Tag: small

Pitt’s Is Country Couture

admin — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:00:31 +0000

Photo: Hugo Yu

When Jeremy Salamon, of Agi’s Counter in Crown Heights, opened a second restaurant, I would not have guessed that the standard-bearer of Hungarian Jewish cooking’s party-of-one revival movement would go so goyische. Salamon had just published Second Generation, a cookbook devoted to keeping alive the traditions of his grandmother, Agi, who survived Holocaust-era Budapest.

KCMO sets aside $1.4M to get small biz, artists in the front door before World Cup arrives

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:29:28 +0000

A city-led and funded effort to fill vacant storefronts in downtown Kansas City ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is still taking shape, officials said this week, noting that crafting the infrastructure for the program alongside private property owners is expected to extend through the summer.

Global startups plug into Topeka: How Kansas connections are powering their innovation

admin — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 03:58:59 +0000

TOPEKA — Collaboration in the Midwest is just a call away, said Romaine Redman. It’s a reality that sets the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem apart, he added, and a heartland trait that seeds Topeka’s Plug and Play accelerator with the potential for international impact.

The Gruesome and the Infernal Bring Her Back

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:07:00 +0000

The Philippou brothers discuss staying small for their big movie

Erik Piepenburg Used to Man-hunt at Veselka

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:00:26 +0000

Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne

Times veteran Erik Piepenburg came of age — and came out — in the ’90s, a time when, he says, gay restaurants were “everywhere” in New York, particularly in neighborhoods like Chelsea and the East Village.

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No time to roll credits: Film tax incentives give Kansas City more screen time than ever

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:36:48 +0000

After Hallmark movie touchdown, TV and film crews are scoring big in Kansas City, official says

With cameras rolling and spotlights shining, Kansas City is positioning itself as one of the Midwest’s most attractive film destinations, said Rachel Kephart, noting reinvigorated support from city hall and an effective mix of local and state incentives.
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Roar of the Crowd: June 2025

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000
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Landlord’s solution to Kansas housing crisis: 3D print his own home inventory

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:47:37 +0000

TOPEKA — Regularly confronted with a lack of supply in the housing market — and the subsequent higher prices — landlord and general capital investor Chris Stemler faced a multi-dimensional challenge.
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Just-launched retail hub gets first tenant, battling ‘blight of the heart’ on Troost corner

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:34:39 +0000

‘We are each other’s bootstraps’

Transforming a long-vacant building along Troost into a space for neighborhood small businesses is about empowering the entrepreneurs already living and working in the east side community, said Father Justin Mathews.
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Hog Island to Parkville: Justus Drugstore owners docking new seafood concept in historic Parkville

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:34:19 +0000

The Parker Hollow builds on Chef Jonathan Justus’ mission to put small town Missouri on the menu

PARKVILLE, Mo. — A bright yellow, nearly 150-year-old former Italian restaurant could become Kansas City’s go-to seafood destination with help from the world-renowned hometown culinary team behind Justus Drugstore and Black Dirt.
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How a Small Texas Boxing Gym Inspired One of the Summer’s Most Anticipated Novels

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000
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KC’s Enduralock secures $1.25M SpaceWERX contract to boost satellite docking tech

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:40:09 +0000

A Lenexa tech company has been selected by the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force to address one of the most-pressing challenges facing military operations in the skies and beyond.
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You can’t plan for this: ‘Mr K’ finalists wary of another ‘wrench into the face’ from Washington

admin — Fri, 30 May 2025 19:01:54 +0000

An upended national political and economic climate has rippled down to Main Street, acknowledged leaders of this year’s Top 10 Small Businesses, bringing concerns about racism, DEI backlash, tariffs, and supply chain disruptions to Kansas City’s front door.
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KCMO awards another $100K to help businesses boost outdoor dining ahead of World Cup

admin — Thu, 29 May 2025 17:39:30 +0000

A fresh round of funding for upgraded outdoor dining experiences at small businesses across Kansas City, Missouri, will put entrepreneurs ahead of the game when World Cup revelers arrive in 2026, city officials said Thursday.
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‘Buy, buy, buy while we can’: This KC toy store is stockpiling Christmas gifts now as tariff reality unwraps

admin — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:07:30 +0000

Brett Goodwin and Alan Tipton are feeling even more thankful right now for the large, dry basement at The Learning Tree — the independent toy store they own in Prairie Village — amid worries over tariffs on Chinese imports and how they’ll impact prices from toy manufacturers.

The best they can do to prepare: stockpile merchandise earlier than usual for the holiday season and commit to larger orders, Goodwin and Tipton shared.
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