Developers, city leaders celebrate grand opening of The District at Lenexa City Center

Developers and Lenexa city leaders last week celebrated the grand opening of The District at Lenexa City Center.

The District at City Center Lenexa is a mixed-use development featuring retail, corporate, residential, civic and recreational components located at West 87th Street and Penrose Lane, across the street from the Public Market and the new Lenexa City Center Library.

In his opening remarks Thursday, Copaken Brooks Principal Keith Copaken welcomed the crowd to “downtown in the making.”

“This is the next generation of suburban mixed use,” Copaken said. “There’s not another development in Kansas City that combines all these pieces of the puzzle together, and that, in large part, is due to the city. I can’t think of another project that has put all this in one place — let alone done it as successfully as Lenexa has.”

(Read more: Prairie Village Post)

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T07:58:19-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Tonganoxie residents urge emphasis on city code enforcements

Some Tonganoxie residents are asking the city to continue to look at ways to improve blighted properties and other areas that might need addressed.
Former Tonganoxie City Council member Jamie Lawson gave a presentation in front of the council and roughly 50 other residents at the June 3 council meeting that discussed concern about residences in the community that could be cleaned up, including properties that have been repeat offenders when it comes to ordinance violations.

(Read more: TonganoxieMirror.com stories)

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T07:57:46-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Shawnee County hopes to address food insecurity through creation of new council

Shawnee County Health Department is looking to create the area’s first local farm and food council in an effort to address food insecurity among county residents.

Craig Barnes, manager of the department’s Health Outreach and Planning Division, announced such plans in a presentation Monday morning to the Shawnee County Commission.

According to Barnes, impending creation of the council is one of four initiatives the health department expects will promote healthier living in Shawnee County. Two of those — development of the Shawnee County Farm and Food Advisory Council and investment in a “health planner” position — are already underway, Barnes noted. The recently hired planner’s name is Susan Caman.

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T08:05:49-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Wakefield to begin fining residents with unclean gutters

Starting in July, the City of Wakefield will begin issuing $25 tickets to residents who failed to keep their street gutters clean.

The City of Wakefield posted that the fines will begin to be issued after annual cleaning of streets, which takes place in July. CleanRite, with whom the city has a contract to clean the streets, will be coming for three to four days to clean and sweep the streets.

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T08:00:07-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Lawrence city leaders want cap on how many whole-home Airbnbs a single owner can operate

City leaders expressed interest Tuesday in putting a cap on the number of whole-home Airbnbs and other short-term rentals that can be operated by a single owner.

As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2, with commissioners Stuart Boley and Leslie Soden opposing, to have city staff draft changes to existing regulations that would establish a licensing process for all short-term rentals, including whole-home rentals where the property owner lives elsewhere. The license program would allow all types of short-term rentals by right citywide, but would allow the licenses to be revoked for just cause. The commission also directed staff to investigate a potential provision to limit how many whole-home short-term rentals one individual can operate.

Dual roles are called ‘incompatible’

Marion’s long history of city council members serving on its planning board is not specifically prohibited, but a 1977 attorney general’s opinion calls the two roles “incompatible.”
Readers asked the Record to investigate after noting that John Wheeler, Marion city councilman and candidate for mayor, serves on both the planning commission and the airport authority. His current three-year term on the planning commission will expire in December 2021.
Mayor Todd Heitschmidt said a council member had been on the planning board for the 13 years he’s been on the council.

(Read more: HILLSBORO Star-Journal)

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T08:04:29-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Century II or something new? Group seeks answers to Wichita’s riverfront questions

A coalition of Wichita boosters working to shape the future of the city’s riverfront has announced its first — tentative — public meeting date.

The group says it wants to put the community’s vision for the future of the east bank of the Arkansas River downtown on paper as the Riverfront Legacy Master Plan. A primary focus will be connecting the east bank with the ballpark development on the west bank, downtown and development to the north to the Keeper of the Plains.

It’s inviting members of the public to attend a meeting, scheduled tentatively for July 31. It plans other meetings to collect ideas.

“Because the sensitivity of this area, because so much of it is public land, we really believe the public needs to go along the entire journey and hear all of the discussions,” said Jon Rolph, co-chair of the Greater Wichita Partnership.

(Read more: Local News |)

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T08:04:59-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Downtown Topeka is getting livelier, residents say

Downtown Topeka has gotten much livelier since Julian Jenkins and Marcelino Gomez III moved there last June, they say.

A year ago, Gomez said, he’d be greeted by silence and a general lack of activity whenever he went out front after 5 p.m at their second-story apartment in the 700 block of S. Kansas Avenue.

“But now we go outside and there’s people hanging out, kids hanging out,” he said. “There’s people walking up and down ‘the av.’ We call it ‘the av.’”

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T08:05:23-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

CDC warns outbreaks from ‘Crypto’ parasite found in pools on the rise

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning of a rise in a parasite that can live for days in swimming pools and water playgrounds, officials said in a report released last week.

Cryptosporidium, or Crypto, is a parasite spread through fecal matter of infected humans or animals. Cases of Crypto have been rising 13% each year from 2009-2017.

Crypto causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea that can last for weeks, according to the CDC. Older people, younger children and those with compromised immune systems are at most risk when they contract the parasite, as it could lead to malnutrition.

(Read more: andoveramerican.com)

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T02:03:25-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Downtown Topeka crowd cheers U.S. Open champ Woodland

Topeka native Gary Woodland’s extended family has traveled across the country to watch him play.

So it was no surprise Tuesday evening when those close to him — Gary and Wanda Bond, Yolanda McKeever and Payne Mendenhall, among others — joined Woodland in downtown Topeka for a block party celebrating the professional golfer’s June 16 win at the U.S. Open.

Gary Bond said he and his wife watched the tournament “every step of the way.”

“We were all screaming and cheering when he won,” Wanda Bond said.

“We’re his fans,” McKeever added.

Ranson Financial2019-07-03T08:07:16-05:00July 3, 2019|News|

Developers, city leaders celebrate grand opening of The District at Lenexa City Center

Tonganoxie residents urge emphasis on city code enforcements

Shawnee County hopes to address food insecurity through creation of new council

Wakefield to begin fining residents with unclean gutters

Lawrence city leaders want cap on how many whole-home Airbnbs a single owner can operate

Dual roles are called ‘incompatible’

Century II or something new? Group seeks answers to Wichita’s riverfront questions

Downtown Topeka is getting livelier, residents say

CDC warns outbreaks from ‘Crypto’ parasite found in pools on the rise

Downtown Topeka crowd cheers U.S. Open champ Woodland

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