Regional

Lenexa Lands Data Center

A national IT company based in Dallas has unveiled plans for building a 50,000-square-foot data center in Lenexa, its third facility in the Kansas City region. In a news release this morning issued by the Kansas City Area Development Council,… more

Pet Food Maker Picks Kansas City

Score one more for the Animal Health Corridor’s ability to attract key companies: C.J. Foods, a Nebraska-based maker of premium dry pet foods and treats, announced today that it would open an executive office in the Kansas City area. “After… more

UG Endorses Royal’s STAR-Bond Request

Wyandotte County’s Unified Government has signed off on a request for state approval of STAR bonds for the American Royal Association, which is planning to turn a 112-acre site in Kansas City, Kan., into a national center for agribusiness. The… more

KC Makes Its Pitch to Amazon

As of today, the Kansas City region's dreams of being home to a second headquarters for Amazon.com are in the hands of Jeff Bezos and his team in Seattle. In what is being described as the largest regional collaboration in… more

Hospital Receives $10 Million Donation

Cheryl Lockton Williams, widow of Lockton Companies founder Jack Lockton, has donated $10 million to support the new Cambridge Tower A at the University of Kansas Hospital. Announcement of that gift came this morning at the hospital near Midtown. Officials… more

Mariner Sells Tortoise Unit

Tortoise Investments, one of the region's largest wealth-management institutions and a subsidiary of Mariner Holdings, is being acquired by a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, Lovell Minnick Partners, and members of the Tortoise management team, the firm announced this morning. … more

KBP Foods Back in Acquisition Mode

Overland Park-based KBP Foods, which cracked the top 50 on Ingram's list of the region's 100 biggest private companies last year, is making a push for Top 30 status: The Yum! Brands franchisee has announced yet another acquisition for 2017,… more

KC Makes Cut for World Cup Consideration

If this involved NCAA basketball, we could claim to have made it to the Round of 32 in the Big Dance, but this is soccer--on a global scale. The FIFA World Cup United Bid Soccer Committee today announced that Kansas… more

J.D. Power Ranks KCI “About Average”

With all the talk about the need for a new "front door" for Kansas City--in the form of a single-terminal construct at KCI--and the countering claims that the airport's convenience factor vastly outweighs the need for change, J.D. Power release… more

Irish Conglomerate Buying Ash Grove

More than a century of Sunderland family ownership will come to an end when Dublin-based CRH plc acquires Ash Grove Cement Co., the Overland Park cement manufacturer announced late Wednesday. Ash Grove has entered into a definitive merger agreement with… more