CBKC’s success in community-based development is rooted in our model to build, own and manage over the long term. That model has well served properties both long held by the organization and more recent acquisitions. By the second quarter of 2019, CBKC’s Blue Parkway office building achieved 100 percent occupancy. While [...]
While our heart is in the urban core, CBKC goes where its story takes it, even into the minds of young adults who we want to come to or stay in the KC area and design solutions that will resonate in our community. Elizabeth Schultz, director of strategic initiatives [...]
More and more, CBKC is called upon by individuals or organizations in the community to speak to emerging issues or in other ways support advancing knowledge or engagement on a wide variety of issues. In September, CBKC President & CEO Emmet Pierson, Jr., was, as Cheryl Barnes, president of [...]
PRO Neighborhoods Award Supports Swope Parkway/Blue Parkway Corridor Implementation Plan Development KANSAS CITY, Mo. (October 21, 2019) – Emmet Pierson, chief executive officer of Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC), and Shannon Hesterberg, CBKC director of real estate development, were on hand to receive the Kansas City area’s first JPMorgan [...]
Organizational capacity is the foundation of CBKC’s strategy, requiring a strong, committed and experienced team to deliver on its ambitious plan outcomes. While Weatherford’s CFO role is not new, Schultz adds capacity in CBKC’s urban planning, public policy and stakeholder engagement initiatives and Langenkamp fills a new role in [...]
Two of the nation’s largest foundations, J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, joined Kansas City’s LISC (Local Initiative Support Corporation) in providing $400,000 to seed CBKC’s organizational capacity and other goals. CBKC is the first Kansas City-area recipient of Chase’s PRO (Partnerships for Raising Opportunity) in [...]
Bob Langenkamp Joins CBKC as Chief Development Officer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Aug. 6, 2019) – Emmet Pierson, chief executive officer of Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC), announced today that Bob Langenkamp will join as the organization’s new chief development officer, effective September 3. Langenkamp will be responsible for [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 17, 2019) – Emmet Pierson, Jr., Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC) president and CEO, announced today that the organization has brought on Steve Weatherford as chief financial officer and Elizabeth Schultz as director of strategic initiatives and community development. Weatherford brings more than 40 [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (May 15, 2019) – The board of directors of Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC) has voted unanimously to employ Emmet Pierson, Jr., as its new president and CEO. Pierson brings a depth of experience, community and political connections as well as national leadership expertise into [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (May 8, 2019) – Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC), the area’s largest urban core developer, announced the retirement of its CEO, Art Chaudry. Chaudry has been with the organization eight years. “With the recent completion of a new exciting and expansive strategic plan and the [...]