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News > Downtown KC

Downtown KC

PART 1

Downtown KC showing great improvement — but how great?

The Star set out to measure downtown’s progress since the dawn of the decade. The upshot: The progress has been good, but not as good as you might think.

PART 2

As much as downtown KC has done, similar cities have done more

Kansas City deserves a pat on the back for everything that’s been accomplished downtown, but the progress often hasn’t kept pace or produced results on par with downtowns in other cities.

How downtown KC measures to its peers

PART 3

Critical work ahead for KC

Kansas City has made major strides to pull its downtown back from the brink. But now the prevailing worry of downtown advocates is that Kansas Citians may think the job is done.