News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Advisory Group Endorses 12-Story Apartment Tower for River Market
By Kevin Collison A proposal to build a 12-story, 300-unit apartment tower on a parking lot immediately west of the City Market has been endorsed by a review committee reporting to Port KC. The $75 million plan submitted by Flaherty & Collins of Indianapolis was recommended over a competing proposal from RM Housing, a local…
Museum Apartment Tower, $116M Project, Proposed for 45th and Main
By Kevin Collison Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed for the gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main, is among the development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month. The bump in applications to the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas…
Museum Tower, $116 Million Apartment Project, Proposed for 45th and Main
Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed as a gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main streets, leads the list of development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month.
Stories of Pandemic Unemployment: ‘It … Eats Away at You’
Low wages, risky jobs put LGBTQ+ People, BIPOC and women in the economic line of fire pre- and post-pandemic.
Our Pandemic Year: Kansas City Reflects on COVID-19
As we reach the one-year milestone of living in the pandemic, Kansas Citians reflect on how their lives have changed.
Katz Proposal Purrs Past Plan Commission
By Kevin Collison Some design tweaks to a proposed apartment development that also would restore the historic Katz Drug Store in Midtown helped the project win unanimous support from the City Plan Commission Tuesday. In response to feedback from neighborhood groups and preservationists, the lower levels of the six-story apartment building now will be likely…
Katz Drug Store Proposal Purrs Past Plan Commission
Design tweaks to a proposed apartment development that also would restore the historic Katz Drug Store in midtown helped the project win unanimous support from the City Plan Commission.
‘Steward of the Land’: Missouri Farmer Foresees Successful 2021
A Missouri farmer keeps a wary eye on the unruly Missouri River as grain prices soar and federal subsidies flow.
Crossroads Community Association Celebrates 20 Years Creating a Neighborhood
By Kevin Collison When the Crossroads Community Association began 20 years ago, its sprawling 90-block turf of old, brick commercial buildings sandwiched between downtown and Crown Center was facing an identity crisis. The area was finishing its pioneering phase that began in 1985 when artist Jim Leedy found real estate cheap enough in the deserted…
About $600 Million in Rental Assistance Coming in Kansas, Missouri
Kansas City area organizations are working to show renters and landlords how to access emergency rental assistance stemming from federal stimulus plans following the COVID-19 pandemic.