

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The Biz Behind Missouri’s River Highway

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This spring, there’s new life on the Missouri River – and it’s more than buds on trees or fish in the water. Barge traffic may be on the verge of a renaissance. At least that’s the hope of Port KC, which reopened the Woodswether terminal in the West Bottoms last year. The facility, currently the only…

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Hopes for new life, and new traffic, at KC barge terminal

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The view from Kansas City’s old river barge terminal in the West Bottoms offers a panoramic sweep of the downtown skyline, and a glimpse of just about every mode of transportation. Planes fly in and out of Wheeler Downtown Airport just across the Missouri River, and trains and trucks haul freight over the Broadway and…

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