A walk through Kansas City’s urban core in 2026 gives us so many reasons to be proud.
We have approximately 35,000 people living downtown, the most in Kansas City’s history. We’re still basking in the success of welcoming the World Cup to the Heartland. The KC Streetcar extension connects additional neighborhoods and is exploring connections to even more. The Royals picked Crown Center for the team’s generational investment in a new home, one that also keeps Hallmark where its Kansas City-defining story began.
That same journey through our city also reveals we are at a crossroads with major implications for the city’s future: We are experiencing a surge in unsheltered homelessness…