Government

For one night only, KCI’s new terminal became the city’s premier event venue; Here’s how they pulled it off

By Tommy Felts / March 8, 2023

Transforming an airport terminal into a high-profile, elegant celebration and then back to an airport terminal within 48 hours is no easy feat, Whitney Butler said, but the women-led PlatinumXP team was up for the challenge. “We were creating within a venue that will never be able to be used as an event venue again.…

Read More >

Small town KS just blocked its new crypto mining neighbor: Why this could be just the start of a rural-tech clash

By Tommy Felts / March 6, 2023

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Kansas City PBS/Flatland, a member of the KC Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, The Kansas City Beacon, and Missouri Business Alert. Click here to read the original story. [divide] MCLOUTH, Kansas — Parked cars lined Lucy Street in the center of a normally…

Read More >

$2M in federal funds secured for Disney’s forgotten ‘cradle of Hollywood animation’ in KC

By Tommy Felts / February 28, 2023

A decades-long effort to redevelop Walt Disney’s original Laugh-O-gram animation studios at 31st and Forest, along the Troost corridor, will receive $2 million in federal funding, as officially announced last week by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II. The influx of funding should generate “momentum” to raise the remaining money needed to complete the project, said Gary…

Read More >

KC’s Westside neighborhood awarded $1M from feds to reconnect community split by I-35

By Tommy Felts / February 28, 2023

A newly announced $1 million grant is expected to help reestablish a Kansas City neighborhood that was cut off from itself and opportunity thanks to past transportation infrastructure decisions — part of a $1 billion plan to right what many call a decades-long wrong largely perpetrated against historic communities of color. In a first round…

Read More >

New technology preserves speed, convenience KC air travelers have come to expect (in unexpected ways)

By Tommy Felts / February 21, 2023

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Kansas City PBS/Flatland, a member of the KC Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, The Kansas City Beacon, and Missouri Business Alert. Click here to read the original story. [divide] You land at Kansas City International Airport a half hour early. Until now…

Read More >
[adinserter block="4"]