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2020 Riots nationwide after the May death of George Floyd arrive at the Kansas City Plaza, but the city is largely spared the severe destruction seen in other metro areas. A tech revolution in the trucking sector foreshadows major changes to the nation’s supply chain.

2021 As the enormous surge in numbers of COVID-19 cases continues, the U.S. ratchets up distribu tion of the first vaccine meant to slow the spread of the disease, innoculating tens of millions.

The world is thrown into economic chaos with the advent of a deadly virus called COVID-19, touching off one of steepest, but short-lived, reces sions in U.S. history. Kansas City’s council approves a new Down- town tower, but the eventual tennant won’t be Waddell & Reed; it will be Blue KC.

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Kansas City Southern Railway closes the year by announcing that it will merge into Canadian Pacific Kansas City, creating the Northern Hemisphere’s first cross-continental rail line from Canada to Mexico.

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parade. The crowd partied as if it knew that celebration wouldn’t be coming back around for another 30 years—prescient, indeed, given the quality of the on-field product over the following three seasons. 2016 NOVEMBER Railroaded Former banker, library chief execu tive and libertarian thinker R. Crosby Kemper III called it “the most un-dem ocratic election in Kansas City since the Pendergast era.” But the spring vote cleared the way for construction of the $102 million starter line for a Downtown streetcar system (all 2.2 miles of it). That development itself, over the next two years, would continue to set the stage for talks about extending the line to the UMKC campus near the Country Club Plaza. Again, voters meeting strict eligi bility criteria are asked to approve expan sion in 2018, and they set the wheels in motion for just that. 2017 Perhaps no other local issue would come to dominate public policy discus sion in Kansas City—this year and the following—as much as an initiative under taken by Burns & McDonnell to start the wheels moving on a makeover of Kansas City International Airport. But after work ing with Mayor Sly James and financial power players to chart out a strategy for a single-terminal airport following years of business-sector demands for upgrades at KCI, the proposal is quickly shot down by critics who cite its no-bid nature and lack of notice to the public that it was com ing. The city eventually awards a contract MAY No Good Deed …

for a $1.2 billion remake—later estimates would approach $2 billion—to Maryland based Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Es tate, with Burns & McDonnell later secur ing a portion of the project. 2018 What do you get when six City Council members, a former U.S. Senate candidate, a civic gadfly and assorted dreamers all decide that fate is calling them to succeed Sly James as mayor of Kansas City? You get the kind of crowded-field dynamic that allowed newcomer Donald Trump to out last 16 veteran Republican politicians to become the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2016. There’s no Kansas City equivalent of what Trump brought to the national scene, but a fragmented field gives hope to a dozen declared candidates that they will prevail in 2019’s municipal elections. About the only certainty to emerge from the field over the next three months was that Jason Kander wouldn’t be claiming the title in 2019—though considered an instant front-runner by many when he en tered the race in June, Kander pulled the plug on his candidacy in October, citing personal issues related to his military ser vice in Iraq a decade ago. When the last lines of Kansas City’s logistics history are written, it’s likely that a pivotal chapter will focus on the year 2013. In March of that year, an upstart commercial realty firm founded just months earlier, NorthPoint Develop ment, secured approval from the Edger ton City Commission to take the lead on a stalled-out logistics park being built just east of that hamlet in southwest John son County. It was envisioned as a com JULY Mayoral Madness NOVEMBER Freight Expectations

panion to a new intermodal facility that BNSF Railway was about to bring online. Just a month later, the new Logistics Park Kansas City saw ground broken for its first tenant, DeLong Grain Co., which was planning a 25,000-square-foot grain distribution facility there, the first steps in an 18-million-square-foot logistics gi ant and a game-changer for the sector. 2019 Well-known to medical professionals for a generation has been the graying of the Baby Boomers, whose charter mem bers turned 73 this year. They’re ushering an unprecedented demand for geriatric care and treatment of the chronic condi tions that accompany aging: orthopedic maladies, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and strokes, neurological diseases, vision, kidney and bladder problems—a smor gasbord of aches, pains, and never-ending treatments. Less well known outside the medical profession is this stark reality: Many of those Boomers—like the ones who follow them into retirement age over the next 12 years—are themselves draw ing paychecks from hospitals, medical centers, clinics, and physician offices. In short, many of those who made careers of providing care are about to switch teams. 2020 FEBRUARY We Did It! Fifty years after their previous appear ance, and one year after a heartbreaking loss to New England ended their season one touchdown away from the Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs come roar ing back. Tearing through the AFC’s best teams—after spotting each one of them AUGUST Finding the Healers

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