Tag: Brian Platt

KCMO secures $11.8M to expand city’s EV charging infrastructure, targeting underinvested neighborhoods  

By Tommy Felts / January 14, 2025

A freshly charged tranche of funding is expected to help power Kansas City’s efforts to install 256 new electric vehicle charging points across urban and suburban areas of the city, Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Tuesday. “This project will help cement Kansas City’s commitment to sustainable transportation and access to electric vehicle resources,” Lucas said. “A…

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How a $527M development is poised to transform KC’s last ‘Wild West’ neighborhood

By Tommy Felts / September 26, 2024

Editor’s note: The following story was published by KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR member station, and a fellow member of the KC Media Collective. Click here to read the original story or here to sign up for KCUR’s email newsletter. A New York developer plans to renovate several historic West Bottoms buildings into apartments and office space, in addition to new…

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Urban farmer’s composting operation gets in ‘deep trouble’ with city; why she’s thankful for the opportunity to cultivate change

By Tommy Felts / November 21, 2023

Being pioneers on the Kansas City urban farming scene can be a tough row to hoe, admitted Brooke Salvaggio noting the challenges she’s faced with Urbavore Farm and Compost Collective KC are just the latest season on an evolving agricultural landscape.  “More or less, we’re rebels,” explained Salvaggio, who along with her husband, Dan Heryer,…

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Former office space set to offer affordable downtown workforce housing as historic Midland renovation begins

By Tommy Felts / July 12, 2023

New life is set to pour into the historic former Midland office building as The Cordish Companies transform the space into 135 studio and one-bedroom apartments. “The Midland Lofts renovation is a major step in the direction of making living downtown more broadly accessible to the downtown workforce, and we believe that the Midland Lofts…

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KC council members set to rappel from Canary bar atop 10-story building for Fringe festival fundraiser 

By Tommy Felts / August 24, 2021

Nothing screams KC Fringe Festival quite like rappelling down a 10-story building in the heart of Midtown, said organizers of a weekend fundraiser to help bring professional arts advocates — laid off because of the pandemic — back to the payroll. “To me, this fundraiser really speaks to what the Fringe does — which is…

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