Jackson County
Frontier Wealth Management, a Kansas City-based investment advisory firm, has jumped into the St. Louis market. In a news release this afternoon, Frontier announced the acquisition of AHM Asset Management, saying the St. Louis firm meshed with its own client-service…
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Euronet Worldwide, the global electronic-payments processor based in Leawood, has announced plans to raise as much as $392 million in through an offering of convertible senior notes. The offering is expected to close on Wednesday, with Band of America Merrill…
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If you’re looking for a seat to Tuesday’s gathering of business leaders, educators and work-force experts on Tuesday morning at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, you’re in luck: They’re still available. The fifth annual Greater KC Economic and Workforce Summit…
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City planners in Overland Park will have scheduled a Nov. 10 review for a request by EPC Real Estate Group to build 200 luxury apartments and a modest amount of retail space near the city’s Downtown. The development group, less…
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Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former President George W. Bush, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2014 American Business Women's Association's National Women's Leadership Conference, which convenes Thursday at the Overland Park Convention Center. The former first daughter is now…
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Some charitable donations light a philanthropic spark. Jim and Virginia Stowers have poured more than 95 percent of their $2 billion net worth into the Stowers Institute for Medical Research since its creation in 1994, igniting not a spark but…
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The movers and shakers in Kansas City made an emphasis on the arts part of the city’s culture from its earliest days, and those who followed their footsteps have risen to the challenge. As a result, this region today enjoys…
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Two highly regarded state university systems. Three community college systems highly responsive to work-force needs. Dozens of high-performing private colleges and public school districts. Stellar private K–12 education. All in one metropolitan area. That math works to the advantage of…
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Just like Rodgers and Hammerstein’s song about June in Carousel, logistics in Kansas City is busting out all over. And 2013 stands as a watershed year for it, thanks to the formal opening of Logistics Park Kansas City. This master-planned…
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No community aspires to be slightly below average, with perhaps one notable exception: Cost of living. And that’s where the numbers favor the Kansas City region, relative to many other large metropolitan areas in the United States. Comparatively speaking, we’re…
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