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South Kansas City officials criticized the city’s spending before voting “no” on the Roy Blunt Luminary Park’s first phase of construction on Thursday.

“McManus is well regarded as a thoughtful policymaker rather than a ladder-climbing politician.”

5th District-at-Large City Councilman Darrell Curls said he is aware of three other groups interested in redeveloping the property, primarily for business purposes.  

 A street and a park are left as simple reminders of the lives who cultivated the land before us.

During Chief Graves’ relatively brief tenure as chief, as of August 10 in recent years, homicides have gone down significantly from 123 year-to-date homicides in 2023 to only 77 this year.

The next time you grumble about stepping outside into another sweltering Kansas City afternoon, remember that generations before us endured the same relentless heat with little more than shade trees, hand fans, open windows and ingenuity.

Dunford Place is being considered for the Kansas City Register of Historic Places. “I just felt it should be protected,”

The Grandview Board of Aldermen OK’d Kittle Property Group’s development plan and rezoning for a 4-building apartment complex in the Belvidere neighborhood.

Hoffa’s Connection follows the path of North End native Sylvia Pagano and her family from their modest days living in Kansas City’s North End through her strategic rise to power.

“As I was learning about the conflict, I’d look out across the land, and think ‘What happened here?’ This wasn’t just a peaceful river running through here.”

A conceptual development plan for Heritage at Grandview, the four-building apartment complex planned for the Belvidere neighborhood, was unveiled by Kittle Property Group at Tuesday’s meeting of the Grandview Board of Aldermen. The board also discussed rezoning the nuisance property, which has been vacant since 2005.

“It’s an artsy part of the city, so I believe it fits right in.”

Minnie Mae’s story is deeply entwined in a heinous crime with deep connections to Kansas City’s most notorious criminals.

“By 2030,  this open field will be transformed into a modern, cutting-edge business environment.”

“We’ve got several areas in south Kansas City, but we need to really look at how we can demolish these buildings,” said Darrell Curls, councilman for the 5th District at Large. “They’ve been sitting vacant — some of them — for 20-plus years. I mean, that’s unacceptable to me.”