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Title
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Station Site is Chosen
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Description
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Article reports a decision by the Kansas City City Council to locate the Kansas City Police Department's new Metro Patrol location at 77th Street and Prospect Avenue. Pending approval by the Board of Police Commissioners, work on the police station is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2006, and conclude in the fall of 2007.
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Date
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2006-01-13
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Time to Pack Up, But a Few Resist
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Description
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Article on the dispute over the the area from 26th to 27th Streets between Brooklyn and Prospect Avenues that will be razed for the new Police Department East Patrol station and crime lab. The majority of the homeowners have accepted city offers for their property and are beginning to move out, but a few residents continue to reject the offers and might force the matter to go to court. The tract was chosen because of its location and affordability. Almost half of the area already consisted of vacant lots or buildings.
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Date
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2012-07-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Prospect Corrider: Killings bring Attention - Bad and Good
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Description
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In the wake of recent killings in the area, four blocks each direction from Prospect Avenue and between 18th Street and Brush Creek, attention has focused on improving the Prospect Corrider neighborhood. Several articles discuss the neighbordhood's past and its current status.
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Date
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2004-09-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Absentee Owners Hurt KC
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Description
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Article documents problems associated with blighted rental properties located on Prospect Avenue in the Northeast area of Kansas City that are owned by Helen Collins, a resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and member of the city council there. Tom Ribera, contractor and president of the Independence Plaza Neighborhood Association, is interviewed and explains how out-of-state real estate investors are attracted to Kansas City's glut of low-cost properties and how their practices are negatively impacting the city.
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Date
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2015-04-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Terry Blair
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Description
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Articles from September 6, 2004, to April 25, 2008, about the arrest and trial of Terry Blair. Blair was convicted of killing six women during the summer of 2004. The bodies of all six women were found in an area around Prospect Avenue so this case was sometimes referrred to as the "Prospect Murders."
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Date
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2004/2007
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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New Hope on Prospect
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Description
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Article reports on new development projects along Prospect Avenue that are bringing positive change to the corridor. One project is the building of the Blue Hills Community Services Center at 5008 Prospect, which will serve as a community center and contractor training school. Construction of a new KCPD crime lab and East Patrol Division headquarters on Prospect, between 26th and 27th streets, is scheduled to begin in 2014.
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Date
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2012-04-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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New Dental Clinic Defies Prospect Building Drought
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Description
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News article about an exception in a "drought" in building development along the Prospect Avenue corridor, in the form of a new building at 5420 Prospect Avenue for the dental offices of Dr. Sere Myers, an African American dentist. In 1981, it was "the only new building, or even modern building, to be found for blocks."
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Date
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1981-01-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Comeback Street
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Description
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Article chronicles the state of Prospect Avenue by focusing upon three restaurants that are thriving despite the street's negative image. The author interviews Dave Crane, owner of Jim's Diner, located at 6901 Prospect Avenue, Raheem and Monica Malik, owners of Mo's Italian Spot, located at 5932 Prospect Avenue, and Dyamund Shields, owner of Chicken Macaroni & Cheese, located at 7205 Prospect Avenue. A brief history of the changing social climate and business activity on Prospect Avenue is provided.
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Date
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2014-12-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
