Decades of revitalization efforts have dovetailed with the type of successes that can’t be planned in a serendipitous moment for downtown Kansas City. Downtown, formerly a staid workplace for 60,000 by day and a virtual ghost town by night, now hosts 122,000 employees — more than a third of the city’s workforce — as well as 33,000 residents, making it the equivalent of the metro’s 11th-largest city.
The area drew more than 10.5 million tourists in the first quarter alone.
On top of yearslong…Table of Experts: Seize the moment for KC’s downtown
Decades of revitalization efforts have dovetailed with the type of successes that can’t be planned in a serendipitous moment for downtown Kansas City. Downtown, formerly a staid workplace for 60,000 by day and a virtual ghost town by night, now hosts 122,000 employees — more than a third of the city’s workforce — as well as 33,000 residents, making it the equivalent of the metro’s 11th-largest city.
The area drew more than 10.5 million tourists in the first quarter alone.
On top of yearslong…
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A new take on an old building material is gaining momentum in U.S. construction, in large part driven by rising demand for sustainable options.
Mass timber, virtually unheard of a decade ago, now has been used in the construction or design of more than 2,100 multifamily, commercial or institutional mass timber projects nationwide, according to nonprofit WoodWorks. As of March, Missouri had 10 mass timber structures under construction or built, with 18 in design. Kansas had three and four, respectively.
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