Some Good News for Kansas City and St. Louis
For years, many who sought to excel in a creative or professional field headed to the coasts. Cities like New...
Kansas City and St. Louis Battling National Trends
From costly bad bets subsidizing the development of Kansas City’s Power & Light District to promoting the St. Louis Ballpark...
Millennials Are Buying in the Suburbs
Kansas City has been on a spending spree to try to attract millennials downtown, having been caught up in the...
Kansas City Dodged the #HQ2 Bullet
Richard Florida is an urban studies theorist who promoted the idea that the creative class would drive urban renewal and...
Are Kansas City and Saint Louis Getting Taken?
The deadline for submissions to Amazon to host their new headquarters building has come and gone, and both Kansas City...
Like Google, Amazon Wants Good Government over Gimmickry
The imaginations of municipal governments across the country have been captured by the prospect of being chosen as the location...
Evidence from Across the Country: Economic Development Subsidies Don’t Work
The Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Michael Hiltzik published a piece that observes exactly what we at The...
Kansas City’s Development Guru Admits He Was Wrong
Most Kansas Citians won’t recognize the name, but we owe much of the inspiration for our downtown development scheme to...
Kansas City Embraces Baristanomics
Streetcars, entertainment districts, new airport terminals, Republican confabs, Super Bowls, creative-class millennials, and convention hotels all have grabbed headlines in recent...
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