As you have read in this issue, a healthy community is a top priority for Community Builders of Kansas City. As such, we strongly urge all our residents to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccination will help keep ourselves, our families and our friends from grave illness, hospitalization and death. It [...]
The 5008 Prospect Building, another of Community Builders of Kansas City’s properties in the urban community, will have space available in the fourth quarter of 2021. The two-story, 14,000-square-foot, LEED-certified building has high quality finishes and is ideally located near public transportation and within minutes of highways, shopping, education [...]
Over the Memorial Day weekend Community Builders of Kansas City celebrated the grand reopening of Blue Parkway Sun Fresh that it began operating a year ago. Members of the community turned out to commemorate the occasion and take in music from KMJK 107.3’s Darron Story, store promotions and demos, [...]
DelReese Mays is passionate about building a fun, inclusive and collaborative workplace culture, so it comes as no surprise that she is Community Builders of Kansas City’s new human resources specialist. Patty Kurth was looking for a purpose-driven organization where she could make a difference. She brings more than [...]
Community Builders of Kansas City led the pursuit which has secured funding for the feasibility study required by the city on the installation of pedestrian crossings along the newly renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard “Out of a 2017 Swope Parkway/Blue Parkway Feasibility Study, residents identified safe pedestrian crossings [...]
Emmet Pierson, Jr., chief executive officer of Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC), announced today that Shannon Hesterberg has been named chief operations and real estate officer overseeing all aspects of operations and real estate for the organization. “Shannon has been an integral part of CBKC’s growth and success, involved [...]
It is told that R. (Rochester) Charles (Chuck) Gatson, wasn’t big on groundbreakings. Grand openings, now that is another matter but ground breakings, not so much. So it was that on Friday, April 16, 2021, a few dozen people came together on the Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC) headquarters [...]
Imagine if you could do one small thing that would help life get back to pre-pandemic normal, or even some semblance of normal. Well, you can. By getting vaccinated, you are doing your part to help your family, friends and work life return to how we used to live. [...]
Community Builders of Kansas City is helping its community gain access to the COVID-19 vaccination by hosting vaccination clinics and co-sponsoring a mass vaccination event. CBKC is hosting a vaccination clinic at its retail center, The Shops on Blue Parkway, at 4401 E. Blue Parkway through August 2021 following [...]
“If you can dig a hole, you can do a deal.” This was the motto of R. (Rochester) Charles (Chuck) Gatson, the visionary who became the heart, soul and leader of Community Builders of Kansas City that the inspired Frank Ellis founded in 1991. Gatson, who died in 2014 [...]