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Renewed efforts to turn the vacant 13-story downtown office building has arrived as an application for property tax breaks and credits from Bernstein Cos. Bernstein bought the building from Maxus Properties Inc. in November for $13 million. In April 2019,…
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Wall Street’s most anticipated FOMC meeting in years occurred two weeks ago. Chairman Powell did not let Wall Street down in his testimony concerning the state of the economy and what plans the Fed has regarding Monetary Policy in the…
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The latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index released Tuesday, Dec. 28 shows the month of October did not disappoint with home price gains. Covering all nine U.S. census divisions, the report showed a 19.1 percent annual gain in…
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Earlier this month, Google purchased a sizable chunk of Kansas City land. In mid-December, the well-known internet services and web products company bought additional acreage north of the Hunt Midwest Business Center. In August 2019, Google acquired 78.9 acres within…
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Q: Can you tell us a bit about what the new infrastructure plan could potentially mean to MBE/MWE construction-related firms in the Kansas City region? A: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will provide significant funds to address the…
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Fourteen months after the first sale to a qualified patient occurred in a Missouri medical marijuana dispensary, the total sales as part of the state-regulated medical marijuana program reached the $200 million mark, the state Department of Revenue has announced.…
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The acquisition of Intouch Group, one of the Kansas City region's most successful entrepreneurial ventures over the past generation, has been completed, the Overland Park company and its new parent, Chicago-based Eversana, have announced. The deal, for a reported $950…
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Just weeks after staving off the surge of pandemic-driven admissions that began in the summer, area hospital officials are again experiencing the systematic stress of soaring patient counts as the COVID-19 fall surge continues. The University of Kansas Hospital, the…
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The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research will soon announce successful development of a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, according to a report from DefenseOne.com. That protection, it said, extends even to the latest COVID…
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Block Real Estate Services has kickstarted construction on a distribution facility for countertop and flooring supplier MS International with a groundbreaking ceremony this month. The planned 200,800 square-foot building within the industrial park will serve as warehouse and office space…
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