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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected Pella Corporation of Pella, Iowa, a window and door manufacturing company, as one of eight businesses recognized as a 2016 Energy Star Partner of the Year for Outstanding Achievements in Energy Efficiency

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) issued the following statement after the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held a roundtable for stakeholders on flood insurance mapping and how it impacts communities across the nation.

Grandview Missouri manufacturer completes building expansion which increases manufacturing floor space by 60%. Burger & Brown Engineering, 4500 E 142nd Street, will have Ribbon Cutting ceremony for the new 20,000 square foot addition January 7, 2016 at 9:00AM. The Mayor of Grandview MO, Leonard Jones, will be the guest of honor.

Summit Custom Homes announced this week that the new home builder will open The Reserve at Stoney Creek for lot reservations and presale contracts this Saturday, Dec. 12. Summit will host a grand opening event at their Community Information Center located at 1620 SW Whistle Drive in Lee’s Summit beginning at 11 a.m. Lot reservations will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $20,000 grant to Mississippi State University to carry out a green infrastructure demonstration and training project.

Millions of summers ago, Kansas City was beachfront property: oceans, rain forests, palm trees and giant ferns. Not to mention a strange array of giant creatures — mastodons, mammoths, grizzly-sized sloths — stomping through town. Fast forward to the start of summer 2015 when the Linda Hall Library opens a new exhibition — “Paleo Kansas City” — to invite visitors to go back three hundred million years to see the fascinating fossil remains of life when Kansas City’s home was on the paleoequator. Admission is free.

U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Mark Warner (Va.) today introduced legislation to reduce the number of underutilized federal properties, which could save taxpayers $9 billion over the next 10 years. U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (Ohio),

According to the USDA, leaders from 34 countries gathered in Memphis for the 10th annual Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)* Rural Development Conference to discuss international strategies to address rural development in the 21st century. Topics discussed include, creating jobs, building infrastructure, expanding access to health care, and making diversified rural investments. The theme of this year’s conference “National Prosperity through Modern Rural Policy

EPA has selected the communities of Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis to receive a total of $900,000 in grants from the Agency’s Brownfields Program to assist with the environmental assessments of contaminated brownfields properties, a key step in paving the way toward their cleanup, redevelopment and sustainable reuse

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today slammed the failure of Republican leaders in Congress to reauthorize highway funding and other long-term infrastructure projects, calling the alternative short-term fixes a “Band-Aid on a cancer.”

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today discussed with Missouri’s transportation chief and a top federal transportation official the importance of infrastructure investments to make the state’s roads and bridges safer, and spur economic growth.

Award-winning KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning, is pleased to announce that KTGY Principal Manny Gonzalez, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP has been invited to be a speaker at the PCBC 2013 show, Homebuilding’s Premier Tradeshow and Conference, held June 5-6, 2013, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. Gonzalez is a frequent guest speaker and panelist at various industry events and webinars and currently serves as PCBC's Co-Chair of the Multifamily Trends Forum

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) population waiver for rural development loan guarantees on single family housing for Joplin and Jasper Counties has been extended through September 2014.

KANSAS CITY, MO - March 2, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Industrial sales and leasing activity in the Kansas City region is gaining momentum, and that demand is coming from both local and national prospects. That was the overview of the region’s industrial market provided by Jim Dieter, executive vice president and head of industrial brokerage for Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., addressing leading real estate, economic development and logistics groups.