02/11/2012 - Beyond a shot and a beer for friendly drinks in K.C.
What do you mean, you haven't been to Kansas City? Haven't you heard that it's one of the next great cocktail cities?
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01/23/2012 - Nations Title Offers a Powerful Tool for Real Estate Agents
Nations Title Agency is excited to unveil its latest amazing service: Single Property Websites. This tool will create a website for one property, allowing real estate agents to fully promote each of their listings and to get new listings. This also includes multiple social networking platforms, specialized text messaging, and a variety of sharing capabilities.Prairie Village, Kansas (PRWEB ...
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02/08/2012 - Ross Dress for Less coming to Independence
One of the nation’s largest off-price department store chains is entering the Kansas City market with a new Independence store. Ross Dress for Less plans to open a 40,000-square-foot store in Independence Commons at 19000 E. 39th St., across from Independence Center.
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02/07/2012 - New effort to find empty school buyers
Neighborhoods do not want to see dozens of Kansas City public schools to sit empty for very long.
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02/07/2012 - Kansas' Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 17th Annual National Awards Program
Saajan Bhakta, 17, of Wichita and Grace Schram, 13, of Leawood today were named Kansas' top two youth volunteers for 2012 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
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02/06/2012 - 5 Top Cities for Real Estate Investors in 2012
BOSTON (MainStreet) -- Real estate investors might want to take a page from Dorothy and Toto's playbook in the The Wizard of Oz and set their sights on getting to Kansas. That's because the Sunflower State hosts three of the top five cities on HousingPredictor.com's Best Investor Markets for 2012 study -- all thanks to high produce prices making the area's economy as sweet as its corn. ...
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02/04/2012 - Neighborhood groups asked to help rebuild KC’s ‘urban forest’
As Kansas City’s official forester, part of the Department of Parks and Recreation, Kevin Lapointe knows that slowly, gradually, perhaps imperceptibly to most people, the public trees in Kansas City — those along streets and boulevards, those that shade the sidewalks in front of our homes — are disappearing.
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02/02/2012 - Kansas City Developer Pleads Guilty to Improperly Handling Citadel Plaza Asbestos
A Kansas City, Mo., developer pleaded guilty in federal court to improperly removing and disposing of asbestos-containing materials in connection with work at The Citadel Plaza Redevelopment Site.
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01/31/2012 - Remember When: A Community Review of Tonganoxie
A Kansas City-based real estate company is seeking the city's support for a housing project for people 55 and older.
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01/30/2012 - Many in KC area are turning to apartment living
Richard Penney, a 37-year-old biotech consultant who moved here from Nashville, Tenn., a year ago, is renting the good life at Briarcliff City Apartments in the Northland. He is among the thousands of people who are choosing apartments these days in Kansas City.
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01/30/2012 - Lockton Extends Square Footage and Expands Lease at Highwoods Properties Valencia Place Office Tower
KANSAS CITY, MO-- - Highwoods Properties, Inc. and Lockton, the world's largest privately held insurance broker, today announced that Lockton has renewed its lease for 171,000 square feet at Valencia Place ...
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01/27/2012 - Support urged for the arts in KC
Kansas City will live long and prosper if it continues to support its vibrant arts community.
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01/26/2012 - No tenants yet for Discovery Ridge Research Park building
COLUMBIA — Seven months after plans were announced, no clients have stepped forward to occupy a proposed building at MU's Discovery Ridge Research Park designed to attract technology oriented businesses. CarrBaierCrandall Real Estate Group in Kansas City revealed plans in June for the first of a three-phase project to develop what the Discovery Ridge website describes as a "dramatic 80,000 ...
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01/26/2012 - CoSentry Selects the Kansas City Area for New $32M Data Center
LENEXA, Kan., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology service provider CoSentry will build a new $31.6 million data center in Lenexa, Kan., part of the Greater Kansas City area , creating more than 60 ...
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01/18/2012 - Why KCK will have the best real estate market in the country this year
Even without the coming of Google Fiber, it turns out that now might be the perfect time to move to Kansas City, Kansas. Housingpredictor.com has determined that KCK will have the country's best housing market in 2012, expecting home prices to appreciate by 5.8 percent.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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01/16/2012 - Missouri casinos prepare for new cross-border battle
When the Sam’s Town Casino opened in September 1995, there was concern that the Kansas City market couldn’t support three gambling boats.
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01/09/2012 - The 'post-apocalyptic' condo that can withstand a nuclear attack
Terrorism, asteroids, Mayan prophesies — are disasters reason enough to move into an abandoned nuclear missile silo in Kansas?
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01/09/2012 - For sale: condos built in Kansas missile silos
One of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's pet projects has been keeping rural communities alive by using tax breaks to repopulate areas that are losing residents. The CBS Evening News reported Friday that one real-estate developer is doing his bit to ensure that people moving out to the sticks will have a nifty place to live.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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01/09/2012 - Seven to be cited by Arts Council
Six organizations and an individual will be honored at this year’s ArtsKC awards luncheon, sponsored by the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City.
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01/09/2012 - UMKC Launches Feasibility Study for Possible Arts Campus
The University of Missouri-Kansas City is studying the feasibility of a downtown arts campus. The school says it has hired one real estate business and two architecture firms.
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01/08/2012 - UMKC studies feasibility of downtown arts campus
KANSAS CITY (AP) — The University of Missouri-Kansas City has hired a real estate business and two architecture firms to study the feasibility of a downtown arts campus.
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12/27/2011 - Kan. Schools Prepare For Retirements, Shortages
School administrators across Kansas say they expect a mass exodus of teachers to retire after the economy gets better, raising concerns that there won't be enough new teachers to take the veterans' place.
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12/27/2011 - Kansas Schools Prepare For Retirements, Shortages
School administrators across Kansas say they expect a mass exodus of teachers to retire after the economy gets better, raising concerns that there won't be enough new teachers to take the veterans' place.
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12/15/2011 - A Firebrand Media Publication
My father was one of seven kids from Kansas. During the Great Depression, he got married and the next day took the freights West. There he eventually joined the Coast Guard and at the end of WW II ended up in Newport Beach.
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12/13/2011 - Spirited Traveller: Kansas City next big league cocktail town
NEW YORK (Reuters) - What do mean, you haven't been to Kansas City? Haven't you heard that it's one of the next great cocktail cities? It's okay; this New York cocktail snob didn't believe it either at first. Yet here in Missouri there exists a broad range of bartending excellence, delivered sans attitude. "The drinking culture here is relatively laid back," says Ryan Maybee, owner of craft bar ...
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12/12/2011 - Area banks hold more deposits but make fewer loans
Bankers and borrowers don’t see eye to eye on loans. Each points at the other to explain a continuing decline in the amount of lending among Kansas City area banks. They’re both right. Reluctant lenders and hesitant borrowers have contributed to a 7.4 percent drop in the amount of loans at area banks in the last year.
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12/10/2011 - What’s the matter with Kansas?
Osawatomie, Kansas, holds a special place in the history of this country — and I say that not only because an exceptionally congenial American, my mother, was born there. This tiny city of 4,400 proudly associates itself with freedom. It was founded by anti-slavery activists who campaigned for the Kansas...
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12/07/2011 - KC-based National Beef sells ownership stake for nearly $900 million
Leucadia National Corp. agreed to pay $867.9 million for a 79 percent ownership stake in Kansas City-based National Beef Packing Co., one of the largest beef processing companies in the United States.
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12/06/2011 - The sale of Kansas City International Raceway puts the brakes on drag racing
It's the end of racing at KCIR. by Ben Palosaari Kansas City International Raceway sits empty under an exhaust-gray sky on a blustery late-November afternoon. No spectators fill the grandstands.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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12/06/2011 - Romney Becomes Latest GOP Candidate to Decline Trump's Debate Invite
Donald Trump may have mastered the art of the real-estate deal, but when it comes to debates, he’s still an apprentice.From National Journal: VIDEO Obama's Oops: President Confuses Texas and Kansas ANALYSISWhat the Unemployment Drop Really Means SPACE Planet Found that Might Sustain Life
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12/05/2011 - KC mayor is taking strong role in creating bolder vision for city
Sly James may not have been elected to a strong-mayor form of government in Kansas City, but he’s behaving like a strong mayor, and that’s a good thing in a city hungry for positive leadership.
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11/28/2011 - Steelers' Big Ben not worried about offense
The offense's body of work in an escape at Kansas City included five holding penalties, a single first down in the fourth quarter and just 290 yards of total offense.
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11/22/2011 - Bank of Blue Valley chief named Kansas Citian of Year
Robert D. Regnier, honored in 2004 as Johnson Countian of the Year, on Tuesday night added “Kansas Citian of the Year” to a long list of civic credentials. Regnier, who heads Blue Valley Ban Corp and the Bank of Blue Valley, earned the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s highest honor at the organization’s 124th annual meeting.
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11/21/2011 - Statehouse Live: Brownback appoints new arts commissioner to replace one who resigned in protest
Gov. Sam Brownback has appointed Connie McLean of Wichita to the Kansas Arts Commission to replace Lawrence resident Grant Glenn, who resigned because of Brownback’s arts funding veto.
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11/17/2011 - Council signs off on $15 million settlement for Citadel Plaza
Trying to make the best of a development debacle, the Kansas City Council voted unanimously Thursday to pay $15 million to settle lawsuits on the failed Citadel Plaza.
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11/16/2011 - Analysis: Kansas will take 3 years to recover jobs
By GEORGE DIEPENBROCK, The Lawrence Journal-World It will take Kansas three more years to fully recover the jobs lost in the Great Recession that started in 2008, according to a recent national economic analysis. “It’s a very slow-moving economy right now,” said Bob Tomarelli, an economist at Massachusetts-based IHS Global Insight, which conducted the state-by-state study. He said the projected ...
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11/16/2011 - Jeb Bush to be Keynote Speaker at Chamber gathering
Jeb Bush, former Florida Governor and real estate entrepreneur, will be the keynote speaker at the Kansas Chamber's Annual Dinner on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 in Topeka.
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11/02/2011 - U.S. wants to sell part of sprawling Bannister complex
In what will be one of the biggest and most challenging real estate transactions in Kansas City history, the National Nuclear Security Administration is seeking a buyer for the 3 million-square-foot section of the Bannister Federal Complex where non-nuclear parts for the nation’s atomic arsenal have been manufactured since the dawn of the Cold War.
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10/31/2011 - Only Half of Leading Economics Bloggers Expect Employment Growth in the Next Three Years
KANSAS CITY, MO-- - Using words like "uncertain," "fragile" and "weak," 96 percent of top economics bloggers now share a gloomy outlook on the U.S. economy. According to a ...
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10/29/2011 - Kansas: Dropping Home Values Raise Issues for Local Governments
Kansas community governments and the taxpayers who support them are headed for a financial jolt, some recent trends in home sales statewide suggest.
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10/28/2011 - NEA delivers bad news to Kan. Arts Commission
Kansas has been told again by the National Endowment for the Arts that it's not eligible for federal funds, prompting the state Arts Commission's chairwoman to declare that the group will move forward with a "truly Kansas" plan for supporting arts programs with private money.
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10/28/2011 - Kan. arts fundraiser revived after being dropped
New Kansas Arts Commission members plan to revive a project to raise private dollars for its programs only months after the agency dropped it amid a budget dispute with Gov. Sam Brownback that made Kansas the only state in the nation to eliminate its arts funding.
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10/27/2011 - AP: Kansas banks lending lowest in years
WICHITA (AP) — The amount of money loaned by Kansas banks for new buildings and business operations in the first half of 2011 is the lower than at any time in the past five years, but bankers say it's not because they are tightening credit.
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10/27/2011 - Kansas Banks' Lending Lowest In 5 Years
In a report prepared this week for The Wichita Eagle, the Federal Reserve said Kansas banks made $9.5 billion in commercial real estate loans in the first half of 2011.
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10/26/2011 - Dalke receives realtor award
At the annual state realtors convention last week, Delores Dalke of the Real Estate Center in Hillsboro received the Kansas Association of Realtors Distinguished Service Award.
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10/27/2011 - Business lending is down, but reason is complicated
Kansas banks have loaned less money for new buildings and business operations than at any time in th
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10/25/2011 - Why Todd Haley Deserves Another Season at Helm of Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley started Week 3 interviewing real estate agents—or at least he should have. Chiefs fans had just witnessed back-to-back craptastic games against Buffalo and Detroit . Eric Berry, Jamaal Charles and Tony Moeaki landed on the All-ACL Injured Reserve Squad. The 2011 season arrived in the emergency room without a pulse. Dead on arrival. Flatlined. Worm food ...
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10/24/2011 - Councilmen hear small business owners
Forget city hall. One Kansas City council committee is taking its act on the road and meeting in restaurants and store fronts. Members believe it is key to boosting the local economy.
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10/21/2011 - Kansas high court disbars Hutch attorney
The Kansas Supreme Court stripped Hutchinson attorney David Holmes of his license to practice law on ...
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10/20/2011 - Startup Companies Leading Transition to Online Business Activities, According to Kauffman Report
KANSAS CITY, MO-- - The Internet's profound effect on how U.S. businesses operate is even more pronounced among young companies, according to a research report released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman ...
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