Countdown: 7 reasons & 7 days left to apply for LaunchKC

Tech entrepreneurs have only seven more days to apply for a share of the $500,000 funding pool offered by LaunchKC, the global grants competition. LaunchKC is in its third year of offering $500,000 in non-dilutive grants to tech startups,…

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum receives $1 million from MLB & Players

  The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Downtown Kansas City received a substantial gift this week from Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and players association executive…

Loews Hotels to join with KC Hotel Developers on Convention Hotel

KANSAS CITY, MO - Loews Hotels & Co, a wholly owned subsidiary of Loews Corporation, and KC Hotel Developers LLC announced a partnership this morning to build the new Loews Kansas City Convention Center Hotel.  Loews Hotels is a joint…

City Council clears path for Downtown convention hotel

The Downtown KC convention hotel has moved one critical steps closer to reality. The City Council approved an ordinance last week that convention hotel planners say is the last legislative approval needed to aim for a groundbreaking by early…