Missouri
The Kansas City Zoo is planning to add a $75 million saltwater aquarium, according to a resolution sponsored by Kansas City Councilmember Alissia Canady and Councilmember Kevin McManus. To fund the project, the councilmembers have proposed the City of Kansas City…
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Burns & McDonnell is expanding its headquarters to make room for more jobs. The company announced this week that it would break ground on a $42 million expansion (which includes a 550-stall parking garage and 142,000 square-foot office building) to…
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Mexico is Kansas City’s second-largest export market after Canada, which means the stakes are high for our city as with the Trump administration's efforts to revise the North American Free Trade Act. With Kansas City companies exporting primarily automobile parts,…
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson headlined a list of dignitaries who gathered Friday for the ribbon-cutting of a new CVS retail distribution center, which will add more than 360 jobs to the Kansas City area. The facility, covering 760,000 square feet,…
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AN ENTIRE URBAN COMMUNITY IS BEING RECREATED RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. Say what you will about the Keynesian power of public dollars to jump-start business activity, and perhaps even create new business sectors, but what’s happening in Kansas City…
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Circle this date on your calendar: Dec. 31, 2031. What’s special about that particular New Year’s Eve? It’s the date on which the very last members of the Baby Boom generation, born just before the clock ran out on 1964,…
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Today, China will impose an additional $16 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports. This comes in response to the Trump administration's move to impose $16 billion in tariffs against Chinese imports. With this increase in tariffs, the price of…
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The change at Children’s Mercy Kansas City was coming; turns out, it’s arriving just a bit ahead of schedule. The region’s premier pediatric hospital announced this week that CEO Rand O’Donnell’s planned retirement departure would take effect after next week.…
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McCownGordon Construction, one of the region's biggest general contractors, has announced a series of moves in its management ranks to set the table for future growth. Four of the promotions announced last week come from within current management ranks, the…
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Animal-health products company TechAccel, which launched in Kansas in 2015, has announced that it will join forces with Reliance Animal Health Partners to form Covenant Animal Health Partners, a company that will focus exclusively on bringing animal health innovations to…
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