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What’s On KC- Conservatory Connections
- Freedom Sisters with APC
- Stitches Exhibit
- UMKC Theatre and KCAT present Billy Bishop Goes to War
- 10th Annual Paul D. Bartlett Lecture
- Docent Training Classes
- Know your status? Free HIV/STI Testing
- Stitches Exhibit
- Wind Ensemble and 11 O'Clock Jazz Band
- UMKC Theatre and KCAT present Billy Bishop Goes to War
Category Archives: Downtown
Streetcar advances with approval of special taxing district
Today the City Council approved a plan to pay for the Downtown Streetcar with a mix of taxes on sales, property, and parking lots adjacent to its route along Main Street. Downtown residents will likely vote in April to approve … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Transportation
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Urban Photo Safari coming up this weekend
Shutterbugs and Flickr devotees, mark your calendars for the annual Urban Photo Safari coming up this weekend. Photographers and social media types will converge on Mildred’s Coffeehouse in the Crossroads Arts District.
Posted in Arts/Entertainment, Downtown
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Crosstown Station evicted to make room for a church?
Back to Rockville reports that Crosstown Station may be losing it’s lease in September, and a church may be buying the building. The venue at 15th and McGee in the Crossroads Arts District has been a big part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts/Entertainment, Downtown
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KC is crumbling while preservationists go shopping
This week the Highwoods company released their latest design for the new Polsinelli Shughart law firm building on the Country Club Plaza, and despite the very context-sensitive design that conforms to the Plaza Urban Design Plan, local preservationists continue their … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Downtown, East Side, Midtown/Plaza
Tagged colonn, Cosby, Country Club Plaza, Disney, Historic Kansas City Foundation, shir
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Are KC tax dollars being used to send conventions to Overland Park?
Today the Pitch has a brief piece on a convention that is moving from Kansas City to Overland Park, thanks to the Convention and Visitors Association. While the CVA promotes tourism and conventions across the entire metro area, the it … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Downtown, Suburbs
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Kansas targets another Missouri company, and its zoo animals
For all the billions invtested Downtown, the city has yet to see a significant ROI in terms of corporate recruitment and retention. AMC Theaters is the latest KC company being pursued by the State of Kansas with obscene taxpayer handout … Continue reading
Don’t mess with Walt Bodine’s chilli…
… or he’ll shoot you in the stomach.