The Mid-America Regional Council earlier this year released an economic development study and suggested strategy for the K-7 corridor. The 13-mile area stretches from the City of Leavenworth on the north to the Bonner Springs. K-7 began as a two-lane road that linked Kansas City with northeast Kansas cities; it became a four-lane highway in [...]
I was one of the persons who asked questions of candidates for the Kansas Legislature at a forum Wednesday night Oct. 17 at Kansas City, Kansas, Community College. Before the three-hour session started, I recalled the community effort that brought about the Performing Arts Center where the forum was held. [...]
By Marisa Gray Business West recently completed its 27th year. Joe and Katie Maderak founded Business West in 1985 so that area businesses could have a collective voice. That advocacy continues as Business West begins its 28th year. The State Avenue Corridor Planning Committee, a division of Business West, will holds its annual [...]
Business West’s major project for the past several months has been establishing a benefit district in the State Avenue and 78th Street corridor. Presently Business West members are contacting property owners in the corridor, asking them to sign a petition that would establish a community improvement district, or a cid for [...]
Kansas City, Kansas, Community College has many resources to help area businesses. This was the message members of the Kansas City, Kansas, Area Chamber of Commerce heard Friday, Sept. 7 at a luncheon in the Jewell Building. The college offers various opportunities through SEEN-- an acronym that stands for “Sustainable Enterprise [...]
I was recently downtown and noticed that construction workers are busy at the intersection of Seventh Street and Minnesota Avenue. They are preparing the streets for the new bus terminal for the Area Transportation Authority. The workers are removing some of the last elements of what was the Center City Mall. [...]
There is a new boss at the West Patrol Police Station. He is Maj. John Cosgrove, a veteran officer who has served in Kansas City, Kan., since 1984. Maj. Cosgrove, who lives with his wife Kerry and two daughters in the Piper community, said he is pleased with his new position. [...]
I was talking recently with a prominent community leader and he summed up the Google situation. “We don’t know what the answers are. We don’t even know what the questions are,” the leader said. More than 1,000 people gathered at noon Wednesday, March 30 in the Wyandotte High School [...]
About a year and one-half ago, I attended a news conference in the auditorium at Wyandotte High School for what was touted as a very major announcement. The content was a very closely guarded secret. I only could imagine that this announcement was akin to the second coming of [...]
There is a line out of the Paul Newman movie “Cool Hand Luke” that goes something like this: “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” That quote could be used to explain the lack of [...]