Darby Brender’s classes at Fusion Fitness were jammed at the start of March. Business was so good, her three locations around the Kansas City area, with 40 instructors, were pulling in 500 high-energy exercising clients a week.
“Classes were packed,” the owner said. “Everyone was happy.”
So it seemed for her 300 neighboring merchants in downtown Overland Park, where many seemed to reaping the fruits of a fast-paced economy nourished by the lowest unemployment rate, 3.5%, in half a century.
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