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Nick Haines

Nick’s Picks | Tricks, Treats and News of the Week

This week’s news preview includes Halloween, daylight savings time and more Kansas City Royals ballpark drama.

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Entrance of St. Luke's Hospital.

Finding Faith in Hospital Settings

Hospital chaplains discuss clinical pastoral education, the special training designed to practice faith in various health care and other institutional settings.

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Main Street Buildings at Center of Landmark Controversy for Sale

By Kevin Collison A group of buildings at 31st and Main that were declared historic over the owner’s objection last year are back in play, and preservation advocates are hopeful about their prospects to be saved from destruction. “This is the opportunity provided by listing them as a local landmark,” said Lisa Briscoe of Historic…

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LuxLiving Drops Two Downtown Apartment Proposals, Still Pursuing Tower Plan

By Kevin Collison LuxLiving, the St. Louis apartment developer building the Katz project, has dropped two downtown residential deals but is still pursuing its big apartment and hotel high-rise proposal at 14th and Wyandotte. Lux scrapped its plan to build at 250-unit apartment development on riverfront property owned by Port KC. The developer also is…

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Lux Living has dropped its plan for a 250-unit apartment development at the downtown riverfront.

Lux Living Drops Two Apartment Projects, Still Pursues Tower Plan

LuxLiving, which is building the Katz project, has dropped two downtown residential deals but is still pursuing its big apartment and hotel high-rise proposal at 14th and Wyandotte.

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