Statuary conservator to do KC’s famed fountain
The man who will work on statuary from Kansas City’s most photographed fountain has plenty of experience with statues here and elsewhere.
Jonathan Taggart has done conservation work all over the nation and now lives in Georgetown, Maine.
He ...
Plaza fountain leaves for renovation
A piece missing from the sculpture for decades will be part of it when the fountain reopens. Courtesy Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department.
A major Country Club Plaza attraction for tourists and citizens is gone, but the dramatic fountain ...
JJs returns to the Plaza
JJs Restaurant reopened Wednesday, as Mayor Sly James cut the ribbon and led people in.
It came back in the Plaza Vista Building, almost within sight of the charred remains of the original JJs destroyed by a gas explosion and fire in February ...
JJs back in business in new location
JJs owners offered a preview of the new location in April. File photo.
JJs restaurant on the Plaza is reopening Wednesday following a natural gas explosion and fire in February 2013. Popular server Megan Cramer, who died in the tragedy, will ...
New Plaza office building moves forward
A city council committee on Wednesday advanced a measure related to a proposed 14-story office building on the Country Club Plaza.
It finds a 1.17 acre site on the west side of Pennsylvania near 47th Street to be obsolete, decadent, insanitary ...
JJ’s returning to West Plaza
It doesn’t look like much now, but JJ’s Restaurant will reopen in this space in the Plaza Vista building.
JJ’s owner Jimmy Frantze examines a sword almost lost in the rubble, as West Plaza neighborhood president Joe Montanari ...
Murders down, Plaza quiet, road shootings targeted
Homicides are down for the year and disruptive youths have not hit the Country Club Plaza recently, police reported THursday.
Major Shawn Wade, commander of Midtown’s Central Patrol, reported to the city council public safety committee:
There ...
Here’s your Plaza bunnies map
The Plaza bunnies are one of the great Midtown Kansas City traditions, and each year the Plaza puts out a map so you can find all of your favorite bunnies. Here’s this year’s map.
Showcase Plaza fountain gets upgrade
The J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain gets a major pump upgrade Wednesday, city officials announced today.
The new donated energy-efficient pump will save the city about $10,700 a year in energy costs, they said in a press release.
Grundfos, a ...
Karaoke? Sports? Lure needed to rescue the Plaza
Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forte at the Urban Summit.
The Kansas City police chief asks for help giving young people something to do besides disrupt the Country Club Plaza.
Police will start detaining more of the unruly juveniles, Chief ...
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