Overland Park
The Johnson County Community College Foundation announced today that it had received a $10 million lead gift from the Sunderland Foundation to jump-start the largest campus transformation project in the nearly 50-year history of the college. Dubbed The Sunderland Challenge,…
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Lawing Financial, No. 21 on Ingram's list of Top Area Wealth Management Firms last year, announced this morning that an employee group had purchased the firm from CEO Kerry Lawing and minority investors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.…
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The parent company of Bank Midwest announced today that it would acquire Lawrence-based Peoples Bank, boosting its status as the fourth-largest locally headquartered bank based on assets. If approved by regulators, it would push Bank Midwest's asset levels well above…
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Citing the growing demand for skilled web developers, the University of Kansas said this morning that it would launch a 24-week coding Boot Camp in June. In a news release annoucing the program, Vice Chancellor David Cook called it “ideal…
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Block & Company, Inc., Realtors announced today that it had purchased the former Kmart shopping center in the southeast quadrant of I-35 & Shawnee Mission Parkway. That 11.8-acre property will take on new life as a mixed-use development featuring retaurants…
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Overland Park-based Sprint today announced that it would commit to creating or bringing back to America 5,000 jobs by the end of its 2017 fiscal year. In a news release issued late this afternoon, the company said it expects those…
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The University of Kansas Hospital will break ground on a new $100 million facility in Overland Park on Wednesday afternoon, one that will add operating rooms and inpatient rooms, imaging operations and patient amenities. The expansion of the…
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Netsmart Technologies, one of the region's Top 100 private companies, based on revenues, has a new owner and an expanded mission: The Overland Park-based provider of IT products for behavioral health-care providers is being sold for $950 million to a…
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NAI LaSala-Sonnenberg and Lee & Associates Kansas City, a pair of commercial real estate agencies based in Overland Park, announced today that they had merged, effective Jan. 1, and will operate as NAI LaSala-Sonnenberg Heartland. In a news release announcing…
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On multiple levels, it was a milestone year. For the Kansas City region, 2015 goes into the history books as a year of change. A lot of it good, as when the Royals snagged the 2015 World Series title, and…
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