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.
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Business
Jobs, wages, openings and closures — the numbers and the people behind the Kansas City economy.
Twenty-two restaurants opened in the metro this autumn. Nine closed.
Openings are up. Closures are up too. Both numbers are telling the truth.
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.
Kansas City startups raised $74 million in the third quarter
Three deals account for 81 percent of the quarter. That is not a healthy distribution.
The Northland is absorbing warehouse space faster than it can build it
Vacancy at 3.1 percent is not a healthy market. It is a market that is out of room.
Olathe issued more small-business permits this year than any year on record
Trades businesses are the fastest-growing category, and most of them do not have a website.
The city market closes its best season on record, with 41 new vendors
Forty-one new vendors, a median customer age eight years younger, and one very long queue for tomatoes.