PENNWAY POINT
Yet another link to the city’s industrial past, Pennway Point is a growing place that reconfigures warehouse space as an “urban playground.” Featuring miniature golf and a giant Ferris wheel that provides a bird’s eye view of the downtown skyline, the entertainment district will soon add restaurants, live music stages and a neon sign alley.
ROY BLUNT LUMINARY PARK
Want to enjoy the great outdoors? Soon you will be able to — right in downtown KC. Plans are underway to “cap” the south downtown freeway loop, creating a public green space suitable for all kinds of gatherings and events.
AMELIA EARHART HANGAR MUSEUM
Air travel is a big part of KC’s legacy, and no aviator fuels our imagination like Amelia Earhart. Her hometown of Atchison, Kansas, highlights her many achievements (and the mystery of her disappearance) in this interactive museum.
BLACK MOVIE HALL OF FAME
The historic 18th & Vine neighborhood boasts a reborn addition. The Boone Theater harkens back to the area’s heyday as an entertainment mecca. It’s also home base for the Black Movie Hall of Fame, which inducted its first class in 2022.
NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM
Before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, the Negro Leagues gave Black ballplayers a place to showcase their skills. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the 18th & Vine district is building a new space to tell even more stories about these amazing athletes and their achievements.
SOBELA OCEAN AQUARIUM
OK, one thing KC has never had is an ocean. But the newest addition to the Kansas City Zoo is the next best thing, featuring a diverse, exciting mix of otters, turtles, sharks and other sea-faring creatures in a beautiful 650,000-gallon exhibit.
HISTORIC WEST BOTTOMS REDEVELOPMENT
KC history is truly alive in the historic West Bottoms neighborhood, where the Kansas and Missouri rivers meet. An ambitious new undertaking reimagines the former hub for trading, stockyards and industry into a live-work-play-stay community with new residential units, innovative restaurants and local goods everywhere the eye can see.