Regional News
The Robert W. Plaster Foundation, based in Lebanon, Mo., has donated at least $1 million to help Park University build a new School of Business. In a news release this morning, the university announced the seven-figure donation for the 20,500-square-foot…
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It’s a phrase fraught with possibilities for exaggeration, but Wayne Carter believes that it reflects what’s happening across the landscape of life-sciences growth in the Kansas City region: exponential growth. Carter is the CEO of the Kansas City Area Life Sciences…
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Park University, which has expanded nationwide from its Parkville base by developing a national network of satellite campuses, is adding one more--only this time, it won't have to go very far from home. Officials this morning announced that Park's 41st…
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The Wonderscope Children’s Museum, based in Shawnee, kicked off a capital campaign this morning to finance a $12 million facility in the Red Bridge Shopping Center, the south Kansas City retail center recently redeveloped by LANE4 Property Group. The Wonderscope…
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After two years under the guidance of the KU Medical Center's Doug Girod and former HNTB executive Scott Smith, the KC Rising Steering Committee announced this morning that three new co-chairs would assume duties on March 1: John Murphy, past…
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The Kansas City Council has approved an ordinance that will allow a local development company, Foutch Brothers, to buy Kemper Arena for a dollar and transform it into Mosaic Life Care Arena, a two-tiered youth sports facility. The council's vote…
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A new report from the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center ranks Missouri No.7 nationally in the diversity of its economy, based on a set of metrics from 2015, the most recent year available. In a news release announcing the…
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Score one more for the Kansas City region’s national appeal as a center for logistics: The Kansas Department of Commerce announced this morning that Spectrum Brands Hardware and Home Improvement would merge the operations from distribution facilities in California and…
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Sprint Corp. announced this morning that its third-quarter net operating revenues for 2016 hit $8.5 billion, up more than 5 percent from the same period in FY 2015. It was the second consecutive quarter of net operating growth for…
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The Heart of a Nation, Beating Proudly Meet 50 Missourians whose achievements set them apart. What makes the Show-Me State the centerpiece of America? We can give you 350 reasons why Missouri is both a state of mind and a…
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