Kansas City, Missouri (MO)

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After years of neglect and seas of parking lots, downtown Kansas City is currently undergoing a renaissance. Many residential properties have recently been or are currently under redevelopment. A planned entertainment district is being developed in the southern part of the downtown highway loop by the Cordish Company of Baltimore, Maryland. Adjacent to the entertainment district will be a new arena, dubbed the Sprint Center, set to open in 2007. The arena, to be designed by a consortium of local architects, hopes to lure an NBA or NHL franchise to the city. Los Angeles based Anschutz Entertainment Group has invested in the arena project and will run its daily operations.

In 2003 the Downtown population reached 15,100 people, up from 6,334 in 2000, aided by an ever-increasing real estate development converting vacant commercial buildings to loft style housing.

Downtown KC has an area of 2.9 square miles bounded by the Missouri River in the north, 31st street to the south, Bruce R. Watkins Dr. (US Hwy 71) to the east and I-35 to the west according to the Downtown Council.

West of I-35 exists the Upper Westside community and the West Bottoms (South of the Missouri river - host to various industrial establishments, art galleries, and Autumn Haunted Houses).