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National Archives to Union Station
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The Central Plains Region of the National Archives will move into a former freight building (Adams Express building) beside Union Station. The group is currently located in the Bannister Federal Complex. he move will involve a 20-year lease to be signed with Union Station. "The $10 million project calls for the 36,000-square-foot Adams Express building to be renovated and an 8,000-square-foot addition built. The plan also will include a 42-space parking lot and 15 spaces in the nearby Union Station garage." Opening date should be fall of 2008. This branch of the National Archives includes records collected by nonmilitary federal agencies in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska from 1821 to 1990 and the holdings come to over 3 million cubic feet.
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2007-08-15
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Newspaper Article
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Take Interplanetary Walk and See the City's Sights
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Funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a walking tour of a permanent scale model of the solar system will start at 13th and Baltimore and end at Union Station. The exhibit, called Voyage, is based on a similar display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It's a 10 billion-to-one scale model of the solar system. The sun will be at 13th and Baltimore and end with the Voyager at Science City in Union Station.
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2007-07-19
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Newspaper Article
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900 Jobs Heading to New KC Home
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Article on the decision by the General Services Administration (GSA) to relocate 900 employees from the soon-to-close Bannister Federal Complex to the Two Pershing Square building at 2300 Main Street. Two Pershing Square was built in 1987 as part of a redevelopment plan that was supposed to include Union Station, but was never completed. The article includes details of the decision and discusses the potential impact for downtown Kansas City.
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2013-12-10
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Newspaper Article
