Developers Want Tax Breaks For Kansas City s Katz Drug Store, But Some Worry The Price Is Too High kcur.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kcur.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tax breaks for Katz Drug Store project in Westport advance despite objections Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
Jun. 16 A Kansas City Council committee on Wednesday approved tax breaks for a developer who plans to build new apartments while also fixing up the historic Katz Drug Store Building in Westport.
Lux Living, based in St. Louis, proposes building a six-story, 192-unit apartment building on top of underground parking behind the Katz Building at Westport Road and Main Street. The overall cost of the project is $37.6 million.
The developer sought tax breaks that exceeded what an independent analysis showed was necessary for the project, but the council committee ended up passing a reduced level of benefits. The full Kansas City Council is expected to take the issue up Thursday for a final vote.
Major banks reveal major issue of abusive transactions
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The big four banks have acknowledged that more needs to be done on abusive transactions, after identifying more than 100,000 threatening or abusive transactions in only three months.
While fronting the House of Representatives’ standing committee on economics for their review of four major banks, it was revealed that the banks had blocked more than a hundred thousand transactions with abusive or threatening messages in their description fields in just a few months.
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has been leading the way in this over the past year, after one of its staff members identified customers sending potentially abusive messages in banking transaction descriptions.
Flooding forced tenants out. They want more help from their landlord, and Kansas City Allison Kite and Cortlynn Stark, The Kansas City Star
Mar. 8 Jarrod McDaniel was in bed late at night last month when the fire alarm sounded at his downtown apartment building. When he got downstairs, he said, the lobby was flooded.
A pipe had burst, cutting off power to the Professional Building Lofts at 11th Street and Grand Boulevard and forcing tenants out. Their landlord put them up at a nearby hotel.
But now, McDaniel, a special education teacher, and his neighbors are scrambling to get their belongings out of the building. Many of their leases have been terminated. And the building won t be habitable until May.
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