Tag: Electric Park

J. Rieger & Co. Electric Park rendering, GastingerWalker&

J. Rieger plans to relight ‘Electric Park’ in the East Bottoms, sling boozy snow-cones, cocktail floats

By Tommy Felts / July 27, 2021

A new 11,000-square-foot outdoor space is set to open this fall at J. Rieger & Co., the historic East Bottoms-based distillery, with an homage to one of Kansas City’s brightest but nearly forgotten eras. The Electric Park Garden Bar — featuring a completely open-air patio bar and an adjoining atrium that will serve as an…

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Walt Disney, 1922, Laugh-O-gram Studios in Kansas City

Historians, Mickey enthusiasts open the vault on plans for Walt Disney’s former KC studio

By Tommy Felts / December 4, 2020

A dream for local historians, restoration efforts at the Troost office building once occupied by Walt Disney are finally coming true, champions of the project teased Thursday. Within the walls of the formerly crumbling brick structure at 31st and Troost: neglected stories of Disney’s inspiration and impact — along with plans to reanimate the space with…

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