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Title: Fire Sale
Description: Article announces that the vacant Midwest Hotel, located at 1925 Main Street, has been sold during a Jackson County foreclosure auction to Great American Bank. A representative from Re/Max Commercial Solutions is interviewed and describes difficulities associated with finding a buyer for the historic building as well as the current state of the structure.
Date: 2013-01-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Who Should Finance Improvements?
Description: Article debating the use of the Kansas City Tax Increment Finance (TIF) Commission funds for streetscaping in the MainCor community improvement district. Although the projects have been well received, critics argue the city should pay for infrastructure improvements out of its general fund instead instead of using TIF revenue generated by libraries, schools, and the county.
Date: 2012-09-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Revamp Gives a Boost to Main
Description: Article reports on recent investments in and improvements to the Main Street District, which includes the stretch of Main St. between Downtown and the Country Club Plaza. Recent updates to the district include sidewalk repairs, improved lighting and landscaping, and additional benches and bike racks. Funding for the projects has come from revenue produced by tax-increment financing districts, as well as bond sales and sales-tax revenue.
Date: 2012-05-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Capstone Awards
Description: The 2012 Capstone Awards is a supplement to the Kansas City Business Journal, which "honors outstanding real estate development projects and transactions throughout the community." Some of the projects include the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity, Children's Mercy Clinics on Broadway and Livestrong Sporting Park.
Date: 2012-04-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Storefront Splendor
Description: Photo essay of storefront windows on Main Street decorated for the holidays. It's the "debut" of Holiday Windows on Main which it is hoped will become an annual tradition. Article includes nine color photos of these creative displays by local artists.
Date: 2010-12-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Grouop Seeks Aid for Forgotten Stretch of Main Street
Description: A group of local businesspeople has requested a blight study of the stretch of Main Street between 37th and 39th as a prerequisite to forming a property tax abatement district.
Date: 2005-06-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Ambrosi Brothers--A Cut Above
Description: Article describes the history of the Ambrosi Brothers Cutlery Company, a Midtown fixture. The Ambrosi Family emmigrated from Italy to the United States in 1957, and began sharpening knives out of the back of a truck in New York City before setting up shop in Kansas City.
Date: 2004-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Last Resort
Description: Article describes attempts by the State of Missouri to shut down the Midwest Hotel, located at 1925 Main. In an unusual legal maneuver, Jackson County procecutors have charged the hotel with ''public nuisance'' violations for creating an atmosphere of drug trafficking and prostitution.
Date: 2003-09-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Defining Downtown
Description: Portion of larger article about downtown. Includes a colored map of the 8 major districts downtown. Also included is a sequence of graphics detailing businesses and buildings of a 4-block area encompassing 9th St. to 11th St. and Main to Wyandotte St. in the 1920s, 1950s, 1980s and the 2000s. This includes 10th and Baltimore, the location of the First National Bank that will become the Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 2002-09-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Downtown Skyline
Description: View looking north on Main from about 22nd Street.
Date: 2001-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view of the intersection of Main Street and 14th Street, looking toward the northeast. The east side of Main Street from 1325 south to 14th Street is in view. Signs painted on the buildings are visible for "Haglage & Hawken" retail furniture store and another which says "Come See River Quay."
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view of the west side of Main Street looking to the south from 10th Street. View includes an elevated crosswalk or skywalk. Included in the view is the parking garage where the Macy's and later Dillard's store building was located, Missouri Bank and Trust Building, and a portion of Center Center Square as well as One Kansas City Place.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view looking north down Main Street at 10th Street. A portion of the Ten Main Center building is in view on the left as well as the Osco Drug Store across the street. The Muse of the Missouri Fountain is also in view down the street.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view of the west side of Main Street between 10th and 11th streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The parking garage is located on the former site of the Macy's Store, later Dillard's. A portion of City Center Square and One Kansas City Place can be seen toward the end of the street. A large clock is in view, used in conjunction with a large city bus turnaround located at 10th and Main streets.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view of the west side of Main Street looking from 11th Street toward 10th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The parking garage in view is located where the Macy's and later Dillard's Department Store were located. View is looking toward the northwest. The city bus turnaround located at 10th and Main streets is partially in the view as well as the William T. and Charlotte Crosby Kemper Memorial Fountain and Ten Main Center across the street.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view looking south on Main Street from 12th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Jones Store building is located on the left or east side and the Midland Theater can be seen on the right or west side of the street.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view of the west side of Main Street between 13th to 14th streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View is looking toward the southwest. Included in the view is the Keystone Building housing Hurst Sporting Goods and a portion of the Empire Theater located at the southwest corner of 14th and Main streets. Also in view is a parking garage with Soakie's Famous Sandwiches located on the first floor. Area became part of the Power and Light District.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view of the west side of Main Street from 14th Street looking north toward 12th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Included in the view is the Keystone Building with a Hurst Sporting Goods sign out front as well as a parking garage, and Soakie's Famous Sandwiches. A portion of the Midland Theater and the One Kansas City Place building is in view. Part of the Kansas City Power and Light District.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ponce De Leon Apartments
Description: Full frontal and partial side view; located on northeast corner of 46th and Main.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Looking northwest from the southwest corner of 46th and Main.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

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