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The Chiefs want $800 million in public money. Here is what it buys.
The renovation is real. The financing gap is also real, and it is the only part that will be negotiated.
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Why Kansas City small businesses keep landing on WordPress
The pitch for a proprietary builder is usually speed. The reason businesses leave one is usually a Tuesday afternoon when nobody could change the hours.
Kansas City metro adds 3,200 jobs in the third quarter
Two sectors added 4,100 jobs. Everything else lost 900. That is the whole story of the quarter.
One year into the new KCI terminal: shorter walks, longer queues
The good news is that Kansas City finally has an airport that works. The bad news is concentrated in one 40-minute window each morning.
Six library branches will open on Sundays for the first time
Sunday is the busiest day for the branches that already open. That is the entire argument.
Council passes a $2.4 billion budget with a narrow housing win
The housing amendment passed by one vote. The snow removal cut passed by nine.
Twenty-two restaurants opened in the metro this autumn. Nine closed.
Openings are up. Closures are up too. Both numbers are telling the truth.
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Technology · 3 min
Kansas City retailers are selling online later than their customers started buying
The sale is happening on a phone. The store was designed on a laptop. That gap is where the money goes.
Community · 2 min
KCPS enrolment rises for a second year, and the budget follows
Two years of growth does not undo fifteen years of decline, but it changes what the district can plan for.
Development · 2 min
Floodwall repairs begin on the north bank after a decade of deferral
The levee held in 2019. It held with less margin than anyone at the time knew.
Business · 2 min
Plaza retail vacancy falls below 8 percent for the first time since 2019
The recovery is real. It is also mostly service businesses moving into space that used to hold apparel.
Sports & Culture · 2 min
The Royals ballpark debate has a new number, and it changes the argument
The private share went up. The public share went up too. Both numbers are larger than the last version.
Development · 2 min
Olathe enters phase two of downtown renewal with 180 housing units
The first phase proved the demand. The second phase tests whether the street grid can absorb it.