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60 years (founded 1963) BRR Architecture

60 Years (founded 1963) AAA Disposal Service Ace Steering & Brake Service Barnes & Dodge Bob Victor’s Picture Frames Bones Transportation BRR Architecture Cass Regional Medical Center Comet Industries Dental Excellence Dungy’s Market First Bank of Missouri Horsepower Control Systems Kansas City Chiefs Football Club Marcon Marketing Concepts Mcgraw Fertilizer Service Midwest Acoustics Neal-Settle Printing Orion Fittings Quality Refrigeration, Inc. Radio Controlled Garage Door & Gate Sprague Excavating Co. Springbok Puzzles Stephenson & Meyer Insurance Agency Suburban Lawn & Garden Suburban Rod & Custom Classics Trieb Sheet Metal Co. Trojan Press 55 Years (founded 1968) A-1 Sewer & Septic Service Airparts Inc. American Fire Sprinkler Corp. Associated Women’s Care Physicians Atchison County Auction Co. Beal Properties Brookridge Day School Bryan, Lykins & Hejtmanek Butler National Corporation Carlson Construction Management Clayman Promotional Group Davis Fence Co. Dun-Par Engineered Form Co. Earley Tractor Fred Sweeney Rare Coins Havens Construction Jayhawk Concrete Finishing United Manufacturing V’s Italiano Ristorante Wagner’s Mud-Jacking Co. Wallace Saunders

BRR Architecture was founded in 1963 by the original partners, Bill Franklin and C.I. Frieze. The firm began as a grocery architecture firm and, over the years, grew into additional sectors, including retail, corporate envi ronments, hospitality, multi-family, and mixed-use projects. How? Respon siveness to clients, a focus on continual improvement, and an emphasis on quality are core principles that drove the firm’s success. Mariah Meyer took the helm of BRR in January 2022 as its first female CEO, and is the driving force behind a 2025 strategic plan. “I understand the tremendous respon sibility I have to my 300+ teammates at BRR; I come to work each day motivated by what we will accomplish together. We intend to expand on this legacy of excellence and deliver inspiring architecture for our clients.” Kansas City Chiefs One could get super technical and argue that the Dallas Texans came into being three years before the team moved to Kansas City, but as an equally technical counter-point, the Kansas City Chiefs didn’t exist in 1960, ’61 or ’62. So yes, the team we know today came into being in 1963, and this year marks 60 years since that happy transformation. The sixth decade was even more successful than the first, when the Chiefs were the terror of the old American Football League—they won 71.88 percent of their games the past decade (Thanks, Andy! Thanks, Patrick!), compared to 62.14 percent in the Hank Stram/Len Dawson epoch. 55 years (founded 1968) Kansas City Royals At times, the years have been lean and the victories few, but that only makes it sweeter for Royals fans when the wins do stack up. Not long after the club’s inaugural season in 1969, the team was banging heads year after year with baseball’s elite—the damn Yankees—for the American League championship. Four World Series later (two as champs, in 1985 and 2015) Kansas City fans find some comfort in not being one of the seven teams with the worse all-time winning percentages, including bigger-market teams from Seattle, Dallas, Philadelphia, San Diego, Denver and Miami. All time, the Royals have won 47.8 percent of their games, with a cumulative win-lost record of 4,057-4,427. 50 years (founded 1973) Cates Service Co. Heating & Air Conditioning Success? It’s all in the QTPES at Cates Heating & Cooling. If you need to brush up on your acronyms, that’s Quality Technicians Providing Excep tional Service. That’s not just a corporate value, it’s a mind-set at this fami ly-owned HVAC specialist founded half a century ago. Those quality techs bring more than 400 years of combined industry experience, along with a get-it-done attitude of “yes” when customers ask if this Lenexa-based com

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pany can fix their issues. Golden Boy Pies

Terry Hunt had a passion for pies when he founded his own commercial bakery in 1973, and the quality of the product has helped Golden Boy Pies withstand consolidation and contraction in that restaurant-services niche. Longevity is easier to achieve if you commit to making your products, from scratch, with quality, natural ingredients. At Golden Boy, that means pies,

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January 2023