When eclectic communities like the Crossroads become burgeoning neighborhoods where creative tech and architectural firms like to flock, rents inevitably go up, which leads to one overarching problem: How does the neighborhood strive to retain the artists that built it?
Lee’s Summit investment tops $1 billion
North Kansas City brews redevelopment
As large companies flock to the newer, sexier industrial parks across the metro, North Kansas City is finding a unique new identity by transforming its old warehouses into creative spaces like microbreweries and distilleries, rock climbing walls, entrepreneurial business incubators, arts workshops, and the CrossFit training facility in the world.



