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Title: Tin Town
Description: There was anxiety today among the fourteen residents of the community known as tin town," which lies on the bluff and in the hollow to the east of McGee Road just south of Pershing Road."
Date: 1940-01-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Missouri State Role in Project
Description: Article describing the Hallmark-owned Crown Center Redevelopment Project, "enabling legislation" to redevelop the area of Signboard Hill.
Date: 1967-01-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Plan Huge Urban Center
Description: Multiple use development at "Signboard Hill site" including hotel complex, apartments, motor inn, and cultural center to begin with. Victor Gruen & Associates of Los Angeles and Larry Smith & Company of Seattle to do preliminary work on plan.
Date: 1967-01-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Signboard Hill Area
Description: Photo and caption about the urban renewal plans for Signboard Hill, "east of Main street and south of Pershing road" and 120 acres surrounding it "between the Union Station. ..and Hospital hill, [22nd Street] to [27th Terrace]." View depicting also Liberty Memorial and the "older part of the Hallmark Cards plant," later the company reponsible for building the Crown Center shopping complex there.
Date: 1963-02-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Dream of What Might Be When Kansas City Acquires "Signboard" Hill [and] What Will Happen if "Signboard" Hill Is Allowed to Continue
Description: Large illustrations of potential developments on Signboard Hill (later the site of the Crown Center mixed use complex) across Main Street from Liberty Memorial and Penn Valley Park. First illustration of neatly planned public buildings and facilities with careful landscaping, etc. and second illustration of unmanaged, rough-looking hill covered with large commercial signs of all types.
Date: 1923-05-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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