Regional
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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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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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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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 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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It's been a good year for home sales in Kansas City, but relative to the rest of the Top 100 markets in the U.S., the Kansas City region was nowhere near the hottest of housing markets. That could change quickly,…
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With Kansas City already targeted as home for the world’s largest data-center operations, another player is suiting up to get into that game: An operating unit of Google has added more than 235 acres to a nearly 80-acre plot it…
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North Kansas City-based Cerner Corporation will soon be taken over by Austin-based software giant Oracle, according to a Dec. 20 news release. The $28.3 billion acquisition is anticipated to complete before the end of 2022 and will become Oracle’s largest…
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