Real Estate and Development
How would you characterize a commercial real-estate market where rents today, in many cases, are unchanged from 10 years, 15 years, even 20 years ago? One might think it a market in distress. But anecdotal instances of that, while telling…
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When Ingram’s hosted its 2018 Commercial Real Estate Industry Outlook assembly in November, major players in the field likened growth in the Kansas City market to a baseball game, one that was probably in its latter innings. A slowdown could…
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Despite the U.S. economy experiencing one of its best six-month stretches in a decade and the unemployment rate reaching historic lows, the Wall Street Journal reported this week that U.S. existing home sales are declining, and have been for eight…
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The 92-year-old Lyric Theatre building on Central St. will finally begin gaining fresh life this week. The building will be redeveloped into a new $35 million Downtown YMCA, and the construction kickoff is set for tomorrow. With the name Kirk…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ART1VDB2STY&t=101s The partner from Husch Blackwell is helping to represent the city during the airport project, and in this video, he gives a detailed and exclusive update on the current status of the development process.
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A Los Angeles-based company has jumped on the Midwestern bandwagon. ChowNow announced today it will open a new office in the Kansas City area and will add 100 jobs to the region. Kansas City beat out other highly competitive markets…
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Life is finally returning to the land where the Great Mall of the Great Plains once stood in Olathe. Woodbury Corporation announced that it will propose to redevelop the site as a $300 million mixed-use property. With the name Mentum,…
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The $400 million Gateway Sports Village project in Grandview is pushing ahead, with plans for site work in place and sales/leasing activity picking up, developers say. The trio of Deron Cherry, Greg Cotton and Shane Hackett announced today that they…
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From the Plaza and the Crossroads to Downtown and the Riverfront, new apartment complexes have been springing up around Kansas City, Mo. in spades the last two years. And in 2017, 91 percent of these new complexes had something in…
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Before you can compile a roster of the most influential business executives in a market of nearly 3 million people, you first must define what it means to have influence as an executive, what it means to wield that power,…
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