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KansasCityStar wrote:Anyone who thinks Kansas City has gone about as far as it can go when it comes to revitalizing downtown should take a little trip upriver to Omaha.

This is a city that doesn’t rest on its laurels. Just last week it was announced that a 24,000-seat ballpark would be built downtown as part of a 25-year deal to keep the College World Series.

http://www.kansascity.com/501/story/616754.html

There's an almost humorous number of references to KC companies/people involved in all of it...
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Good article. I can't wait 4 years until the next article when they wave Omaha's success in KC's face. :)
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Great article.

Asten, some of those KC companies also have offices in Omaha too.
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Post by StreetsOfOmaha »

What a great article. Of course they're going to point out KC ties. An OWH article would have done the same thing. Plus, I think the author was trying to drive home almost an idea of "we've got KC developers/entrepreneurs going up to do projects in Omaha."

I had to laugh a little, though, that they gave a low metro population to Omaha, and rounded their own up to 2 million. :)
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StreetsOfOmaha wrote:I had to laugh a little, though, that they gave a low metro population to Omaha, and rounded their own up to 2 million. :)
If I remember correctly, the population of Kansas City, Missouri, proper, is not that much larger than Omaha, Nebraska, proper.
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KC is around 440,000 and Omaha is over 430,000 and the city itself is growing faster than KC.
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DTO Luv wrote:KC is around 440,000 and Omaha is over 430,000 and the city itself is growing faster than KC.
That's still a pretty meaningless comparison, core population.
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almighty_tuna wrote:
DTO Luv wrote:KC is around 440,000 and Omaha is over 430,000 and the city itself is growing faster than KC.
That's still a pretty meaningless comparison, core population.
Yeah, by that standard, Omaha is bigger than Minneapolis and Baltimore. Not quite.

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almighty_tuna wrote:
DTO Luv wrote:KC is around 440,000 and Omaha is over 430,000 and the city itself is growing faster than KC.
That's still a pretty meaningless comparison, core population.
It certainly is. I was just pointing out the slightest little tinge of bias.
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