Shoppers at Community Builders of Kansas City-owned Sun Fresh stores can now double their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) dollars on fresh vegetables and fruit with the Double Up Food Bucks program. The program is easy to use and available at KC Sun Fresh on the Boulevard, 4209 E. 50th [...]
Community Builders of Kansas City has added three new employees to CBKC Eats, its subsidiary formed to provide healthy food options in underserved areas. It owns and operates KC Sun Fresh on the Boulevard located at 4209 E. 50th Terr. and KC Sun Fresh at Linwood, 3110 Wabash Ave. in [...]
For the third straight year, Community Builders of Kansas City donated approximately 600 turkeys to area residents. To complement the turkeys, Harvesters donated meal kits with all the fixings to complete the Thanksgiving meal. In addition, attendees had access to flu and covid vaccines, free books and Bombas socks. Recipients [...]
A Tribute to John King Community Builders of Kansas City would like to recognize John King and thank him for his valuable leadership of Blue Parkway Sun Fresh, now KC SunFresh on the Boulevard. KC Sun Fresh was CBKC’s first grocery and King led its successful transformation into a best-in-class [...]
On Saturday, May 21, Community Builders of Kansas City (CBKC), in partnership with the Missouri Black Legislative Caucus, hosted its first ever Urban Bus Tour to showcase its recent developments to stakeholders. About 50 residents, neighborhood and civic leaders including Missouri State Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove and CBKC staff met [...]
In December 2021, Community Builders of Kansas City became the owner of the Sun Fresh Market in the Linwood Shopping Center located at 3110 Wabash. The acquisition is in keeping with CBKC’s mission to ensure accessibility of quality food in the urban core, “We will continue to do whatever it [...]
The holiday season kicked into festive high gear with Community Builders of Kansas City’s third annual Turkey Drop where 1,900 members of the community were treated to Thanksgiving turkeys, food, diapers and books and 500 received vaccines and boosters. Holiday festivities continued with The Soul of Santa Tree Lighting celebration [...]
One of Community Builders of Kansas City’s strategic objectives is to empower families and communities. To that end, CBKC, through grants and partnerships with other charitable organizations, is engaging in initiatives, beyond brick and mortar development, that offer the community resources, programs and services that enhance mind, body and spirit. [...]
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, [...]
“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 [...]