KC Parks crews and volunteers “blitz” Kessler Park Reservoir
By Abby Hoover Last week, Kansas City Parks and Recreation crews from districts all over the city converged on the reservoir at Kessler Park in Historic Northeast. KC Parks QLID…
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- HDF
- February 5, 2022
- 1 minute Read
222: Alex Pérez on Parks Board, Hispanic Development Fund
On this week’s episode of the Northeast Newscast, we’re joined by Alejandra Perez, Board of Kansas City Parks and Recreation Commissioner and Scholarship Program Director for the Hispanic Development Fund…
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- affordable housing
- brinshore development
- February 2, 2022
- 10 minutes Read
Final Paseo Gateway projects to break ground this month
By Abby Hoover The Paseo Gateway Initiative has been in the works since January 2016 when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) executed a five-year Choice Neighborhoods…
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- concourse park
- eternal flame
- January 12, 2022
- 3 minutes Read
600 attend Kennedy Memorial dedication
This week’s historic postcard focuses on the John F. Kennedy Memorial located in the Colonnade in Concourse Park at the intersection of St. John Avenue and Gladstone and Benton boulevards.…
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- kc parks
- November 24, 2021
- 4 minutes Read
PIAC funding to improve Budd Park with shelters
By Dorri Partain After vandals torched one of the wooden picnic shelters in Budd Park in May 2016, park users were left with only one usable shelter house. At the…
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- kansas city
- kc parks
- October 20, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Neighborhood Services Department gets new director
Forest Decker has been appointed Director of the Neighborhood Services Department, accepting the mission to implement a new vision for the department to focus on enhancing services that improve the…
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- kc parks
- park board
- October 14, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
KC Park Board announces new director
On Thursday, Oct. 14, Kansas City Park Board President Jack Holland announced the hiring of Chris Cotten as the new KC Parks director. The Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners…
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- #makingamuseum
- Eric Bosch
- July 28, 2021
- 6 minutes Read
Making Our Museum: Eric Bosch and Mark McHenry
In partnership with Kansas City Museum as they prepare to reopen this fall, we’re interviewing those who have been part of the museum’s journey. This week, publisher Michael Bushnell catches…
KC Parks Board appoints interim director
The Kansas City, Mo., Parks and Recreation Board of Commissioners voted at its June 22 meeting to appoint Deputy Director Roosevelt Lyons as the Interim KC Parks Director. A national search is underway…
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- kc parks
- parks and recreation
- June 10, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Parks Director Rynard announces retirement
Kansas City Parks and Recreation Director Terry Rynard announced her plan to retire in a letter included in the June 10 KC Parks newsletter. “It is with mixed emotions I…
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