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Just a 10-minute walk from the Plaza shopping area, the Discovery Center is a unique, hands-on, urban conservation education center located on 8 acres (32,000 m 2) in the heart of Kansas City. Open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. The city lies within Jackson, Clay, Platte counties, and a small portion in Cass County. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035.
[7] It was a promotional leaflet advertising housing development in Kansas City, with text from its library entry reading: "Buy now in the Negro Country Club District, Kansas City, Kansas, beautiful homes and building lots, splendid transportation service, bus and street car. Ex-service men use your bonus money to protect your family with a home."
Area: 2.4 acres (0.97 ha) Built: 1912: Architect: ... Added to NRHP: July 24, 2008: The Parade Park Maintenance Building in Kansas City, Missouri is a building from 1912.
The Kansas City area is a confluence of four major U.S. interstate highways: I-29 – North to St. Joseph, Missouri; I-35 – North to Des Moines, Iowa and south to Wichita, Kansas; I-49 – South to Joplin; I-70 – East to St. Louis and west to Topeka, Kansas; Other interstates that cross through the area include:
The Northland is an area on the northside of the Kansas City metropolitan area comprising Platte County and Clay County. [1] North of the Missouri River, the Northland includes the northern part of Kansas City, Missouri, the cities of North Kansas City, Liberty, Parkville, Riverside, Platte City, and Gladstone, and the towns of Smithville, Weatherby Lake, and Pleasant Valley. [2]
According to IBISWorld, who published an article in September 2019 on the Landscape Industry in the US, the Landscaping Industry is worth $98.8 billion. From 2014-2019, the industry had an annual growth of 4.4%, but it is estimated that from 2019- 2024 the industry will decrease to only a 1.5% annual growth.
In 1898, George Kessler, a landscape architect and urban planner, designed the first fountain built by the city of Kansas City, Missouri at 15th and The Paseo. Another fountain that he designed the same year is now known as The Women's Leadership Fountain, and is located at 9th Street and The Paseo as the oldest in the city.