Port KC

An aerial photo of the Missouri River in downtown Kansas City on. Jan. 12, 2017.

Shaping the Future of the Missouri River

Kansas City is striving to strike a balance that allows the Missouri River to serve our competing needs for recreation, navigation, economic development and clean water.

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Martin City Hopes for Opportunity Zone Boost

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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NorthPoint riverfront apartment project

Big Apartment Project Coming to Missouri Riverfront

NorthPoint Development plans to break ground on a 353-unit apartment complex near Berkley Riverfront Park this summer after the Port KC board unanimously approved incentives for the project Monday.

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Taming the Mighty Mo

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

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

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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Illustration of a lonely boat on the Missouri river

The Biz Behind Missouri’s River Highway

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

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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