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It was first organized by comics retailer Chris Jackson of Overland Park, KS, and Elite Comics owner William Binderup. [5] Because it outgrew its original venue, it moved to its current event location at the Kansas City Convention Center in 2013, expanding to a three-day event in 2014. It added “Kansas City” to its signage and logo in 2017. [6]
Aspiria campus. Aspiria (formerly the Sprint World Headquarters) is a corporate campus consisting of 17 buildings encompassing 3,900,000-square-foot (360,000 m 2) on 200 acres in Overland Park, Kansas that formerly housed the world headquarters of Sprint Corporation, an American telecom company.
Naka-Kon was founded in 2005 by members of the University of Kansas Anime Club. [2] [3] The convention moved to the Overland Park Convention Center in 2012. [6]Naka-Kon 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Location of Overland Park (in yellow) within the Kansas City metropolitan area. Overland Park is located in northeastern Kansas at the junction of Interstate 435 and U.S. Route 69 immediately east of Olathe, the county seat. The city center is roughly 13 miles (21 km) south-southwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. [22]
Oak Park Mall is a super-regional shopping mall located in Overland Park, Kansas, containing over 180 stores in a covered area of 1,607,803 sq ft (149,369.8 m 2). It is the largest mall in the Kansas City Metro Area as well as the entire state of Kansas , and is split into two levels and contains five department stores.
Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. was an American asset management and financial planning company founded in 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri.It was a publicly traded company from 1998 to 2021, and briefly had its headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas, and was planning a move back to Downtown Kansas City before the company was sold.
On February 2, 2018, Nordstrom announced it would be moving from Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas to a new space on the Country Club Plaza expected to open in fall 2023. [14] [15] The plans were cancelled in 2022. [16] In July 2024, HP Village Management acquired Country Club Plaza in Kansas City from Macerich and Taubman Centers. [17]
The Association was founded in 1955. In 1975, the Association of Records Executives and Administrators (AREA) and the American Records Management Association merged to form ARMA International. The headquarters for ARMA International is located in Overland Park, Kansas.