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Rock Island Bridge delays opening; over-the-river entertainment hub set to debut spring 2025
The opening of a “destination landmark bridge” — set to reshape Kansas City’s West Bottoms amid an aggressive district-wide redevelopment boom — is now expected to be pushed back to spring 2025 as leaders of the Rock Island Bridge project refine plans for its public debut. “To ensure everything is in place and working at…
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When the in-the-works Rock Island Bridge opens in 2024, the hulking infrastructure renewal project will become Kansas City’s — and America’s — first “destination landmark bridge,” said Mike Zeller. And the effort pointedly capitalizes on one of the metro’s most overlooked assets: its rivers. “We’re maybe the biggest river town in America that hasn’t really…
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