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.
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construction
6 stories tagged “construction” in the Kansas City News archive.
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.
Housing trust fund breaks ground on 312 units across four sites
Four sites, four developers, one financing structure that took three years to get right.
Overland Park adopts design guidelines for its downtown core
The guidelines are voluntary for existing buildings and binding for anything filed after January.
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.
UMKC moves its engineering school downtown, and the reason is internships
The pitch is not prestige. It is that 71 percent of engineering graduates take a job within four miles of where they studied.