Tag: Westport High School

This $250M bid to revive a Midtown historic landmark adds living spaces to Westport school campus

By Tommy Felts / February 22, 2023

A newly announced development — the largest mixed-use project in Midtown — is expected to bring fresh activity to the vacant hallways of a historic Kansas City school, further anchoring community within a multi-building, street-spanning campus that already includes a Plexpod coworking and events venue. “Once home to students, athletes, and artists, the latest project…

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Readers’ Choice: Peek at Startland’s most-popular stories

By Tommy Felts / May 4, 2016

The votes are in — and they arrived via page views. And in case you didn’t know: Kansas City produces a ton of startup news. A year ago today, we published our very first digest, and it’s been a fantastically hectic ride ever since. As a startup ourselves, watching the ticker count on story page…

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Community igniting innovation at Westport Commons

By Tommy Felts / October 8, 2015

A school tells the story of a community. Hallways lined with neighborhood students. Lockers packed with books. Gymnasiums breeding athletic competition. Now imagine a vacant school — a place with rich community history that then goes unattended. The lights are turned off and the classrooms go silent. This is what happened with Westport Junior High…

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