Downtown

homeless shelter resident Matthew Hamblin

Downtown Homeless Shelter On Brink of Closure

reStart’s 90-bed downtown homeless facility is on the brink of closure unless it gets a last-minute financial bailout.

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Buck O'Neil Bridge

MoDOT Recommends New Buck O’Neil Bridge With Direct Access to Interstate 35

A new Buck O’Neil Bridge that would provide a direct connection between U.S. 169 and Interstate 35 is the preferred plan of the Missouri Department of Transportation.

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Streetcars on Main Street

New Federal Analysis Spurs Hope for Kansas City Streetcar Extension

A new federal transit report is supportive of plans to finance a Main Street streetcar extension from downtown to the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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A view of Three Light from the south.

Three Light Construction Start Expected by Early Summer

Construction of the Three Light luxury apartment tower in downtown Kansas City is set to begin by early summer.

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Paul Goldberger, author of "Ballpark: Baseball in the American City."

Downtown Ballpark for Kansas City Royals Now Makes Sense, Speaker Says

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paul Goldberger says that now is a good time for Kansas City to consider a downtown ballpark for the Kansas City Royals.

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Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman.

New Royals Owner Talks About Downtown Baseball, East Village

New Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman discusses sites where a downtown baseball stadium could work.

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curiousKC Follows the Artists

Flatland’s curiousKC team explores where the artists are moving as the Crossroads become evermore commercialized.

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Twelfth Street Recreation

A Sporting Joint in Old Downtown

Flatland’s curiousKC team takes a trip down memory lane at Twelfth Street Recreation, also known as to some as Miller’s Recreation.

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Mashburn Development is proposed a hotel and apartment project at 1650 Broadway just west of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

High-Rise Apartments and Hotel Proposed Near Kauffman Center

Mashburn Development is proposing an ambitious $100 million hotel and apartment project across Broadway from the Kauffman Center.

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Maxus Properties wants to redevelop 11 buildings along the west side of The Paseo as affordable housing.

Developer Proposes Big Affordable Housing Project Near Downtown

Maxus Properties plans to redevelop 11 deteriorated apartment buildings along The Paseo just east of downtown Kansas City into 197 affordable apartments.

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