KANSAS CITY-Officials hope the exhibit and traveling store increase admissions and sales at refurbished Union Station during its five-month run. A Union Station restaurant is named for a guest of honor at the Titanic launch.

KANSAS CITY-The first phase of a study concurs with a plan for Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport to handle trains rather than planes. The study nixed building another runway at the airport once used by the Air Force.

INDEPENDENCE, MO-Lowe's Home Improvement is out of the gate at new the 550,000-sf shopping center near Interstates 70 and 470. Costco Warehouse Club is scheduled to open this summer.

JEFFERSON CITY, MO-The Truman Sports Complex, Kemper Arena and Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City; a new Cardinals stadium and Savvis Center in St. Louis; and a new arena at the University of Missouri in Columbia would get funds.

OVERLAND PARK, KS-The total number of permits issued are 53 fewer than last year. The only area of growth is new construction permits, where the 29 issued this year are four more than the first quarter of 2000.

OVERLAND PARK, KS-The company's new headquarters in the 11000 block of Cody Drive will be about 84,000 sf. Ash Grove Cement Co. will move there in 2004, when its lease at 8900 Indian Creek Pkwy. expires.

KANSAS CITY-City Union Mission will move administrative offices to the 11,000-sf building, which it bought for about $650,000. Hoffman-Cortes will be moving to a building that it renovated near 16th and Baltimore.

KANSAS CITY-Jim Hogan sells his interest in two Stroud's restaurants to his two partners, Mike and Dennis Donegan, and plans to open the new Stroud's with his family.