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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Twenty-two restaurants opened in the metro this autumn. Nine closed.
Openings are up. Closures are up too. Both numbers are telling the truth.
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.
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.
A metro food bank doubles its cold storage and cuts a distribution step
The old constraint was not supply. It was that fresh food spoils faster than a truck can move it.
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.