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Title: Westport Planning Area
Description: Update of the preliminary report of the previous year by the Kansas City Development (or Planning) Department on the projected land use for the Westport area, bounded by 31st, Troost, Ward, and State Line Road.. Comprehensive discussion of the diverse area of the city, covering trends in population, housing, transportation, etc., and needs for redevelopment and zoning changes, with numerous maps and illustrations.
Date: 1972
Object Type: Report

Title: Neighborhoods: Westport Is Back
Description: Article describing the recent residential and business migration into Westport, including its revitalization as a residential, artistic, and commercial center. Description of many of its distinctive new and historic places, including preserved buildings and homes, parks, renewed business areas, and adult entertainment stores, also with some history back to its 1830s origins and a painting reproduction."
Date: 1983-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Westport Square Has a New Owner
Description: Article about the purchase of Westport Square (the business district roughly between 39th, 43rd, Main, and Southwest Trafficway) in Westport by Bruce Maxwell, a real estate developer. Describes his goals to "increase and stabilize the daytime population around Westport Square."
Date: 1979-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Chic Center at the Spot Where Kansas City Began
Description: Story of the Westport Square business district centered at Pennsylvania and Westport Roads, designed to reinvigorate surrounding residential districts, discussing also the problems caused by such development, such as parking, with photos.
Date: 1979-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Comprehensive Plan: Westport Planning Area, 1971 Preliminary Draft, Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Preliminary report by the Kansas City Development (or Planning) Department on the projected land use for the Westport area, bounded by 31st, Troost, Ward, and State Line Road. Comprehensive discussion of the diverse area of the city, covering trends in population, housing, transportation, etc., and needs for redevelopment and zoning changes, with numerous maps and illustrations.
Date: 1971
Object Type: Report

Title: A Midtown Renaissance
Description: Article about the revitalization of Westport and/or Midtown Kansas City, including business organizations and neighborhood associations reclaiming the area after decades of post-war suburban flight, through urban renewal and architectural restoration, with photos.
Date: 1976-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Westport! The People, the Stores, the Places--from Then Til [sic] Now, It's Been Something Very Special
Description: Article about the neighborly cooperation among Westport businesses (Westport Bank, Broadway Hardware, Speyer Realty, Pryde's, Klewono Kitchens, Westport Floor Coverings, Kelly's Bar, and the Rock Shop, etc.) and residents, including restoration of older buildings, with photos. Also sections on "the morning crowd" business breakfast club at the Harris House, the Westport Square shopping center, parking lots, bars, and night life entertainment, etc.
Date: 1981-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

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