- Open for business: Shawnee grabbing attention of outside development world
- 12:00 a.m., May 1, 2013 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Shawnee has long faced “a perception challenge” in trying to attract commercial development and new employers, Andrew Nave says.
- Downtown celebration will feature open houses, food trucks, chalk art
- 07:22 p.m., April 30, 2013 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Celebrating the Beauty and the Best of Downtown Shawnee, an annual event showcasing the area and its merchants, has come a long way from the yearly cleanup days of downtown’s more litter-strewn past.
- Excise tax suspension spurs industrial development
- April 23, 2013
- Shawnee has reaped the first benefits from the City Council’s vote last month to suspend the city’s excise tax on new development.
- Marco’s Pizza, Family Video team up to offer dinner, movies
- 12:00 a.m., April 17, 2013 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Family Video is taking a slice out of the local pizza market with a new franchise location and dinner-and-a-movie promotions.
- From FBI roots …
- Local firms have become high-tech security, investigative forces
- 12:00 a.m., April 3, 2013 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- An undercover agent investigating a pair of subjects for federal weapons violations exited a car he was in with the men recently but left his cell phone behind.
- New Firehouse Subs location blends local color, popular fare
- March 27, 2013
- Residents have been hotfooting it to the new Firehouse Subs franchise at 6415 Quivira Road in the Shawnee Village Shopping Center.
- Real estate review
- March 19, 2013
- Every month, The Dispatch offers information on how the housing market is going in area counties.
- Shawnee attracts two companies, more than 60 jobs from Lenexa
- 07:15 p.m., March 19, 2013 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Call it a 10 percent touché. Shawnee, which will be losing more than 600 jobs when Perceptive Software moves to Lenexa, will gain more than 60 from two Lenexa firms moving here.
- Firms moving more than 60 jobs from Lenexa to Shawnee
- March 14, 2013
- Two Lenexa firms are moving to the Shawnee Office Suites building at 6840 Silverheel St., a development that will add more than 60 jobs.
- Shopping center project bags $7 million in incentives
- March 12, 2013
- The Shawnee City Council approved $7 million worth of incentives Monday for a $16.5 million project to redevelop the Shawnee Parkway Plaza retail center at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Pflumm.
- Wyandotte County officials pin hopes on additional single-family homes
- February 27, 2013
- New apartment complexes may be popping up quickly in the next year, but the Unified Government is hoping housing across the county begins to grow at the same rate.
- Area’s retail development spurs construction of apartment complexes
- February 27, 2013
- Guy Tiner, a Wyandotte County residential developer, is preparing to build a 248-unit, gated apartment complex sometime in the next year — one of several apartment developments in the works in western Wyandotte County.
- Recreational opportunities abound in Wyandotte County
- February 27, 2013
- The water boils — and, in winter, little icebergs crash — at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers at Kaw Point Park.
- Improvements planned for highways, bus routes throughout county
- February 27, 2013
- Improving transportation for drivers and transit riders has been a priority for Wyandotte County over the last year. With a new bus route and work about to begin at Kansas Highway 7 and U.S. Interstate 70, transportation officials are hoping residents find it easier to get where they’re going.
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