KC Facts?

mpls · Post by **mpls** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:26 pm

can someone please give me some general facts about kc?
stuff like:
-downtown resident population
-sf of downtown cbd
-major employers
-growth
-any thing else!

thanks guys!

KCgridlock · Post by **KCgridlock** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:47 pm

KC Facts:

City Population ~ 450,000
Metro Population ~ 2 million

60% Missouri side
40% Kansas side

Downtown ~ 10,000 residents (growing very rapidly)
Downtown Jobs ~ 100,000 (including Crown Center)

Major employers
HNTB, American Century, Sprint, Hallmark, H&R Block, DST

trailerkid · Post by **trailerkid** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:47 pm

If you're thinking about moving here, this would help...
www.downtownkc.org

9,000 residents downtown now...a map with some existing and emerging neighborhoods...

Some major employers from downtownkc.org....
# AT&T
# Bank of America
# BGM Industries
# Blue Cross & Blue Shield
# Children's Mercy Hospital
# City of Kansas City, Missouri
# Commerce Bank
# DST Systems
# Federal Government
# Hallmark
# Jackson County
# Kansas City Power & Light
# Kansas City, Missouri Police Department
# Kansas City, Missouri School District
# Southwestern Bell
# Truman Medical Center
# UMB Financial Corporation

KCDevin · Post by **KCDevin** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:25 pm

My kind of facts...

Tallest Building: One Kansas City Place, 632ft 1200 Main
Tallest structure: KCPT Tower, 1220ft 2100 Stark
Tallest freestanding structure: KCTV Tower, 1042ft 129 E 31st St. (near 31st and main)
Most famous building: Power and Light Building, 481ft 1330 Baltimore Ave, held the tallest building in Missouri title for 45 years.
Tallest hotel: Hyatt Regency, 530ft 2345 McGee Street
City Hall: 443ft 414 East 12th Street

Other facts...
City Area: 313.5sqmi (not including underground complexes)
Nicknames: The City of Fountains, The BBQ Capital of the World, Heart of America, The Home of Jazz
Sister Cities of Kansas City: Kurashiki, Japan; Tainan City, Taiwan; Freetown, Sierra Leon; Xi’an, China; San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico; Guadalajara, Mexico; Hannover, Germany; Seville, Spain; Morelia, Mexico; Ramle, Israel; Arusha, Tanzania; and Port Harcourt, Nigeria. (Information from KCSkyscrapers.com)

Major Companies (including metro, first several from kcskyscrapers.com):
American Century Investments
Bartlett & Company
Black & Veatch
Commerce Bancshares
DeBruce Grain
DST Systems
Dunn Industries
Farmland Industries
H & R Block
Hallmark Cards
Interstate Bakeries
Kansas City Southern Industries
Payless Cashways
Russell Stover Candies
Seaboard Corporation
Sprint
Sprint PCS
Sutherland Lumber
UMB Financial
Aquila (formally Utilicorp)
VT
Yellow Corporation
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Cabela's
Kansas City Power and Light
Waller Trucks
...

Major Colleges/University's in Metro:
University of Missouri Kansas City
Kansas State (not KU)
Johnson Cty. Community College
Metropolitain Community Colleges
Avila College
Park University
Rockhurst University
William Jewell College
Baker University School of Professional and Graduate Studies
Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
MidAmerica Nazarene University
University of Kansas Edward Campus
KU Medical Center School of Medicine
UMKC School of Medicine
Communiversity
The Culinary Center of Kansas City
New Writer's Workshop
Theatre for Young America Acting Classes
(From Insiders' Guide to Kansas City)

Maybe more later...

mpls · Post by **mpls** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:22 pm

thanks guys.

kc_devotee · Post by **kc_devotee** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 11:10 am

Can anyone tell me what the population is of KC, south of the river?

kc_devotee · Post by **kc_devotee** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 11:11 am

Can anyone tell me what the population is of KC, south of the river?

Post by **dangerboy** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 11:17 am

kc_devotee wrote:Can anyone tell me what the population is of KC, south of the river?

The Jackson County portion of KCMO is estimated at 320,000 for 2002, which is about 70% of the entire population. There is a small portion of the city in Cass County, but that is less than 100 people.

http://www.kcmo.org/planning.nsf/citywi ... endocument

kc_devotee · Post by **kc_devotee** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:52 pm

Thanks Dangerboy! Wow, that really speaks to how much density the Jackson County section of KC has lost over time....it is rather comparable to St. Louis when one frames it that way. We really need to focus on stemming that tide!

Post by **dangerboy** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 1:37 pm

If you look at the trend, the loss is tapering off. The population of the urban core has stabilized and even begun to grow again in many urban neighborhoods.

Much of the recent loss in the Jackson portion can be attributed to older, inner-suburban areas of southern KCMO - for example the Ruskin and Hickman Mills neighborhoods.