News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
UMKC Seeks Ideas to Revitalize Historic Epperson House
By Kevin Collison UMKC is seeking ideas to save and revitalize the Epperson House, a vacant, century-old former mansion on its campus that’s been a repeat nominee on Historic KC’s most endangered list. In recent press release, the university stated it was seeking “creative solutions to restore and reopen” the Collegiate Gothic-style mansion. Construction on…
East Crossroads Brewers & Friends Band Together to Promote District
By Kevin Collison Six years after Border Brewing, its first microbrewery, opened, the East Crossroads and its band of merry brewers, distillers and vintners are touting their area as a big regional draw and working together to promote it. “We’ve become a tourist destination,” said Lara Gray, co-owner of Casual Animal. “We see people from…
Bills for Spire Customers in Kansas City Spike 40%, St. Louis 25%
Spire Missouri customers will see big hikes in their natural gas bills this winter, with residents in the Kansas City area hit the hardest, as the energy market continues to struggle following February’s deep freeze.
Homeless LGBTQ Youth Find Shelter at Pride Haven
SAVE Inc. operates Pride Haven, an overnight youth shelter that serves homeless LGBTQ people.
Council Committee Supports $83.4M Insurance Firm HQ Plan
By Kevin Collison Fidelity Security Life’s proposed 11-story headquarters project at 27th and Main had its incentive request endorsed unanimously Wednesday by a City Council committee over the objections of the nearby Union Hill neighborhood. The $83.4 development would be located on a 2.7-acre site currently owned by Crown Center Redevelopment, and would be the…
KC Council Committee Supports Crown Center Office Tower Near Streetcar Stop
Fidelity Security Life’s proposed 11-story headquarters project at 27th and Main streets had its incentive request endorsed unanimously Wednesday by a City Council committee over the objections of the nearby Union Hill neighborhood.
Missouri Health Department Found Mask Mandates Work, But Didn’t Make Findings Public
Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows.
‘Highway to Hemp’: Waves of Fiber and Grain
South Bend Industrial Hemp, located at the outskirts of Great Bend, Kansas, is at the cutting edge of the emerging industrial hemp economy.
KC Preservation Projects Failing Key State Incentive Program
By Kevin Collison Early last month, the $69 million renovation of the former “Flashcube” office building at 720 Main into apartments received an honors award as an innovative preservation project from Historic Kansas City. The city’s premier historic preservation organization also recognized the 273-unit West Bottoms Flats development at 925 Wyoming St. with its excellence…
KC Preservation Projects Failing Key State Incentive Program
Changes implemented by the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) are making it much more challenging for downtown residential projects in Kansas City to qualify for the state historic tax credit program.