News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Checking Out: Some Say Hotels Aren’t the Key to Sheltering the Unhoused
Efforts to temporarily shelter the unhoused in Kansas City area hotels and motels have faced a variety of challenges.
Historic KC Releases ‘Endangered’ List, Includes Plaza, Katz Drugstore
This year’s “Most Endangered Places List” from Historic Kansas City includes not only buildings such as the Katz Drug Store, but raises a red flag about the city’s most prized district, the Country Club Plaza. Each year, the city’s premier historic preservation group prepares a list of buildings and places that are threatened by shifting…
Missourians Losing Big When it Comes to Cyber Crime
Cyber crime is surging, and Missouri suffered the largest average loss in the country during 2020.
Renovated Lightwell Tower Brightens Downtown Office Market
By Kevin Collison The wall of live plants is flourishing, the tired 90s interior look gone, the contemporary art from the Haw Gallery is hung and the old pool table from the St. Louis Playboy club is racked and ready. lightwell, the $85 million overhaul of the former City Center Square office tower, is pitching…
Missouri Eases Rules for Building CAFOs Despite Outcry About Potential Pollution
Missouri regulators on Tuesday eased the rules governing design of massive industrial hog facilities in a move critics claim was meant to help one controversial facility.
Surveys Say: People Ponder Life in a (Nearly) Post-Pandemic World
Three surveys conducted by data company Invisibly show that some attitudes about returning to pre-pandemic life have not changed significantly over the last 10 months.
Big Apartment Project Proposed for Volker Neighborhood by KU Med
By Kevin Collison Milhaus, one of the city’s most prolific apartment builders, is pursuing a 224-unit project in the Volker neighborhood on what’s now a parking lot across State Line Road from the KU Med campus. The proposed Jamestown Square development would be located on what’s now a large surface lot serving businesses along 39th…
Big Apartment Project Proposed for Volker Neighborhood by KU Med
Milhaus is pursuing a 224-unit project in the Volker neighborhood on what’s now a parking lot across State Line Road from the KU Med campus.
KC Taco Expanding for Third Time in River Market
By Kevin Collison Arthur Leduc of Kansas City Taco Co. has found the hunger for his non-traditional, urban taqueria so great he’s about to expand his River Market restaurant for the third time since opening two years ago. “One of the reasons I wanted to open a restaurant in Kansas City is that I’ve never…
Plans for Hotel, Mid-Rise Apartments, Move Forward on Riverfront
By Kevin Collison A Port KC committee recommended this week the agency sell two parcels along the downtown riverfront to developers pursuing two projects, a 120-room boutique hotel and a seven-story apartment plan. The developer of the five-story hotel, whose identity has not been disclosed, has been in negotiations with Port KC for almost two…