Inside KC’s SubTropolis: How Missouri businesses are looking below the surface for new opportunities

By Tommy Felts | July 10, 2024

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Missouri Business Alert, a member of the Kansas City Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, Kansas City PBS/Flatland, and The Kansas City Beacon. Click here to read the original story. [divide] Visitors driving into SubTropolis on a recent morning were immediately greeted by…

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Scoring Google’s $1B data center feels like Super Bowl overtime as KC keeps notching wins, officials say

By Tommy Felts | March 20, 2024

Kansas City is hitting it out of the ballpark, said Mike Parson, returning from the governor’s office to the region Wednesday for yet another major economic development announcement — this time, a billion-dollar Google data center coming in 2025. “Maybe I should say, ‘You’re hitting it out of the ballpark and scoring touchdowns,” Parson, R-Missouri, told…

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