Reasons to Choose


Prime Location

GETTING TO KNOW KANSAS CITY MEANS COVERING A LOT OF GROUND. PRODUCTIVE GROUND.  So you want to know about Kansas City, do you? Well, for starters, you need to know that there are two of them: The bigger one is… more

Transportation and Infrastructure

WHEN YOU'RE IN KANSAS CITY, IF YOU'RE NOT HOME, YOU'RE NOT FAR FROM IT. AND LOGISTICS COMPANIES ARE BUILDING ON THAT POTENTIAL.  For years, Kansas City’s well-known interstate access came through its connections to I-35, I-70 and I-29, all vital… more

Real Estate Values

A friend of this publication, who brought his family to Kansas City from the New York City area, tells of a visitor whose mother told her to “make sure they aren’t living with cows,” so worried was she about her… more

Transportation and Infrastructure

You wouldn’t think it to look at KC on a map of the country, but yes, Kansas City is a port city. The two rivers that meet here, the waterways that gave rise to this place by virtue of being… more

Healthcare and Community Services

More than 850 miles separate Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver from Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, endpoints that are significant because each falls on the prestigious list of Becker’s Hospital Review’s 100 Great Hospitals in America. Running right through… more

Education

Just run the checklist: Two state university systems, including major research universities.  Check. A major urban university with schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and dentistry.  Check. Two other schools of medicine—one public, one private—representing the largest such organizations in their… more

Cost of Living

When you’re the 30th-largest metropolitan population in the country, you can look to the other 29 markets ahead of you and wonder what they have that, perhaps, you might wish you had, as well. In some locales, it’s a mountain… more