Big 5 Champion: Leo Morton
Last year the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce released with great fanfare their 5 big ideas for moving the metro forward. They didn’t want to just talk about 5 ideas. They wanted to make 5...
View ArticleBig 5: Entrepreneurial Brainstorming
How can we become America’s most entrepreneurial city? As part of the Chamber’s Big 5 initiative, eight public forums are underway to get your views. We checked in on one of them this week at the...
View ArticleBig 5: Troost Corridor Revitalization
For a long time in this city, people have lamented why so little progress, so little improvement and economic development has happened east of Troost Avenue–the symbolic, geographic and racial divide...
View ArticleBig 5: Translational Research in the Life Sciences
Last fall when the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce unveiled their five big ideas for moving the metro forward, they named life sciences as one of them. More specifically the initiative is...
View ArticleBig 5: Champion Peter deSilva & One Week KC
Next week is a big week for entrepreneurs and wannabee entrepreneurs in Kansas City. Monday kicks off what is being called One Week KC…nine days of meet-ups, conferences, idea exchanges, speakers,...
View ArticleBig 5: Champion Dr. Patrick James
After months of task forces and meetings and shrinking down its list from close to 200 big ideas, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce introduced its Big 5 Ideas. They decided to roll up their...
View ArticleBig 5: Champion Gary Forsee
It doesn’t get the same attention as Kansas City’s quest to become a mecca for the life sciences or our push to be America’s most entrepreneriurial city, but Kansas City’s zeal to be the global center...
View ArticleBig 5: Moving UMKC’s World Class Arts Programs to a New Downtown Location
They’ve narrowed it down to three. Three sites that is for UMKC to build a new downtown arts campus that would include room for its Conservatory of Music and Dance, but also space for its theater and...
View ArticleKCPT January 2013 Underwriter Highlight: Kansas City Area Life Sciences...
KCPT is pleased to showcase The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute as our January 2013 Underwriter Highlight and thank them for their ongoing support of Kansas City Public Television. The Kansas...
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