Ingrams June 2023

IN THE NEWS

Tidbits of Business News from Around the Region

KANSAS DOUGLAS COUNTY Plastic-Bag Ban Proposed

and infuses roughly 600 employees to support additional financial planning lines and expand new business-service lines.

Homefield athletic-themed development near Village West, a project that includes a $150 million hotel with 229 rooms and a youth baseball complex valued at $40 million. A $60 million indoor multisport building is already under construction, and work is planned for a $53 million indoor arena, a $26.7 million immersive art museum, and a $20 million BigShots Golf facility. Last month, the county asked for more time to review financing mechanisms as part of the $838 million Homefield project. Medicare Provider Moving In A month after being acquired by CVS Health in a $10.6 billion deal, primary care provider Oak Street Health says it will open a clinic in Kansas City, Kan. The company, which primarily serves Medicare patients, already has a site in Independence. The Wyandotte County office will be in the 1200 block of North Seventh Street. That news was part of the announcement that Oak Street, which has 172 locations in nearly two dozen states, was expanding in Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, and Virginia.

SHAWNEE COUNTY Property Tax Rebate

After four years of on-again, off-again study and deliberations, the Lawrence City Commission is considering a ban on single use plastic bags. Staff documents in support of the ban, aimed at reducing the environ mental impact of waste bags, estimate that city residents dispose of as many as 36 million of them a year—an average of roughly one a day for each of the 95,000 residents there. JOHNSON COUNTY Creative Planning Adds More Already the region’s largest wealth management firm, Creative Planning has followed an acquisition-heavy 2022 with an agreement to buy BerganKDV, a Minneapolis wealth manager and account ing firm. That adds $2.5 billion in assets under management to Creative’s base, which stood at more than $220 billion,

Topeka is moving forward with City Council consideration of a measure that would deliver property tax rebates to owners whose annual household incomes are no more than $37,750. As currently envisioned, it would apply only to the city portion of taxes collected by Shawnee County, currently about $900 on a home valued at $200,000. Details of the proposal are still being framed out, but supporters say rebates would go to all resi dents who pay city property taxes and are eligible for a state homestead refund.

WYANDOTTE COUNTY Homefield Makes Its Pitch

Unified Government officials have resumed consideration of the massive

Coming in January:

th Anniversary Special Edition

A special commemorative issue that will look back on how Kansas City’s business infrastructure has evolved since the first publication of Corporate Report (forerunner of Ingram’s), was published in 1974. We’ll cover the people and companies that built this region over the years, take note of the biggest stories in our publication’s history, and look ahead to what the next half century might bring.

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