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Nov. 1, 2015, is a very big day in Kansas City’s sports history. For the Kansas City Royals, it’s one of the two most important dates ever: The day they won their second World Series, completing a five-game rout of…
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Posted December 9, 2025 Creative Planning has acquired another RIA, this time in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with more than $900 million in assets under management. Overland Park-based Creative Planning announced the acquisition of Marshall Financial Group. The acquisition adds 19 employees…
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Law firm executive Lisa Krigsten takes the reins of the Civic Council with twin goals of promoting equity and engagement of the business community. She won’t be directing day-to-day functions of the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, but as…
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Posted December 9, 2025 The Unified Government of Wyandotte County & Kansas City approved a reworked version of a $155 million STAR bond for the American Royal development near Kansas Speedway. The UG held its planning & zoning meeting on…
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As grounded a university as any in America, even Purdue, famously dubbed in the late ‘60s “a hotbed of student rest,” has not had a right-of-center professor in a liberal-arts department since the days of Orville Redenbacher … and maybe…
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Posted December 4, 2025 Overland Park-based Westlake Ace Hardware announced it has opened its first store location in Dallas, Oregon. Westlake Ace Hardware purchased a 22,000 square foot store and will remodel more than 18,000 square feet of the building…
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Posted December 3, 2025 Overland Park-based Creative Planning has acquired Burt Wealth Advisors, adding $1 billion in assets under management for the wealth management company. Burt Wealth is an RIA based in North Bethesda, Maryland. Since 1985, the company has…
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Posted December 3, 2025 Cobalt MedPlans, a business of Cobalt Health Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, has been sold to a healthcare solutions provider. MDI NetworX, a healthcare BPO and technology-enabled…
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Posted December 2, 2025 Updated December 5, 2025, at 9:44 a.m. The Olathe City Council has received an annexation application for around 80 acres of land that would become an industrial and logistics business park. The application was submitted by…
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Posted December 2, 2025 Merck Animal Health will need to adjust its site plans for an $985 million expansion of its biologics facility in De Soto. During the City of De Soto Planning Commission meeting in November, city planners voted…
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