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2022 Plans are unveiled for the biggest economic-devel opment project in Missouri history, a Northland data center concentration that will eventually require $108 bil lion in investments over the next four decades.

2023 The University of Kansas Health System strengthens its market-leading position by announc ing the acquisition of Olathe Health System. Chiefs win their second Super Bowl of the Mahomes Kelsey-Reid era.

2024 Once again, the Kansas City Chiefs are champions of the NFL after defeating the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII. True to past form, they managed a come-from-behind victory with a touchdown on the final play of overtime. The Chiefs celebration parade is marred by a fatal shooting that leaves two dozen other people injured. Saint Luke’s Health System merges with BJC HealthCare of St. Louis to create a statewide health network serving Missouri’s 6.1 million residents. Fi y Years of Impactful Players, Corporate Giants, Significant Events, Landmark Developments, and Defining Moments That Shaped Kansas City.

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double-digit leads—the Chiefs fall be hind again in Super Bowl LIV, then put on a fourth-quarter display that grabs the Lombardi Trophy from the wait ing clutches of the San Francisco 49ers. It’s their first NFL championship. MARCH COVID-19 and the ’20 Crash Interviews with experts in epidemiolo gy, health-care delivery, banking, business law, disease modeling, and public health organizations offer assurances that, while the outbreak should be taken seriously, it does not present a threat that justifies panic buying, fear-driven changes in in vestment strategies, product hoarding, or the kind of hyperventilating coverage that drives up ratings for the 24/7 news chan nels. The takeaway from many of those experts is that if the virus is to truly be contained, top-down initiatives will never match the power of hundreds of millions of individuals acting in their own best in terests to minimize their risk of exposure. 2021 DECEMBER Home-Grown Generosity Following a year that began with a Kansas City Super Bowl victory and cel ebratory bash, quickly pivoted into the biggest global pandemic in a century, and wrapped up with perhaps the most divisive presidential election in genera tions, it was easy to overlook something wonderful. For the first time in the his tory of local philanthropy, the 25 largest foundations produced grants and gifts that surpassed $1 billion in a single year. It was a milestone achievement, even in a community known nationally for being exceptionally giving on behalf of causes that serve the needy.

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Yes, there was much to celebrate after winning a second Super Bowl in a three-year span, but Kansas City con tinued to shine in the eyes of an entire nation with the NFL draft stage show set up, drawing an estimated 300,000 peo ple Downtown for three days of football related festivities and fan fever over se lections made by each of the 32 teams. It was a fitting capstone to a heady winter/ spring season following the come-from behind victory over the Philadelphia Ea gles to secure the Chiefs’ third Lombardi Trophy. 2024 JANUARY Looking Back and Ahead Throughout 2024, Ingram’s 50th volume will take you back through the past half-century of business in Kansas City, steadfast in our belief that we’ll never be able to build the city we hope this can be if we surrender our under standing of how we got where we are to day—and how challenging and reward ing that journey has been. In the coming months, we’ll break down in detail and decadal increments, the business deals that would re-create a regional econ omy, double the population of a metro area, stretch our concept of “suburbs” from 75th and Metcalf to 151st and K-7 Highway in Johnson County, well past that new airport in the Northland, push ing to the Lafayette County line on the east and into the far reaches of Jackson County’s southeastern quadrant, even tually creating a 318-square-mile com munity of communities.

Despite a bevy of positive economic indicators, Americans appear to be un certain, anxious, troubled. That’s what inflation of nearly 8.5 percent will do. It saps confidence. It means our dollar buys less this month than last, and un less my income is rising at a rate faster than inflation, our standard of living is falling. We Americans haven’t seen this kind of inflation in decades, and we have been surprised by it and are wor ried. Enemies at the Cybergate All buildings—commercial as well as residential—are getting smarter. But you’re making a stupid move if you don’t know how smart the technology is as your company melds ever more closely into the Internet of Things. From HVAC systems to electronic ac cess to controlled lighting, the points where your operations interface with the rest of the world create enormous risks. The opportunity is here. Kansas City has been selected as one of 16 North American cities to host the FIFA 2026 World Cup. This is a big deal. The Economic Impact for a host city for the World Cup is absolutely massive. Held every four years, the World Cup is eas ily the most watched sporting event in the world. Millions of eyes will be on Kansas City, possibly billions. We will be on the world map once again. The “I” in KCI may actually begin to have meaning. JUNE Game On!

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