Tag: small

Complex risks bring community kudos for creative entrepreneur honored by KC Chamber

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:28:34 +0000

Keisha Jordan didn’t know what saying “yes” to a job in Kansas City would unlock when she first relocated in 2020, she said, reflecting on a full-circle moment Tuesday after winning a top arts honor from the KC Chamber during its celebration of small business and entrepreneurs.

KC’s top emerging business is brewing more than just beer at 18th and Vine, owners say

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:00:18 +0000

Winning the Emerging Small Business Award is validation that Vine Street Brewing Co. — Missouri’s first Black-owned brewery — is tapped into what the community wants and needs, two of its owners said Tuesday.

Their engineering firm built a legacy in KC; why these KC Chamber winners are rebranding

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:29:33 +0000

A streamlined brand identity for one of the Midwest’s most influential engineering firms positions “T&B” as one of the secret weapons behind the evolution of Kansas City, the company announced, just moments after earning a top small business award from the KC Chamber.

Founder’s resolve earns KC mental health practice ‘Small Business of the Year’ title

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:07:17 +0000

Editor’s note: The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce is a non-financial partner of Startland News, which serves as the media partner for the Small Business Superstars program.

Kansas City’s newest Small Business of the Year is on a years-long journey to create safe, inclusive spaces for its clients and team, the resilient entrepreneur behind the venture said Tuesday.

How a Small Architecture Firm Designs Texas’s Prettiest Rest Areas

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:06:00 +0000

Dozer debut: Indoor sandbox concept revives zero-screens play for JoCo children

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:00:23 +0000

A giant sandbox playroom in Johnson County evokes a simpler era, said Justin Finn, whose immersive entertainment concept for children opens Tuesday in Leawood.

“No screens,” explained Finn. “I like to say it’s how we grew up as kids. Imagination, the wheels turning.”

This Summer We’re Eating in Grocery Stores

admin — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:00:41 +0000

Photo: Scott Semler

Something exciting is happening inside the city’s supermarkets, bakeries, spice emporiums, Italian grocers, butcher shops, and Korean delis: They’re becoming eating destinations of their own.

Prayer-built coffee shop brews holistic healing with fuel from Grandview father’s faith

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:05:23 +0000

GRANDVIEW, Mo. — Nate Thomas saw something others didn’t in the near-windowless former Masonic lodge and one-time Christian school in southern Jackson County, he said. The Missouri father-of-two envisioned a gathering place with handcrafted coffee and holistic care under one roof.

“Through prayer and patience, the Lord blessed us with this huge space,” said Thomas, a Grandview chiropractor and founder of ASE Coffee, 1800 Highgrove Road. “It became available, and we were able to purchase it and build it out.”

‘Volatile times’: C2FO targets capital access to businesses rattled by global tariff disruptions

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:01:58 +0000

Companies — especially small businesses with limited banking options — need liquidity during times of global economic uncertainty, said Sandy Kemper, detailing C2FO’s fruitful efforts to meet growing demand for fast capital amid unpredictable tariff-related disruptions.

KC BizCare receives $20K grant to promote economic mobility ahead of 2026 World Cup

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:54:43 +0000

A sixth-month initiative to rapidly boost small businesses and entrepreneurs in Kansas City is expected to help KCMO leaders drive readiness for the massive influx of FIFA World Cup visitors in summer 2026.

The National League of Cities (NLC) this week awarded Kansas City a $20,000 grant and expert guidance to promote economic mobility in the city ahead of the unprecedented, 40-day sports event that is expected to bring 650,000 professional soccer fans to the region.

GEWKC submissions open: Organizers seek community-sourced ideas for fall event series

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:53:38 +0000

One of Kansas City’s largest interactive educational experiences for entrepreneurs is inviting community members to drive the conversation when Global Entrepreneurship Week returns in November.

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