Nearby Neighborhoods Big Part of ‘Imagine Downtown KC’
By Kevin Collison
The Imagine Downtown KC project launched by the Downtown Council last summer is deep into reimagining a new relationship between downtown as...
Chaotic Downtown Stunt-Driving Part of Long, Reckless Season
By Kevin Collison
A raucous stunt-driving session that closed one of downtown's most visible intersections over the weekend is the latest outrage in what's been...
New Strategy Hopes to Reanimate Disney Laugh-O-Gram Building
By Kevin Collison
Backers of the effort to reanimate the historic Laugh-O-Gram building where Walt Disney got his start a century ago believe they finally...
Downtown Council Drops Homeless Camp Idea, Welcomes Donations to Community Center
By Kevin Collison
The Downtown Council's efforts to help the homeless population got some good news this Thanksgiving week, tempering the collapse of its proposal...
Affordable Apartment Proposal Would Bring More Bark to Berkley
By Kevin Collison
The organization behind The Grooming Project, a non-profit that provides career training in dog grooming for impoverished single parents, wants to open...
Veterans Day Event at WWI Museum Includes Skydivers and KC Symphony
The Veterans Day celebration at the National World I Museum and Memorial starts soaring at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday when a parachute team featuring veterans...
Downtown Council Hopes to Open Homeless Camp Before Winter
By Kevin Collison
With the homeless population swollen by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Downtown Council is looking to Lawrence for an idea to help shelter...
Penn Valley Campus Adding Engineering Technology Building
The engineering technology program at Metropolitan Community College is being relocated to the school's Penn Valley campus near downtown and will be housed in...
New Voice for Growing Downtown Residential Community
By Kevin Collison
If the residents of greater downtown could elect their own mayor, Jared Campbell would likely be a top candidate.
Campbell moved to Quality...
Community Christian Sparks Campaign to Rekindle ‘Steeple of Light’
By Kevin Collison
Community Christian Church has been baptized officially as a historic building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a designation that's sparking a fundraising...
