Tag: Troost

Ruby Jean's YMCA Kitchen & Juicery

Boosted by Troost, Ruby Jean’s pressing ahead with YMCA, grocery, Atlanta deals

By Tommy Felts / June 23, 2018

It’s Troost location will be a model for Ruby Jean’s expansion, said Chris Goode, but the juicery’s growth won’t be limited to standalone, brick-and-mortar sites. “Ideally, the way we truly scale is our wholesale model,” said Goode, founder of the health and fitness-focused Kansas City-born business. “I’m in talks right now, trying to get it…

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STEAM Studio

New STEAM Studio ‘pop-up’ lab planned for Rockhurst library along Troost

By Tommy Felts / May 3, 2018

With its quiet atmosphere and stacks of source materials, the bottom floor of the Greenlease Library at Rockhurst University is a great place to study or do research. But it doesn’t necessarily strike one as a state-of-the-art design thinking and learning lab — yet. Starting this summer, that section of the university’s library will be…

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Operation Breakthrough expansion plans

Operation Breakthrough expansion helps give every child a chance, Mayor Sly James says

By Tommy Felts / February 22, 2018

It’s the beginning of a new chapter for Operation Breakthrough, said Kansas City Mayor Sly James. The mayor joined a packed crowd of supporters on an icy Thursday morning to share the Kansas City-based organization’s formal announcement of its $17 million capital campaign and expansion project. The effort — dubbed “Big Dreams, Bright Futures” —…

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Ami Freeberg, Longfellow Farm

Longfellow Farm coworking the soil amid KC’s urban food desert

By Tommy Felts / November 15, 2017

In a city ripe with coworking office spaces, there’s a hunger for similar environments outdoors, Ami Freeberg said. As with maintaining individual workplaces, traditional urban farming also can be isolating and expensive, the Longfellow Farm manager said. By working together, however, the collaborative process allows for shared resources, greater human expertise and, of course, more…

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Chris Goode, Ruby Jean's Kitchen & Juicery

Ruby Jean’s juices unity, entrepreneurism with Troost opening (Photos)

By Tommy Felts / November 11, 2017

Chris Goode is helping change what Troost Avenue means to Kansas City, pastor Stanley Archie said Saturday morning at the grand opening of Ruby Jean’s Kitchen & Juicery. Troost has been a place of division, he said, noting years of racial segregation along the corridor where those with a “permanent tan” weren’t welcome west of…

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