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2017 Mayor Sly James and officials from Burns & McDonnell announce a private ly-funded initiative to rebuild Kansas City International Airport in a single terminal design. Neal Patterson, co founder of Cerner Corp., dies of cancer on July 9.

2018 Three pillars of KC business— Lansing Trade Group, Bartlett & Co. and DST Systems— are sold to out-of-state interests. The region’s top two public utilities, KCP&L and Westar, merge in a $12 billion deal creating Evergy, Inc.

2019 Henry Bloch, half the founding partnership that created H&R Block, and one of Kansas City’s leading philanthropists, dies in April at the age of 96. John Sherman announces that he has formed a partnership to buy the Kansas City Royals for $1 billion.

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have been pummeled: According to FDIC statistics for the second quarter, 29 of the 52 in-district commercial banks saw their assets decline from first-quarter lev els, and 21 posted losses for the quarter ended June 30. If you’re on the positive side of those numbers, though, this may be looking more like an opportunity than a crisis. Cap-and-trade bills. One version is moving through the Senate, one through the House. Each has as its main goal a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Neither, say utility executives and free market advocates, bodes well for the en ergy industry—or customers. The local economy seems particularly vulnerable. The Midwest derives 80-90 percent of its electric power from coal, the chief villain in this morality play. 2010 How in the wide, wide world of sports does a power football conference like the Big XII, which has had a team in the Bowl Championship Series title game seven times since 2000 (including this year’s!), end up on the edge of extinction? How is it that the athletic programs at Missouri, Kansas and Kansas State, so important to the successes of that same conference and so vital to this region’s sports iden tity, could be written off as little more than expansion fodder for a second-tier conference? 2011 NOVEMBER Power Play JUNE The Big XII-minus-2

A determined business community projects the mindset of a city crippled by the May 22 tornado: Joplin, they say, will be back. More than 400 business build ings were erased by a top-of-the-EF-5 tor nado. It carved a nine-mile incision, at some points nearly a mile wide, into the city’s south-central section. The storm killed 158 of Joplin’s 50,000 residents. In its wake were 8,000 homes and business es destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, the nine-story skeleton of St. John’s Re gional Medical Center—the region’s larg est employer—and a level of economic ruin that will take years to fully calculate. 2012 JULY Welcome to World-Class Kansas City We like to use that salutation because we don’t consider it an idle boast. So, we encourage our visitors here for the All-Star Game to engage in what the greater Kansas City region has to offer. And we urge you to come back when you can stay a while longer. Especially if you own a business and are pondering expansion operations here. Yes, the eyes of the world will be on Kansas City with the All-Star Game this month. But after the hoopla dies down, this city’s business contributions to the world will keep us batting 1,000. 2013 It hasn’t grabbed the big headlines one might imagine, given where the real estate markets have been over the past half-decade. But something big is going on in the Kansas City area. The statistics bear out that area general contractors, along with architects, designers, sub-con OCTOBER A Looming Boom

tractors and professionals in the trades, have made it through more months of belt-tightening than they’d ever imag ined. But for those who’ve survived, it’s time to start ratcheting things back up. 2014 The Kansas City area’s automobile manufacturing plants play an increasingly vital role in the local economy. The indus try pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the region as automakers retooled for new products and as a result of a new la bor agreement. The area is home to Ford Motor Co.’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo and the General Motors Co. Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kan. The Ford plant, which produces the F-150 pickup truck and Transit commer cial van, employs about 7,500. The GM plant produces the Chevrolet Malibu and the Buick LaCrosse—the latter switched out in 2017 for a Cadillac crossover SUV— and employs nearly 2,500. 2015 NOVEMBER Baseball’s Promised Land One word summarizes the year 2015 in Kansas City: Royals. After 30 years wandering Major League Baseball’s des ert, Kansas City follows up its 2014 sev en-game loss in the World Series with a five-game rout of the New York Mets. The party that ensued several days later drew a crowd estimated at 800,000 to the streets of Downtown—that’s more than a third of the total MSA popula tion. Anyone who doubted the accuracy of those figures, in all likelihood, wasn’t trying to navigate traffic to a Downtown office or workplace the morning of that OCTOBER Wheels of Progress

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