A look at significant events in the Kansas City real estate market Kansas City is such a conservative real estate market that it's those go-go industrial developers who are adding the excitement. Yes, go-go industrial developers. Turner training program helps minority businesses The business of construction isn't as easy as swinging a hammer, so Turner Construction Co. has established a training program to teach some smaller contractors the finer details of the trade. Reviewing the area's biggest development projects Jumping from the drawing board to dry land is one of the biggest challenges of development. And judging from the plans piled on drawing boards around town, Kansas Citians are trying to make some big leaps.
Some developers are in mid-flight while others are still getting a running start.
The campaign to beautify some ugly downtown structures is getting closer to reality. At a meeting of the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority late last month, some leaders offered a proposal that would create a system to take control of properties that are sliding into ruin and dragging down neighboring property values.