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The owner of a Kansas City office supply company has been accused of a $2.8 million scheme to defraud the U.S. Army.
Virgie Dillard, 70, of Lee's Summit, the CEO of Missouri Office Systems & Supplies Inc., sold counterfeit computer equipment to the Army, according to a 12-count indictment unsealed Thursday.
An employee, Roland Evans, 43, of Lee's Summit, was also charged, along with Mark Morgan, 45, of Newport Coast, Calif., and his company, PRM Technology Equipment LLC, which allegedly supplied…
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 Kansas City's close-knit commercial real estate brokerage community is about to get even closer.
The Kansas City office of CBRE Inc. has executed a 10-year lease for 10,000 square feet on the sixth floor of American Century Tower II, 4520 Main St. — home of the 10th-floor, Kansas City offices of Colliers International. The CBRE office's 46 employees, who currently have an office in the Park Central Plaza building a few blocks away at 4717 Grand Ave., are scheduled to move into their new space…
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Tnemec Co. Inc. sold $409,493 in equity in a private offering that commenced on May 13, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Kansas City-based provider of industrial coatings offered a total of $1.4 million in equity.
Tnemec CEO Peter Cortelyou said the company is not raising capital for any specific business purpose. He said it's an annual stock offering. The capital is used to cover shareholders who leave the company or who retire and need to redeem stock. Share…
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Commercial brokerage Kessinger/Hunter & Co. LC is suing the owner of the Olathe Station shopping center for unpaid leasing commissions and management fees.
The suit, filed April 23 in Johnson County District Court, seeks almost $257,000, the bulk of it for unpaid invoices that Kessinger/Hunter has submitted since October, soon after the shopping center at the southwest corner of 119th Street and Blackbob Road fell into foreclosure.
The owner, Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. of Irving, Calif.,…
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 Kansas City general contractor JE Dunn Construction Co.'s former headquarters in the East Village district of downtown Kansas City will be demolished.
The building at 929 Holmes St. — once described as a "rabbit warren with no windows" — will be torn down within the next three weeks, Nathan Pare´, property conservation manager with Kansas City's Neighborhood and Housing Services Department said.
Pare´ said the total cost of the project, which includes environmental inspection and abatement…
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The $86.7 million mortgage loan secured by Downtown’s tallest office building has been offered for sale.
The sale of the debt secured by One Kansas City Place, a 42-story, 822,391-square-foot office tower at 1200 Main St., was announced to brokers on Tuesday by Jones Lang LaSalle, adviser to the seller, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Brokers contacted about the deal, however, said they were stumped as to the “why” behind the offering. And the building’s leasing firm, Executive Hills, did…
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 Businesses overwhelmed with social media’s buffet of current options can ignore at least one dish, a Kansas City social media professional advised Thursday.
Not having a full-time social media staffer means focusing resources where the customers are, said Alisha Templeton, social media manager for Ameristar Casinos Inc.
To be the most efficient, she recommended beginning with Twitter and Facebook because they have the most users.
“Don’t waste your time on Google+, unless you’re a tech…
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 Long before he was giving commencement addresses, authoring go-to books on entrepreneurship, designing curriculum used around the world and teaching at top U.S. universities, Steve Blank was a college graduate on the brink of his career.
The decision to be an entrepreneur came when he chose to "Do" rather than to "Be." That bit of advice and nine other insights grabbed us from the speech he gave to University of Minnesota engineering graduates last week.
Here are the 10 Blankisms, for grads and…
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Three struggling suburban shopping centers in the Kansas City area will be auctioned off after being taken back by their lender, LNR Property LLC.
The three centers were acquired by Henry S. Miller Equity Partners for $70 million in 2006. They are Westbrooke Village, a 236,638-square-foot center in Shawnee; Regency Park, a 201,974-square-foot center in Overland Park; and Pinetree Plaza, a 134,750-square-foot center in Lee's Summit.
The last of the property to go into receivership was the southern…
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 Two years ago, with huge swaths of Joplin, Mo., leveled by a massive tornado, Arvest Bank's Stuart Puckett learned the personal side of the banking equation.
Friends, neighbors and longtime customers were streaming into the bank in great need.
"I remember coming into the bank about a week after the storm, and we convened everybody in the lending group," said Puckett, a loan manager for Arvest in Joplin. "It was a Monday morning, and I basically told everybody, if you haven't figured out by now,…
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 Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is one of the world's most powerful women, according to Forbes' latest top 100 list.
Sebelius raked in the No. 25 spot. The University of Kansas graduate was noted for her role in pressing aspects of the Affordable Care Act, and for her role in rolling out insurance exchanges. She climbed a handful of spots from her No. 31 ranking in 2012.
Also earning top spots on the list was First Lady Michelle Obama at No. 4, Hillary Clinton at No. 5, Nancy Pelosi at No.…
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 Video game masters will soon have the chance to be validated as the University of California rolls out a new one-year program, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports.
A new master's of science degree program in games and playable media will be offered in the fall, the university announced Wednesday.
"They will learn to be independent game makers, and they can go on to work in the game industry or for the growing number of companies outside the game industry that are looking for people wight…
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 The U.S. Air Force's new fleet of KC-46A tankers will soon call Wichita home, the Wichita Business Journal reports.
The Air Force announced late Wednesday that it had selected Wichita's McConnell Air Force Base to house an additional 36 tankers — a measure that will bring the base millions of dollars in investments. McConnell Air Force Base will then be the largest air tanker base in the world.
The only obstacle left? An environmental impact study, which the Air Force expects to complete in early…
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 Thousands of Internal Revenue Service employees will be forced to take a handful of days off as the effects of the sequester make their way to Kansas City.
This Friday, as well as June 14, July 5, July 22 and Aug. 30, 5,300 IRS workers in Kansas City will not be able to work, save for a few employees in "critical positions." That means no responding to emails or answering phone calls.
"If I get a call on Friday, I can't even look at my Blackberry," Kansas City and St. Louis IRS spokesman Michael…
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