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Kansas City Becoming a Boom Town

KANSAS CITY—Over $6 billion has poured into the downtown in recent years.

By Brian J. Rogal | Updated on July 10, 2014

KANSAS CITY—Many cities across the Midwest have seen a revival in recent years, as young people who reject the suburban lifestyle flock to the region’s downtowns. Companies that want to tap into this new and growing concentration of potential employees have also followed, filling up old, underused structures and even developing new towers.

“There is a stunning difference between downtown Kansas City ten years ago and today,” Bob Marcusse, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas City Area Development Council, tells GlobeSt.com. “You would never have thought ten years ago that this would be happening.”

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