Kansas City
The Kansas City area is a 15-county metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri and split by the border between Missouri and Kansas. The 2010 Census shows it to have a population of 2,035,334. Kansas City traditionally has a stable, educated work force that exceeds the national average in wages. Yet, Kansas City housing is usually right around the national median for housing prices.
- Kansas City metropolitan area has a population of 2,020,256, making it the 25th largest city in the United States.
- Fortune Magazine dubbed in Kansas City, “a haven for real estate.”
- KC Business Journal expects economic recovery to the next level in 2011.
- Kansas City was named one of five “destinations Watch” by Smarter Travel.com
- Midwest Airlines Magazine, said: “The superlative museums, exciting arts scene, blues and jazz clubs, Kansas City has something for everyone.”
- Yahoo Finance said Kansas City is one of the “Top 20 cities to survive the economic downturn.”
- The Forbes Magazine Ranked # 10 in Kansas City in the country “town, where the recession is to facilitate”.
- Singapore Travel labeled in Kansas City is one of America’s “most underrated cities’.
Economy & Industry. Kansas City are the main industries of transportation, government, communications and health. And ‘home to several Fortune 1000 companies including Sprint Nextel, YRC Worldwide, Hallmark, Harmon Industries, Great Plains Energy and AMC Theatres. In addition, other local employers with more than 5,000 employees are Federal Express, Ford, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and Wausau chain, H & R Block, Interstate Bakeries Ltd., Garmin International, DST Systems, Cerner Corporation, and Russell Stover candies.Despite a gloomy national economic context, U.S. Bank will create 1000 new jobs at a new service center in Overland Park (KC suburb) and the Netherlands, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, is www.yrcw.com 1000 new drivers this year. Last but not least, Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant (they build the Ford F-150 and Ford Escape) and General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant (suburb of Kansas City)) are both starting to rehire people they let go when the recession started so there are signs of economic recovery in Kansas City.
Kansas City Revitalization. Kansas City recently invested $ 9 billion in reconstruction, with $ 4.5 billion will create a new downtown entertainment area known as The Power and the Barrio. This development is an incredible state of the art of the nine blocks of entertainment with restaurants, bars and retail stores. It is anchored by the Sprint Center, a complex of 19,000 seats that is hosting the NCAA tournament in college basketball. The Sprint Center is one of the best locations for sports and music in the Midwest.Only a year after the submission of a new 200 hectares of rainforest in Kansas City Zoo has done it again, this time for the largest polar bear in an exhibition between Chicago and West Coast. Polar Bear Arctic Passage is a playground of last residence of KC, Nikita: 4 years, 750 pound polar bear. $ 11 million project is the latest in a long improvements to the zoo, the 10 largest in America. New for 2011 is an African safari Sky. Crossing the largest exhibition of the park, aerial tram offers a breathtaking view of the Zoo, all within a large, 17-acre savannah.