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The realization of the site’s redevelopment — with renovation designs and study by BNIM — could be as close as 18 months away and would include a full rehab of the space to include a museum, new animation studios, and a co-working site expected to be managed by Kansas City-based Plexpod, Rigby told Startland News.

After a years-long hiatus, work could begin again as soon as this month — exactly 98 years after Disney first moved into the space in May 1922.
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moderne wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 3:10 pm It's mostly open lots around there where a drunk can plow into without harm, but this car-ella deville has to do this.

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The Missouri Development Finance Board later this month could vote on a $500,000 state tax credit application submitted by Thank You Walt Disney Inc., which next year hopes to begin an approximately $7 million rehabilitation of the historic Laugh-O-Gram Building at 1127 E. 31st St., just off Troost. The board heard an informational presentation on the project this week, after the city applied for the tax credits on the volunteer group's behalf in November.
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Gary Sage, vice president of Thank You Walt Disney and leader of the building project, said the effort also intends to build on significant private investments made along the Troost corridor to date. The rehabilitated Laugh-O-Gram Building will support 83 new full-time jobs with average annual salaries of $60,000, according to its state tax credit application.
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The $500,000 in state tax credits for the Laugh-O-Gram Building would provide a 50% match for $1 million in private contributions. A $2 million federal appropriation supported by now-Congressman Cleaver's office also now awaits Senate approval after passage through the House.

Contingent on the additional money, the building renovation could see construction begin in October 2023, allowing for operations to begin in December 2024.
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