The 60,000-square-foot building, which was initially planned for a Circuit City electronics store, will be razed and replaced by an IKEA home furnishing store that will be about six times as large. The IKEA store is scheduled to open in fall 2014.
It was a safe bet that Cerner Corp. would once again lead the The Star’s rankings as the region’s top-performing public company. Cerner, the nation’s second-largest company that helps hospitals and doctors’ offices convert paper files into computerized medical records, is in a sweet spot. Other top-ranked companies here do business in areas that have an edge: energy, rail transit and online government services.
The already-hefty pay packages of many public-company executives bulged last year, thanks to higher values of their company stocks. Million-dollar base salaries – as paid to Cerner Corp. CEO Neal Patterson (pictured) and Waddell & Reed Financial CEO Hank Herrmann – are only the beginning. For most of the bigger-company CEOs, stock awards, options and “non-equity incentive” compensation dwarf their base pay.
The 60,000-square-foot building, which was initially planned for a Circuit City electronics store, will be razed and replaced by an IKEA home furnishing store that will be about six times as large. The IKEA store is scheduled to open in fall 2014.
More than three years after it closed, Westport mainstay The Corner Restaurant has been resurrected in the same spot but with new owners, a new decor and new menu. Executive chef Natasha Sears said the kitchen uses many local vendors, and makes about 90 percent of the menu from scratch on-site.
This summer, high rollers are flying to lavish hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are driving to less luxurious places like nearby campgrounds.
Sparking a 13-year-old’s interest in investing often comes down to finding stocks that he or she can relate to. And in this case, there are several Iron Man investment angles.
The organization, which provides services for business expansion and retention, announced the appointment of Bernardo Ramirez as executive vice president and chief operating officer, and T’Risa McCord as senior vice president-chief administrative officer.
The 60,000-square-foot building, which was initially planned for a Circuit City electronics store, will be razed and replaced by an IKEA home furnishing store that will be about six times as large. The IKEA store is scheduled to open in fall 2014.
Reaction to my last column allowing that the advocates of a new single terminal at Kansas City International Airport might have a decent case was certainly bracing. Most of the more than 100 callers, emailers and kansascity.com commenters batted me roundly about. But many others allied themselves with the single-terminal advocates.
After fully hashing out pros and cons, Kansas Citians may want to stick with the old flame. To carry the day, new-airport advocates will have to heavily restack the deck of arguments in their favor. That’s what’s going to be required to toss over a 40-year love affair.
U.S. orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rebounded in April, buoyed by more demand for aircraft and stronger business investment. The gains suggest economic growth may be holding steady this spring.
Slovenia's parliament on Friday adopted a cap on public spending to try to convince foreign investors that the small eurozone country will not need an international bailout.
