Kansas

Blue KC Announce Affiliation Agreement With Highmark Inc.

Posted December 17, 2025 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced plans to affiliate with Highmark Inc., a not-for-profit health insurer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This affiliation is a significant step toward Blue KC’s long-term growth and expanding… more

Sporting KC Enters New Partnership with Saint Luke’s, Children’s Mercy Deal Ends

Posted December 17, 2025 Saint Luke’s will become the new official health care provider and official team care provider of Sporting KC for the 2026 Major League Soccer season. The 10-year partnership between Sporting KC and Children’s Mercy will come… more

Precision Aerospace & Defense to Become Public Company Following Acquisition

Posted December 11, 2025 Overland Park-based Precision Aerospace & Defense Group, Inc., announced it will enter into a merger with FACT II Acquisition Corp, with the combined company emerging as a publicly traded business. Upon closing of the proposed business… more

Children’s Mercy Adding New Medical Office to Overland Park Campus

Posted December 10, 2025 Overland Park planning commissioners approved the final development plan for an expansion project at the Children’s Mercy Overland Park campus. The final development plans detail a 116,767 square-foot addition to the north side of the campus.… more

Creative Planning Acquires Marshall Financial Group, $900M AUM

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… more

UG and American Royal Make New Agreement $375M Campus

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… more

Take One For The Team

I’m waking up on day three at North Kansas City Hospital with several broken ribs and a fractured right transverse process of my first lumber vertebra. In a rush Friday morning during the rain, I slipped and fell down a… more

Westlake Ace Hardware to Open First Store in Oregon

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… more

Who Really Failed the Corporate Diversity Challenge?

You can get a nuanced argument about this from almost any cultural anthropologist, economist or sociologist, but in general, the history of capitalism—the American stripe, and the various versions practiced around the world—can’t be written without highlighting major tipping points.… more

Swimming Through the Mud

I have to hand it to the companies that earned their place on this issue’s 36th annual Corporate Report 100 ranking. If we were to ever find ourselves in a street fight, I’d want these folks on our side. They’re… more