Streetcar track installation is the ‘Main’ event
Streetcar construction is taking an exciting new turn this week in Downtown Kansas City. The KC Streetcar Constructors are beginning to embed track on the west side of the Main […]
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What’s next for KC streetcar expansion?
Will Kansas City continue to push for expansion of its streetcar project? Probably, but not for a while, The Kansas City Business Journal reported on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, voters in part […]
Union Station preps for Centennial celebration
Union Station will celebrate its Centennial this fall with a series of special events that were announced this week. The celebration will begin on Friday, Sept. 5 with a night of free festivities. “The story of Union Station […]
Newspaper endorses KC streetcar votes
In a sudden and positive agreement, Missouri and Kansas City officials recently brokered a coordinated plan that could enhance all forms of transportation in this area, The Kansas City Star […]
World Cup Watch Parties – Downtown ranks among planet’s best
Here they were again Tuesday, during work hours, no less, 10,000-plus fans swarming the Power & Light District, The Kansas City Star reported on Wednesday. They were shoehorned and sardined in every […]
Taps at the Tower – every night this week at dusk
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and […]
Maker Faire to present a Creative Extravaganza this weekend
This weekend – yep, this Saturday and Sunday – the coolest inventions, innovators, creators, products, robots, exhibits, crafters, artists and young Makers in the Midwest will all gather at […]
Kauffman Center to celebrate attendance milestone with Future Stages Festival
You and your family are invited to the first-ever Future Stages Festival at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts this Sunday, June 22. To celebrate reaching 1 million visitors since the Kauffman […]
Streetcar Authority selects its first executive director
The Kansas City Streetcar Authority (KCSA) today chose the first Executive Director of the KC Streetcar system. Thomas Gerend will leave his position as Co-Director of Transportation Planning for the […]
Streetcar Authority endorses exterior colors, design
They won’t be Chiefs red, or KU crimson and blue, or MU black and gold. Instead, Kansas City’s new streetcars will be white, black and silver. Some critics say boring. Or […]
Downtown streetcar groundbreaking draws enthusiastic crowd
Fifty-seven years after streetcars stopped running in Kansas City, an enthusiastic crowd gathered under sunny skies Thursday for the official groundbreaking to bring streetcars back to Downtown, The Kansas City […]
Cisco announcement to advance KC as a tech hub
Downtown Kansas City received more affirmation Wednesday that it’s a tech hub with which to be reckoned. As part of an ongoing, public-private effort to identify and solve a variety of […]