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Andrew Vaupel

Kansas City

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  • Aug 15, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Andrew Vaupel

    We're looking for the companies that develop and redevelop commercial properties in the Kansas City area for a new ranking. Read on to find out how to showcase your operation to the business community. One of the Kansas City Business Journal's newest Lists will shine an even bigger spotlight on commercial real estate developers. Despite KCBJ's longtime focus on the development and redevelopment of the Kansas City area, we somehow neglected to directly quantify that activity on our Lists.

  • Aug 9, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Andrew Vaupel

    Despite the slowdown in the residential mortgage market, here's who bucked the trend in 2023, which lenders made the biggest loans last year and who has the most local mortgage employees right now. The effects of the slowdown in the residential mortgage market hit the Kansas City metro hard in 2023. Lenders originated just $8.1 billion in residential purchase loans for properties in the metro last year, down 17.06% from the nearly $9.77 billion originated in 2022.

  • Jul 30, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Andrew Vaupel

    Three of the four stores will keep their branding when Lenexa-based Westlake Ace Hardware takes over on Sept. 30. Westlake Ace Hardware, one of the Kansas City area's biggest private companies, will aim to keep Austin weird when it acquires Breed & Co.After 54 years of family ownership, the hardware and homeware retailer will sell its four stores to the largest Ace Hardware dealer in the U.S. The acquisition is set to be completed on Sept. 30. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

  • Jul 29, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Andrew Vaupel

    Patrick Ottensmeyer, who served as the final CEO of Kansas City Southern from 2015 until April 2023, has died. He joined the former Kansas City-based railroad company in 2006, eventually seeing through the merger that creates Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Patrick Ottensmeyer, who served as the final CEO of Kansas City Southern, has died. He was 67.

  • Jul 23, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Andrew Vaupel

    We're looking for businesses that are owned and operated by employees for a new ranking. Read on to find out how to showcase your operation to the business community. Do the workers at your company enjoy the perks of employee ownership? Kansas City is a hotbed for employee-owned companies, especially in architecture, engineering and construction. Need proof?

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Andrew Vaupel
Andrew Vaupel @vaupelKCBJ
14 Feb 24

The 2024 #SuperBowl parade is 20 minutes from kickoff. Here's a look at the celebration in downtown #KCMO from above. #Chiefs https://t.co/I74j3c0Rdz

Andrew Vaupel
Andrew Vaupel @vaupelKCBJ
13 Feb 24

RT @KCBJ_Ellen: Here are some of the buildings in the Crossroads that would be torn down to build a new @Royals downtown baseball stadium,…

Andrew Vaupel
Andrew Vaupel @vaupelKCBJ
13 Feb 24

RT @KCBJ_Thomas: The Royals’ proposed ballpark boundaries in the East Crossroads are precisely what we reported weeks ago, in this property…