On Labor Day 2006, The Roasterie cemented its status as Kansas City’s premier specialty coffee importer, roaster and distributor when it upsized its headquarters from a modest 15,000 square-foot structure at 2601 Madison Ave. to a 30,000 square-foot building at 1204 W. 27th St., just a half mile from the Boulevard Brewery. From the outside,

The days of gazing upon an ambulance riding the tide of rush hour traffic en route to getting a patient specialized care have left Eastern Jackson County. “Now, the only reason I suspect anyone would want to hitch a ride on an ambulance into town would be for sight-seeing purposes,” said Dan Davidson, public relations

Whether it’s a street scene by impressionist painter Claude Monet or a colossal sheet of glass in the new Bloch Building, nothing is as simple as it seems at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. “When I first saw architect Steven Holl’s watercolor renderings of what the Bloch Building would look like, I thought to myself, ‘This

Building speculative distribution centers is nothing new in Kansas City. But building distribution centers exceeding 100,000 square feet is an altogether new phenomenon in Kansas City. “Bigger boxes have been popping up on the coasts for some time,” says Dan Jensen, principal and director of development for Kessinger-Hunter & Co. “And like a lot of

With Identigen, Symbiotics and OncImmune all settling in the Kansas City area over the next year – joining forces with nearly 120 companies already serving the animal health and nutrition industry – Kansas City is establishing itself as a national hot bed for the bio-tech industry. Identigen Identigen, a bio-science company that applies DNA tracing