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The developer of the Mission Gateway project wants $30 million in public financing to complement about $140 million in private money for the long-awaited mixed-use development. The Cameron Group LLC has proposed that the city of Mis-
sion help jump-start the project at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Johnson Drive by issuing bonds to be repaid by tax increment financing and a community improvement district. Tax increment financing would redirect increases in sales and economic development taxes from the project, and a community improvement district
units, and other entertainment and restaurant venues. An aquarium and hotel included in previous plans were dropped earlier this year when The Cameron Group’s Tom Valenti said the market had soured for sales tax revenue (STAR) bonds. The bond program is meant to assist attractions that will draw visitors from outside Kansas.
would allow an increase in sales taxes within district boundaries. A public hearing is set for Oct. 17 at Mission City Hall to discuss the project’s financial proposal. Mission Gateway has gone through various iterations since the Mission Mall was torn down to make way for a modern development. The New York-based developer’s latest plan includes a Walmart Supercenter, a Sprouts Farmers Market, 300 apartment
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McDonnell exit elicits praise, relief
AWG faces boomerang suit in dispute with egg producers BY PAUL KOEPP | STAFF WRITER
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When Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. jumped into a lawsuit alleging price-fixing against the egg industry, it may have had visions of a windfall over easy. And in December, when the Kansas City, Kan., grocery store co-op got its suit removed from a consolidated federal case to stand alone before presumably more sympathetic jurors and judges on its home turf in Wyandotte County, that payout looked even tastier. AWG claimed that egg producers reduced output to boost prices. But that home cooking might not be all it was cracked up to be now that egg producers — armed with a potent recent Kansas Supreme Court decision, plus an AWG attorney’s legislative testimony — struck back with a counterclaim, alleging that AWG itself is guilty of an anti-competitive scheme with its “pa-
Markets see less value in DST civic involvement BY ALYSON RALETZ | STAFF WRITER
Tom McDonnell’s community involvement and contributions to the area real estate scene have won him praise in Kansas City. These same activities probably played into his rapid departure as CEO of DST Systems Inc., according to an analyst covering the company. McDonnell, the Kansas City dataprocessing company’s longtime CEO, moved out of the position Sept. 12, naming a relative newcomer to DST McDonnell as his successor. Stephen Hooley, whom McDonnell brought on in 2009 as the company’s COO and president, became DST’s new CEO the day of the announcement. The company said at the same time that McDonnell would stay at the company, in the role of non-executive chairman, only through the end of December. “It suggests that there may have been some level of disagreement
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Tom McDonnell’s departure as CEO of DST Systems Inc. is a mixed bag for Kansas City. McDonnell and Phil Kirk were charged with finding a way to bring back the Quality Hill and Garment District areas. This team sparked the revival of Downtown by constructing new buildings and filling them. They added important fuel to the fire by making money from TIF plans tied to their projects available to help neighboring owners improve their holdings. The question is whether McDonnell’s successor as CEO will be as willing to have the company continue as a civic-minded developer and property owner.
Saint Luke’s Health System is beginning to flesh out the details of an internal campaign looking to cut costs and increase performance. Dubbed “Focus 2015,” the effort is being led by teams of more than 100 Saint Luke’s hospital and clinic employees reviewing all aspects of the health system with a goal of saving $100 million either through reductions or improved efficiency.
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A trial in the long-running hot fuel litigation ended Sept. 16 with a colorful allusion to “The Wizard of Oz.” Plaintiff’s attorney Bob Horn of Horn Aylward & Bandy LLC said gasoline retailers knowingly sell fuel that exceeds the industry standard of 60 degrees. A batch of suits alleging that the warm, expanded gas shortchanges consumers by billions was consolidated in KCK. “These companies have acted like the wizard of Oz,” Horn told the 10-person jury. “They tell you what they think you should know and hide behind the curtain.” Brad Bodamer, a Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP attorney for the remaining defendants, said the companies simply sell gas by the gallon without regard to temperature. “That’s the way it’s been done since cars were invented,” he said.
In the Sept. 17 print edition, I wrote about Bill Thomas, a pioneer in Kansas City’s investment-banking scene who died in July, leaving vacant the senior managing partner role at TGP Investments LLC. He was so influential that it was easy to find people willing to share stories about him. They painted a picture of Thomas’ key role in the evolution of KC’s financial services market. My print story focused on Thomas’ influential business exploits, but limited space meant I had to leave out great stories that illuminated his personality. Go online to check them out.
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Truck dealer motors from KC to Leawood Murphy-Hoffman renovates medical office By Steve Vockrodt | Staff Writer
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Kansas City heavy-duty truck dealer Murphy-Hoffman Co. is moving its headquarters and about 100 employees to an unlikely destination: a Leawood medical office building. On Oct. 1, the company plans to move into the newly renovated 22,090-square-foot Tomahawk
Creek Medical Office Building at 11120 Tomahawk Creek Parkway in Leawood from its current location at 1524 N. Corrington Ave. in Kansas City. Murphy-Hoffman bought the specialized medical building in July and has converted it into one suitable for a corporate setting. Company officials could not be
reached to discuss the move. Murphy-Hoffman is a relatively quiet but big company in Kansas City. It has 2,345 employees in 10 states, including about 395 in various places locally. Its move is the latest in the metro area’s economic development Border War, though it’s not clear whether Murphy-Hoffman has pursued incentives. Leawood Mayor Peggy Dunn said the company did not approach the
city for economic development incentives. Kansas has not announced any benefits. “We’re always thrilled to have a headquarters in our community,” Dunn said. Although the precise sale price was not immediately available, a broker familiar with the deal quoted a $182-per-square-foot rate, which would push the total to slightly more SEE truck | 30
Perceptive benefits from shared vision Lexmark deal advances both companies’ goals By alyson raletz | Staff Writer
Scott Coons, CEO of Perceptive Software LLC, said he was in the Atlanta airport when he first heard from Lexmark International Inc. “We got a call out of the blue, and it went something like, ‘We’re interested in a strategic conversation,’” Coons said. His response: “Well, if that means acquisition, I’m not interested.” He became interested when he realized that the Kentucky company known mainly as a printer manufacturer could help Perceptive realize its dreams of global expansion. Lexmark’s $280 million purchase of Perceptive in 2010 added fuel to already rapid growth. The latest sign of that growth — and expectations that it will continue — came Sept. 18, when Perceptive broke ground on a 240,000-square-foot headquarters in Lenexa. The building, to be completed in 2014, is double the size of Perceptive’s present headquarters in Shawnee. On the day of the groundbreaking, Coons sat at a conference table with Lexmark CEO Paul Rooke, whom he jokingly described as his first boss. Coons, known for running a jeans-friendly company whose offices feature a slide and dodgeball court, was in slacks and a jacket (no tie), just like Rooke. “It’s very rare ... that a company will say we want to buy you to grow you, and then they actually do what they say they’re going to do,” said Coons, now a vice president of Lexmark. “And that’s exactly what happened here. We feel like everything we were told has happened.”
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Paul Rooke (left), CEO of Lexmark International Inc., and Scott Coons, CEO of Perceptive Software LLC, share a laugh while discussing Lexmark’s $280 million acquisition. Both sides of the transaction are benefiting from the 2010 purchase.
Perceptive’s revenue shot up from $3.7 million in 2000 to $84 million in 2009, and it had 527 employees when it sold to Lexmark. Since then, its workforce has climbed to more than 1,200, including 700 locally. Revenue hit $100 million last year and should increase again in 2012. Coons said he was on his way to the Netherlands, where Perceptive planned to open an office, when he got that first
call from Lexmark. Although the company already was growing, it would be tough to handle an international expansion with the resources of a still-young company. He originally wanted Lexmark as a client partner but agreed to meet with the company’s executives. Coons said he was impressed with their technical expertise and straightforward approach.
Rooke said Lexmark was attracted to Perceptive’s attention to detail with customers and its depth in some vertical industries, such as health care, that were weak points for Lexmark. “Clearly, we wanted to move to this solutions space, not out of printing, but expanding out of printing into a higher valSEE PERCEPTIVE | 30
Lead Bank hire signals readiness to branch out in KC
Bynum gets kudos for job at First Community Bank by James Dornbrook | staff writer
When Lead Bank hired Greg Bynum as its new president, it was sending a message to the Kansas City metropolitan area: It plans to grow. Bynum, who started at Lead Bank on Sept. 10, is the former president of First
Community Bank, a $609 million-asset bank based in Lee’s Summit with eight branches throughout the metro area. Lead Bank, by comparison, has $84.3 million in assets and one local branch in Lee’s Summit. Josh Rowland, vice chairman of Lead Bank, said the bank brought on Bynum to boost its presence in the Kansas City area and particularly in Eastern Jack- Rowland
son County. Rowland is the son of Lead Bank Chairman Landon Rowland, former chairman and CEO of Kansas City Southern. “There is a real statement that we’re making here, bringing on board a person with the experience and track record of growing a community financial institution,” Josh Rowland said. “We absolutely aim to be a significant player in the business community throughout this market. I don’t think there is anybody in town better positioned to help us do that
from our flagship location in Lee’s Summit than Greg Bynum.” Rowland said Lead Bank plans to announce a new branch location in Kansas City’s Midtown area in the next few weeks. The bank also is negotiating for a location in the Crossroads Arts District and is looking at opportunities in Johnson County. Rowland said Lead Bank hopes to tap into Bynum’s three decades of experiSEE BANK | 30
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KBA incubator nears full; leasable space breaks even by david twiddy | staff writer
A forensic audit released in January raised serious questions about the operation of the Kansas Bioscience Authority’s business incubator in Olathe. In particular, BKD LLP auditors noted that the 12,000 square feet set aside to house life science startups was mostly empty and that the space could post annual losses for years. Nine months later, the KBA’s Venture Accelerator, which opened in June 2011, is about 85 percent filled, and the leasable space is breaking even. The biggest gain came in the summer when animal vaccine developer Ceva Biomune signed a lease for nearly 6,000 square feet of office and lab space for 30 workers. The move is temporary as Ceva expands its research and development facility in Lenexa and plans to move back in a year. Altogether, 10 companies employing 48 call the Venture Accelerator home. KBA interim CEO David Vranicar said he understands the auditors’ skepticism. He said they were using outdated business plans that expected $200,000 annual deficits until June 2016. He said the actual performance shows that the KBA has been a good steward and successful in signing up tenants for the $14.1 million facility, which also houses the statefunded authority’s headquarters. “I feel more confident that there is a
need for this kind of space in our bioscience world in Kansas,� he said. “I think the fact that we’ve been able to attract the number of tenants that we have in a relatively short time, in a very down economy, speaks to that.� Nick Franano, CEO of Novita Therapeutics, has been in the incubator from the beginning and already has spun off two smaller companies to take advantage of technology his firm has developed to treat cerebral aneurysms and endstage renal diseases. He said he’s been happy with the building’s management and the many people he can meet with when they visit KBA’s ofFranano fices or attend KBA-sponsored events in the building. “I’m not at all surprised that, over the course of the year, the amount of leased space has increased,� said Franano, whose company has received commitments for $900,000 in KBA grants. “It’s like any business where you open your doors, and it takes a while for people to know you’re there and be in a position to move.� The KBA was created in 2004 to oversee a $581 million pot of tax dollars set aside to help build up the state’s life sciences industry. davidtwiddy@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2204 | Twitter: @dtwiddy71
Use of trauma-informed care spreads among KC providers by david twiddy | staff writer
A new form of treatment for people with lingering childhood abuse or violent experiences is spreading among health care providers in Kansas City. Called trauma-informed care, the treatment involves caregivers — doctors, therapists or police officers — being more aware of how a person’s past neglect influences current behavior or health. Developed in the mid-1990s, traumainformed care has gained momentum in recent years as researchers have shown that tailoring treatment to accommodate past trauma leads to better outcomes for recipients and less violence and workplace stress for caregivers. “It really is about a mind shift,� said Marsha Morgan, COO of behavioral health at Truman Medical Centers, which began training its staff on trauma-informed care about a year and a half ago. “One of the things we’ve promoted as we’ve done training is to help the health care provider understand Morgan that what we see as the patient’s problem is really their solution to life experiences.� For example, obesity and drug abuse are two chronic conditions that can be influenced by trauma. By working on the underlying damage brought on by abuse, providers can have a better chance at
solving the health problem. Also, by talking with a patient about past trauma, nurses can avoid causing discomfort or anxiety — such as placing a mask over the patient’s face or closing the door to an exam room. Morgan is part of a committee pushing the lessons of trauma-informed care into the community, such as schools and law enforcement, and plans a communitywide conference in January. Valorie Carson, community planning director for the United Community Services of Johnson County, leads a similar task force on the Kansas side, primarily focusing on the court system and those working with juvenile offenders and child behavioral experts. Carson said research shows that mental health units using trauma-informed care see steady declines in assaults on staff as well as less use of restraints. “We hope that as more of these organizations implement trauma-informed care and see better outcomes, other organizations will step forward,� she said. Several local organizations working with children already use trauma-informed care and have seen big benefits. Janine Hron, CEO of Crittenton Children’s Center, noted that dealing with trauma earlier in life would avoid costly therapy and job-related problems later. “It’s much more practical and more productive to focus on it now,� she said. davidtwiddy@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2204 | Twitter: @dtwiddy71
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KCATA plans to transfer fleet from diesel to natural gas BY DAVID TWIDDY | STAFF WRITER
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority is betting a switch from diesel to natural gas to power its buses will deliver big fuel savings and less pollution. The KCATA this summer signed off on a plan to replace all 269 buses during the next 15 years with vehicles powered by compressed natural gas, or CNG. The plan got a boost Sept. 14 when the authority received a $1.4 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to buy its first four CNG buses, which should hit the streets early next year. Diesel fuel sells for roughly $3.30 a gallon, compared with $1.50 for the equiv-
alent amount of CNG. A TranSystems Corp. study estimated that a switch to CNG would save at least $4.6 million a year by the time the fleet is completely replaced in 2027. CNG also burns cleaner than diesel, generating far fewer greenhouse gases and other emissions. “It’s the right thing to do for the environment, and if we can achieve some efficiency in the process, as well, it’s really a win-win,” General Manager Mark Huffer said. It won’t be cheap. The TranSystems
study indicated that the KCATA will pay an additional $13.5 million for the CNG buses, which cost about $50,000 more. The authority also must spend an estimated $5.2 million to retrofit its center at 18th Street and Forest Avenue to accommodate a new CNG fueling station. Passenger rates shouldn’t be affected, Huffer said, and most of the cost can be covered by regular financing, as well as potential grants targeting air quality and clean fuels. “With that return KCATA PHOTO
on investment, this is going to help lower our operating costs to help prevent or minimize fare increases,” he said. TranSystems estimated the change could pay for itself in 10 to 12 years. The Kansas City government has 320 CNG vehicles, including all 35 shuttle buses at Kansas City International Airport. Fleet Manager Sam Swearngin said the city saved more than $1 million on fuel in the most recent fiscal year and has focused its CNG efforts on heavyduty trucks and equipment. “That’s where the big cost savings are at,” Swearngin said. davidtwiddy@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2204 | Twitter: @dtwiddy71
Palmer Square Capital hedges no bets with latest partnership BY JAMES DORNBROOK | STAFF WRITER
Leawood-based Palmer Square Capital Management LLC formed a new partnership on Sept. 17, agreeing to inject assets into Geneva Arbitrage Fund LP in exchange for a significant minority ownership stake. The partnership is Palmer Square’s fourth in the past 18 months, all part of its offerings in its Emerging Managers Fund. Geneva now joins offerings from Cypress Capital Management, Millstreet Capital Management and LNG Capital; all employ different hedge fund strategies. Palmer Square declined to share the size of the investment it will make, but
past investments in the other offerings ever, the stock doesn’t always reach that started at $30 million. Atlantic Asset price because the deal could fall apart, Management LLC is also a partner in sending the price tumbling to its original the deal and will send assets to Geneva. position. Geneva mitigates this threat by Palmer Square has $575 million in as- taking a short position (betting the price sets under management, growing from will drop) in the acquiring company. “Given the levels of cash on corporate $13 million in 2009, when Montage Investments acquired a 60 percent owner- balance sheets and the need to support growth to push stock valship stake. Montage Investments, owned uations, we think mergers by Leawood-based Mariner Holdings are going to be the avenue LLC, has $11 billion in AUM. that many CEOs choose,” Geneva will create opportunities to inPalmer President Christovest in companies planning mergers and pher Long said. acquisitions. Typically, when a company Gary Henson, president announces a buyout offer for a publicly B:9.75” and chief investment offitraded company, a premium is paid in cer of Montage, said Gerelation to the current stock price. HowT:9.75” Long
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Law firm Case & Roberts moves to Crown Center space By Steve Vockrodt | Staff Writer
Case & Roberts PC is moving to Crown Center to solve an office space problem, but the solution may not work for long. Good thing the firm has an option. The 11-lawyer law firm, which started 11 years ago with a single lawyer, has outgrown its space on the ninth floor of 2300 Main St. near Union Station. Next month, the firm will move its 25 total employees to the third floor of 2600 Grand Blvd. in Crown Center. Founding partner Kevin Case worries that the 10,400-square-foot space might
not be enough for long. Fortunately, Case & Roberts has an option to lease the rest of the unoccupied third floor — a total of 22,000 square feet. “I’m grateful for the dilemma, but I’m going back to the drawing board,” Case said. The firm primarily handles litigation and employment matters. Many clients are retailers. The firm has had a strong year, most recently with a successful defense of jury award caps Case on statutory claims before the Missouri Supreme Court.
Nick Suarez and Mark Long, brokers with Zimmer Real Estate Services LC, represented Case & Roberts. Suarez said the firm looked primarily in the central core for its new space but considered property elsewhere, including the Country Club Plaza. The proximity to courthouses in Downtown ultimately kept the firm close to its original location. Although Case would not discuss the specifics of his firm’s lease, he said the Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. was eager for a deal. “Landlords seem very motivated, even for firms of our size to be long-term ten-
ants,” he said. It may be a small lease in the grand scheme, but it’s probably a welcome one for the Crown Center submarket. A Cassidy Turley market report indicated that Crown Center had a 20 percent vacancy rate — 23.5 percent for Class A space — in the second quarter of 2012. That compares with 15 percent during the same quarter a year ago. Much of the increase was due to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners leaving 105,000 square feet in favor of Town Pavilion. svockrodt@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2206 | Twitter: @st_vockrodt
Broker Lanning leaves CB, joins Cassidy Turley By Steve Vockrodt | Staff Writer
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Veteran CB Richard Ellis broker and asset manager Mike Lanning left the real estate firm to join Cassidy Turley. He gave notice Sept. 17 and showed up at Cassidy Turley’s Crown Center offices the next morning to start his role leading its property management group. He fills a vacancy left by Greg Smith, who resigned June 1 because of illness. “That was a serious gap,” said Mike Mayer, managing principal of Cassidy Turley’s Kansas City office. Cassidy Turley gets a veteran of more than 25 years at CB Richard Ellis and stability in a property management practice that oversees a 9 millionsquare-foot local portfolio. Lanning joined CB Richard Ellis as a property manager but migrated to brokerage when he was assigned to help Sprint Nex- Lanning tel Corp. sell about 500 properties nationally. He later partnered with CB’s Keith Baker in brokerage. One of Lanning’s higher-profile projects was the Summit Technology Campus in Lee’s Summit. The office complex, with more than 1 million square feet, is fully leased. Lanning also becomes a member of Cassidy Turley’s executive committee in Kansas City and will assist Mayer with running the office. “I wasn’t out looking, I was content,” Lanning said. “Once presented with the opportunity ... I really thought it was a perfect fit.” Mike Klamm, managing principal of CB Richard Ellis’ Kansas City office, said a successor hasn’t been identified. “It sounds like a great fit ... and we wish him the best,” Klamm said. CB Richard Ellis had managed to wrangle a few former Cassidy Turley employees in recent years, including Gina Anderson and Brian Bacon. Cassidy Turley had experienced rapid changes in management until Mayer took the reins almost exactly a year ago. “Things have completely settled down, and we’re very excited about the future,” Mayer said. svockrodt@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2206 | Twitter: @st_vockrodt
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NKC Hospital issue: free spending, secrecy BY PAUL KOEPP | STAFF WRITER
North Kansas City has spent freely and erred on the side of secrecy as it explores selling its highly regarded hospital. The City Council voted in an open meeting June to hire Merrill Lynch as an adviser and voted in July to use Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP to defend North Kansas City Hospital’s lawsuit to block any potential sale. But it took no such public vote last December when the city retained Chicago-based law firm Sidley Austin LLP to look into whether a sale would be legal. According to records reviewed by the Kansas City Business Journal, Sidley Austin, the country’s eighth-largest law firm, sent the city a letter of engagement Dec. 2 and had billed more than $125,000 by the end of June, with five partners charging the city between $700 and $750 an hour. Despite that outlay, the City Council never voted in an open meeting to retain the firm. The four Shook partners handling the litigation bill somewhat less, between $475 and $620 an hour. North Kansas City Attorney Tom Barzee declined to comment on the selection process. Most jarring to many observers when news of the City Council’s deliberations broke in June was that nobody, not even the hospital board, knew they were taking place. The quiet hiring of Sidley Austin accomplished several objectives. It avoided the likelihood that word of a local firm’s involvement would spread, which could ruffle feathers even if the idea of selling the hospital went nowhere. The high-profile firm also gave the city a window into the national market for its prized asset as well as an accomplished partner in future negotiations. The time to maximize the cityowned hospital’s value may be now, with patient volumes declining and the threat of shrinking reimbursements increasing. Some legal experts say North Kansas City had legitimate reasons for keeping the study of its options under wraps. “If you tell people what the issues are, what the strategy is, you’re not wearing any clothing,” said Howard Wright Jr., former longtime Springfield, Mo., city attorney and now of counsel with Carnahan Evans Cantwell & Brown PC. However, Jean Maneke of The Maneke Law Group LC, an attorney for the Missouri Press Association, said there’s no exception to the state’s Sunshine Law that would have permitted the city to hire Sidley Austin last year without a public vote. The only justification would be pending Maneke or threatened litigation or getting advice from existing counsel, she said, “and neither one of those is at issue here.” Sidley Austin’s billing records offer a sketchy timeline of its work for North Kansas City, although much of the information is redacted. One of the first entries, on Dec. 6, indicates a Sidley Austin partner reviewed an “offering circular for bonds.” The lawyers spent several weeks researching legal issues and drafting memos, leading up to a 4.5-hour meet-
ing with city staff on Feb. 29 before a City Council session. In March, they discussed recommendations for the adviser role that eventually went to Merrill Lynch, a longtime Sidley Austin client. On April 27, partner Rob Verigan, who leads the legal team advising North Kansas City, had a phone call with Nick Kalm, president of Reputation Partners LLC, a Chicago-based public relations consultant working with North Kansas City. The lawyers formed a working group in May to prepare a formal presentation for the City Council. After the possibility of selling the hospital became public, the lawyers’
attention turned to reviewing public records requests and press coverage and “calls to discuss publicity and strategy,” according to the records. Because it is publicly owned, the hospital’s legal expenses in the lawsuit pending in Clay County Circuit Court are taxpayer-funded, as well. The hospital’s regular counsel, Kutak Rock LLP, has billed about $390,000 since mid-June, with partner rates between $320 and $350 an hour. Rouse Hendricks German May PC, which is helping with the litigation, has billed alFILE | KCBJ most $60,000. The future of North Kansas City Hospital remains unclear as the city weighs whether to retain or sell the hospital. pkoepp@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2211 | Twitter: @pbkkc
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TOP AREA CHARITABLE TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS (RANKED BY 2011 YEAR-END, FAIR-MARKET VALUE OF ASSETS) RANK 2012 2011
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10. 12. 11. 13. 14. 15. 20. 17. 18. 16. 19. 21. 22.
TRUST/FOUNDATION
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 www.kauffman.org 816-932-1000
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation 1055 Broadway, Suite 130, Kansas City, MO 64105 www.gkccf.org 816-842-0944
Hall Family Foundation
P.O. Box 419580, No. 323, Kansas City, MO 64141 www.hallfamilyfoundation.org 816-274-8516
Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
2700 E. 18th St., Suite 220, Kansas City, MO 64127 www.hcfgkc.org 816-241-7006
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 www.mmkf.org 816-932-1219
William T. Kemper Foundation
922 Walnut St., Suite 200, Kansas City, MO 64106 816-234-2577
REACH Healthcare Foundation 6700 Antioch, Suite 200, Merriam, KS 66210 www.reachhealth.org 913-432-4196
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
5801 W. 115th St., Suite 104, Overland Park, KS 66211 wws.jcfkc.org 913-327-8245
Francis Family Foundation
800 W. 47th St., Suite 717, Kansas City, MO 64112 www.francisfoundation.org 816-531-0077
Sunderland Foundation
11011 Cody St., Overland Park, KS 66210 www.sunderlandfoundation.org 913-319-6195
William T. Kemper Charitable Trust 1010 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64105 www.umb.com 816-860-7000
The H&R Block Foundation
1 H&R Block Way, Kansas City, MO 64105 www.hrblockfoundation.org 816-854-4361
Sosland Foundation
4800 Main St., Suite 100, Kansas City, MO 64112 www.soslandfoundation.org 816-756-1000
Enid & Crosby Kemper Foundation 1010 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64105 816-860-7000
Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts 922 Walnut, Suite 200, Kansas City, MO 64106 816-234-2577
Catholic Foundation of Northeast Kansas 12615 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, KS 66109 www.cfnek.org 913-647-0325
Wyandotte Health Foundation
755 Minnesota Ave., P.O. Box 171242, Kansas City, KS 66117 913-371-4032
The Goppert Foundation
10401 Holmes Road, Suite 222, Kansas City, MO 64131 816-942-7595
2011 FAIR MARKET VALUE OF ASSETS
2011 GIFTS, GRANTS: GRANTS & LARGEST CONTRIBUTIONS SMALLEST
$1,700,000,000
$43,000,000
$3,200,000 $1,000
$1,161,708,348
$770,000,000
$448,392,568
$235,900,000
$234,840,074
$117,300,000
$116,463,541
$103,000,000
RECIPIENT OF LARGEST GRANT
ACTIVITIES FUNDED
EXECUTIVE(S)
University of MissouriKansas City, School of Engineering
entrepreneurship & education
Interim President & CEO Benno Schmidt Jr.
$218,145,961
$8,460,305 $4
NA
arts & culture; education; health & medical research; human services; religious organizations; philanthropy & volunteerism; other services
President & CEO Deborah Wilkerson wilkerson@gkccf.org
$37,700,000
$6,666,666 NA
Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
children, youth & families; the arts; education & community development
President William Hall
$17,990,176
$553,452 $4,000
Mid-America Regional Council Community Services Corp.
healthy lifestyles; mental health; safety net health care
President/CEO Steve Roling sroling@hcfgkc.org Vice President/COO Rhonda Holman Rholman@hcfgkc.org
$47,815,000
$10,711,416
$4,200,000
$17,251,714
$4,800,000
NA NA
NA
visual & performing arts in Greater Kansas City
RE-RANKING THE LIST:
$218,145,961
Chairwoman & CEO Julia Irene Kauffman President & COO David Lady
Muriel McBrien Kauffman 2. Foundation
$47,815,000
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
$43,000,000
4. Hall Family Foundation
the arts, civic improvements, education, health & human services
Interim Executive Director Beth Radtke
$250,610 $500
Qualis Health
technical assistance & training to assist eight safety-net clinics in implementation of national standards for patient-centered medical home practices
NA NA
NA
Jewish & civic causes
$1,800,000 $500
Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research
pulmonary research; early childhood care & education; arts & culture
President & CEO Brenda Sharpe brenda@reachhealth.org
6.
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater KC
$17,251,714
7.
William T. Kemper Foundation
$10,711,416
Executive Director Lauren Hoopes LaurenH@JewishKC.org
8. Francis Family Foundation
$4,800,000
9. Sunderland Foundation
$4,647,287
Executive Director Jim Koeneman jim@francisfoundation.org
University of MissouriKansas City
capital for construction & renovation
President Kent Sunderland kent.sunderland@ ashgrove.com
$56,167,354
$2,592,102
$2,443,102 $2,000
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
arts & culture; education; community services
Managing Director Jan Leonard jan.leonard@umb.com
$2,526,300
$100,000 $100
Nelson Gallery Foundation, UMKC Foundation and PREP-KC at GKCCF
arts & culture; community development; education; health & human services
President David Miles davmiles@hrblock.com
$55,395,000
$3,553,747
NA NA
NA
civic, cultural arts, education, health, Jewish, social welfare
Executive Director Debbie Sosland-Edelman debbie@sosland.com
$47,863,102
$2,092,951
$1,660,513 $100
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
visual & performing arts; education; community needs
Managing Director Jan Leonard jan.leonard@umb.com
$2,153,822
$600,000 $500
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
arts organizations & arts programs only; giving limited to five-county metropolitan Kansas City area
Chairman Michael Fields
$118,859.52 $100
St. Gregory School Endowment, Marysville
parishes, Catholic education, cemeteries, religious vocations & human services
Executive Director Lesle Knop lknop@archkck.org
$1,855,000 $5,000
Unified Government Public Health Dept. - Radiology Collaborative for Safety Net Clinics in Wy. Co.
promote & improve the health of Wyandotte County citizens through grants & collaborative efforts
President & CEO William Epperheimer wme@wyhealthfdn.org
$37,763,000
$36,090,000
$1,366,636
$1,740,000
$1,659,000
$132,000 $5,000
Tom Goppert
NA
local medical facilities, civic projects, education
Village Shalom
grant opportunities to promote health & well-being in the Greater Kansas City area, with a priority to serve the Jewish community
Executive Director Ellen Kort ellenkort@jhf-kc.org
Vice President Autumn Markley
$35,809,728
$1,829,537
Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Trust & Foundation
$32,881,851
$2,123,000
$500,000 $2,500
Village Shalom
visual & performing arts; postsecondary education, health care, community services
Managing Director Jan Leonard jan.leonard@umb.com
$30,755,976
$1,315,000
$100,000 $2,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City
arts outreach education, alternative education, health & social services; giving limited to five-county metropolitan Kansas City area
Program Officer Beth Radtke
$23,646,643
$1,306,630
$886,834 $250
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
arts & culture; education; community services
Managing Director Jan Leonard jan.leonard@umb.com
Oppenstein Brothers Foundation
922 Walnut St., Suite 200, Kansas City, MO 64106 816-234-2577
R.C. Kemper Charitable Trust 1010 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64105 816-860-7000
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REACH Healthcare Foundation
$4,200,000
11. Sosland Foundation
$3,553,747
William T. Kemper 12. Charitable Trust
$2,592,102
13. The H&R Block Foundation
$2,526,300
Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts
$2,153,822
14.
Arvin Gottlieb Charitable 15. Trust & Foundation
$2,123,000
16.
Enid & Crosby Kemper Foundation
$2,092,951
17.
Jewish Heritage Foundation of Greater Kansas City
$1,829,537
Wyandotte Health 18. Foundation
$1,740,000
19. The Goppert Foundation
$1,659,000
20.
Catholic Foundation of Northeast Kansas
Oppenstein Brothers 21. Foundation R.C. Kemper Charitable Trust
$1,366,636 $1,315,000 $1,306,630
NOTES:
$2,500,000 $1,515
1010 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64105 816-860-7000
10.
22.
Jewish Heritage Foundation of Greater Kansas City
1 Ward Parkway, Suite 115, Kansas City, MO 64112 www.jhf-kc.org 816-561-0563
$37,700,000 $17,990,176
$250,000 $25,000
$41,513,047
3.
Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
$4,647,287
$45,436,352
1.
5.
$86,677,000
$55,442,545
TRUST/FOUNDATION DISBURSEMENTS Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Forest Park Forever
$1,000,000 $500
TOP AREA CHARITABLE TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS RANKED BY 2011 GIFTS, GRANTS & CONTRIBUTIONS.
Trusts and foundations provided information in response to questionnaires. NA = not applicable, not available or not answered.
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The man spearheading an effort to make Kansas City America’s “most entrepreneurial city” grew up and spent most of his professional life on the East Coast. But Peter deSilva has called Kansas City home since the culmination of a personal and corporate relationship with the Kemper family at UMB Bank, of which he used to be a client, in 2004. That’s when he became COO and president of UMB Financial Corp. He is active with the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, where he leads an entrepreneurship initiative at the heart of collaboration discussions with partners, including the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He’s also trying to shake up the capital community with get-togethers that have local investors meeting one another for the first time. On entrepreneurs and financial services: Entrepreneurs aren’t naturally businesspeople. We assume that they are. They’re not. They’re idea people. They’re people who can take an idea, turn that idea into a concept and turn that concept into a business. But what we learned is that they need a lot of support in running that business. ... How do you build a budget? How do you build a marketing program? How do you build an operational infrastructure as the company grows? And so, I was always interested in trying to help individuals prepare for their financial futures, and, as I’ve learned more about corporations, generally — and then this entrepreneurship component has really intrigued me. On making Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city: There’s an entrepreneurial network in Kansas City, but it’s pretty fragmented, so I’m trying to connect those resources together through UMKC, the Bloch School, the Kauffman Foundation, MRI(Global), KCSourceLink. ... Another one of our objectives is to celebrate those entrepreneurs and create awareness that they’re even here. And we still talk a lot about the very successful and very important entrepreneurs of yesterday in Kansas City, but I always challenge people to give me five names of current entrepreneurs. And more often than not, they can’t. I know we will be successful when we celebrate our entrepreneurs as heroes more than our sports figures. On a perceived shortage of local capital for startups: It’s partially true. We certainly don’t have the kind of funding that Silicon Valley has or Boston has. ... We don’t need to be Silicon Valley or Austin or Boston to be successful. There is ample capital in Kansas City to support emerging and growing businesses, however — two problems. One, the people who have the capital don’t work collaboratively, and we don’t leverage those resources. ... We work in isolation from each other, and we don’t pool our collective financial resources in the community. On connecting investors: We don’t talk to each other. I had these dealmaker dinners a few months back where I brought together 40 people who we know from public information in-
vest in early-stage startups right here in Kansas City. The first thing I asked the group when we got together for dinner was if anyone in the room knows everybody else, you go ahead and introduce them, and I’ll just stand back. No one raised their hand. If anyone in the room knows half of the people in this room, you go ahead and introduce them, and I’ll step back. My point is our funding network is not connected. It’s disaggregated, it’s fragmented, whatever word you want to use. ... There’s no database of opportunities for funders, there’s no collaboration in pooling our resources, and there’s really not a lot of communication. Those are the things we have to solve. On what he would do if he won the lottery: If I had unlimited resources, I would do something in not-for-profit around education. I think education is the most valuable thing we leave for our children and grandchildren. And those that have it succeed at a higher level than those that don’t. I think it’s a shame that our country hasn’t figured out the educational model. So, if I had a lot of money and nothing to do, I’d probably spend a lot of time trying to solve the educational problem right now. If I had a lot of money and I was going to start a business right now, I would start it in the health care space. It’s 18 percent of the U.S. economy. I’ve learned a lot with the business we’ve started here at UMB. I think there’s a tremendous, tremendous opportunity to simplify and streamline. The payments, the settlement, the financial elements around health care are very complicated. Have you ever been sick and gotten a bill from your doctor, and you can’t quite figure out what the insurance
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I have a coin collection, but that doesn’t take a lot of my time. I love to spend time with my family on Cape Cod. We have a house on Cape Cod, and it’s just my respite. It’s my place to go to recover from the challenges of the day. When I am there with my wife, two daughters and two dogs and one turtle, it just revitalizes me. It gives me time to think, to relax, to plot the next part of my life. It’s just a place where we go as a family to recover, recuperate and re-energize. Alyson Raletz
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Cobb: H&R Block looking good H&R Block Inc. CEO Bill Cobb said he’s pleased with the company’s position, having set records for tax preparation and Emerald Card use. Cobb cited the following highlights at the company’s Sept. 13 meeting: • H&R Block filed 25.6 million federal returns in fiscal 2012, which ended April 30. That’s up from 24.5 million last year and 23.2 million in 2010. • It controls 16.7 percent of the taxpreparation market, up from 16.4 percent last year and 15.6 percent in 2010. • The number of Emerald Cards issued during the past year hit a record 2.9 million, providing clients with access to $9.5 billion in deposits. • H&R Block’s efforts to shed noncore assets were highlighted by finalizing the RSM McGladrey sale in December. James Dornbrook
Bayer buys Teva animal health Bayer HealthCare LLC is buying the U.S. animal health business of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in a deal valued about $145 million. The deal, announced Sept. 14, includes a 300-employee factory in St. Joseph. Bayer’s North American animal health business is based in Shawnee
and employs about 750, with roughly 500 in the Kansas City area. Regulators must still approve the acquisition, which is expected to close next year. Teva Neuroscience Inc., a separate division of the Israeli company, is based in Kansas City but is building a new headquarters in Overland Park. David Twiddy
Vince lands $10M contract Vince & Associates Clinical Research has received a contract worth almost $10 million to research development of new medications for substance abuse. On Sept. 18, the Overland Park contract research organization announced the five-year, $9.7 million award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health. David Twiddy
Menorah nurses OK labor deal Registered nurses at Menorah Medical Center have unanimously approved a new labor contract with the hospital. The 325 RNs represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee and National Nurses United approved the agreement in a vote that took place the week of Sept. 10. The union said the contract elimi-
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etail options were plentiful when Beth Buchanan lived in Southern Johnson County. Choices thinned when Buchanan moved to downtown Kansas City about a year ago to be closer to her workplace. She said she enjoys the vibrant urban core and the variety of amenities in close proximity, but occasionally she has to leave the Downtown Loop to find better prices when shopping. “If you’re going to have a dinner party or you will buy a ton of food, you might seek out a better deal,” Buchanan said.
Justin LaBerge, a transplant from Maine who has lived in Downtown for seven years, said he often heads to the Northland to fetch everyday staples at stores such as Target and Hy-Vee. One of his main issues with downtown retail is the lack of services that will come to him. “There’s not a lot of food delivery down here late at night,” LaBerge said. A revival of Kansas City’s Downtown has brought about $4.5 billion in investment and attracted both residents and retailers. The area appears set for another surge in residential growth, with projects in the works including The Cordish Co.’s proposed high-rise tower and redevelopment of space above the Midland Theatre and a plan to convert the Power & Light
Building into apartments. New residents will bring new demand for retail and other amenities, even as experts say the downtown population needs to grow before many retailers even will consider the area. “The rooftops drive the retail — it’s not the other way around,” said George Birt, a principal with urban housing developer Consolidated Development Partners LLC. “You’ve got a lot of food service, but you don’t have a lot of real retail. You just need more bodies.” The Downtown Council of Kansas City projects that Downtown needs to double its current 17,500 population to support SEE RETAIL | 12
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Beth Buchanan chats with Steve Haney, store director at Consentino's Market Downtown. The 35,000-square-foot store is a blessing, one official says.
and sustain further retail growth. Downtown Council CEO Bill Dietrich said some retailers won’t give much attention to Kansas City until Downtown’s population increases by at least several thousand. “If we can increase our downtown population by another 10,000, our conversations with those types of retailers becomes a much easier sell to them,” he said. Birt said Kansas City’s Downtown has an advantage over other cities, where residents don’t have to fight much traffic to reach suburbs for amenities they
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can’t find in the core. A 2010 survey by the Downtown Council indicated that shopping options are at the top of residents’ wish lists. About 55 percent of respondents rated shopping options as below average, with green space (50 percent) and public transportation (48 percent) following as leading items that residents found lacking. Specifically, clothing retailers, gift outlets, and home furniture and accessory stores were those Downtowners missed in the core. Between 64 and 82 percent of respondents to the survey said they hadn’t visited any of those categories in Downtown within the prior month. However, advocates insist that Downtown’s retail and service offerings have made significant strides in recent years. The 35,000-square-foot Cosentino’s Market Downtown gave residents a central general grocer that many other downtowns lack. “We were very blessed to have a Cosentino’s,” Dietrich said. “We’ve got that going, and a lot of downtowns don’t. That’s a big amenity.” John Cosentino, vice president of the family-owned company that operates the store, said crowds have increased each year since the store opened. “I think people are more comfortable shopping Downtown,” he said. “You can see the growth of the area. Starting out three years ago, it was not enough.” He wants to see more apartments in Downtown that would complement the daytime traffic that business and government employers bring to the store, though hotels to support larger conventions is higher on his priority list for Downtown. Cosentino’s scratched off one of the leading needs expressed by downtown residents in previous surveys by the Downtown Council. Another leading item that urban-core locals sought — a school within Downtown — came off that list when the tuition-free charter school Crossroads Academy of Kansas City opened on Sept. 4 to serve students from kindergarten through fifth grade. Its initial enrollment was 170 students. Denver, which Kansas City often benchmarks itself against, has three colleges in its downtown area, providing a built-in impetus for new bars, restaurants, service retailers and shops for the students and faculty who remain close to campus. Kansas City is trying to make progress on this front, as well. The Downtown Council and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce are pushing for the University of Missouri-Kansas City to establish a Downtown Arts Campus in the Crossroads Arts District. With 600 to 700 students and faculty, it would serve as a catalyst for more services Downtown. “It’s a game-changer in my mind,” Dietrich said. For now, Downtown serves JoCo transplant Beth Buchanan well. “It’s livable. It has a lot going on with entertainment and the arts scene,” she said. “There’s a lot of vibrancy Downtown.” Enough that she said she wouldn’t leave Downtown because of anything lacking in the current retail and service environment. svockrodt@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2206 | Twitter: @st_vockrodt
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Consider a new day in Kansas City urban living: Waking in a modern apartment, making breakfast in a kitchen complete with granite counter tops and high-end appliances. Floorto-ceiling windows in the new building look out upon a balcony and, beyond that, a view of the Kansas City Power & Light District. It’s a scene that could dawn in 2015. That’s when The Cordish Co. hopes to open a proposed $57 million residential highrise at 13th and Walnut streets. The project comes after a wave of conversions of existing downtown buildings into condos and apartments and, if successful, could usher in a wave of new residential construction. Nick Benjamin, executive director of the Power & Light District for Cordish, said the company still is assembling a team to design the project. Building from scratch will bring advantages. “You can start from scratch and design the floors and design the units and design amenities to maximize efficiency and maximize the experience from the renter’s perspective,” Benjamin said. Downtown housing develop-
er George Birt said that redeveloping existing buildings into residences offers variety and uniqueness, but at the expense of efficiency. “Those buildings, you get what you get with the layout, and you kind of make it work, and it’s not always the most efficient of configurations,” he said. New buildings offer the chance to design floor plans that use less space and are more consistent, said Birt, whose Conover Place project was the first new residential development in the River Market area. But new construction costs more, he said, and it will be the next wave in downtown residential development if developers can get rents high enough to cover costs, even with incentives. One way to do this is to market to higher-income tenants willing to pay for location as well as space. “Cordish’s tower will set a new benchmark for rent Downtown,” Birt said, setting the stage for future in-fill projects. Benjamin said rents for Cordish’s new 23-story building probably will range from $950 to $2,500 a month. That’s in line with other highend units in Downtown, said Carolyn Prince, senior rental counselor with Apartment
Search by Cort. Rents are comparable to the 909 Walnut buildings, a renovation of an older building with higher-end finishes, she said. The new Cordish tower is one of four in the original plans for the Power & Light District. Benjamin said high demand for the first building could bring work on the others, planned along Truman Road. In all, the company could offer 1,000 units in Downtown. The first tower is incorporated into the existing Power & Light District. Its fourth-floor green space will connect to The Jones pool and its bar. The building will be next to Cosentino’s Market Downtown — the area’s only grocery store — and the district’s KC Live! section. “From the very beginning of our engagement in the Power & Light District, we also saw a significant residential component as being a critical component of the final project,” Benjamin said. “What we’ve done is create a 24/7 environment where there are a variety of options to eat, shop, get groceries, go out on weekends. That kind of variety is designed to support a residential lifestyle, as well.” bhawley@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2207 | twitter: @bhawley
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nnovation helped WattMaster Controls LLC get started in the earliest days of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, and it remains a driving force for the Parkville company today. WattMaster was founded by HVAC pioneer Frank Dean Jr., who developed cost-effective ways to deliver central air conditioning to existing hotels and office buildings soon after the end of World War II. Through the years, he constantly worked to improve his system. According to the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning, Dean was the first to use computers to determine HVAC loads and air quantities. He installed the first computer-designed system in the Kansas City Board of Trade Building in 1966, and it’s still in use today. Dean’s work eventually evolved into electronic controls and remote electronic monitoring, which led him to found WattMaster Controls in 1977 to com-
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Description: Maker of electronic controls and remote monitoring for HVac systems Owner: Michael Hobbs Revenue: about $12 million Founded: 1977 Employees: 50 Headquarters: 8500 n.W. river Park Drive, suite 108a, Parkville, Mo 64152 Telephone: 816-505-1100 Internet: www.wattmaster.com plement the HVAC equipment line produced by WattMaster’s parent company, Tempmaster Industries Corp. Tempmaster was sold to York Industrial Corp. in 1988. York sold WattMaster to an employee, Michael Hobbs, in 1992. “Our business is split right now between the control of the equipment and the control of the space conditions,” Hobbs said. “Those two things come together in the field. It’s a business model that is a bit different than others in the type of business we’re in. Typically, you either build for the manufacturer, or you
build for the building.” WattMaster HVAC controls give customers a menu-driven system that allows them to configure a wide variety of HVAC components to operate in the most efficient manner possible, said Vinny Stanec, vice president of AC Systems Inc., based in Maryland Heights, Mo. WattMaster offers a midrange product with distinct advantages, he said. It’s simple to use and easy to install. It’s also flexible, so it’s a good choice for systems that face unique challenges. “It’s always easier for us to control the quality of the job when we’re able to use WattMaster,” Stanec said. “They’re also nice from the standpoint that it doesn’t matter how old your equipment is, they’ll still give you support. I often hear stories of other manufacturers, where after five years their stuff is out of date, and you need to rip it out and replace it because the controller can’t talk to it anymore. But I’ve never had that happen with WattMaster. I’ve got systems that are 20 see WATTMASTER | 18
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years old that are still working.” Hobbs said he doesn’t obsolete any WattMaster system without a lot of effort to provide a drop-in replacement. It’s why WattMaster systems are a preferred choice for many retrofits. The systems save a lot of money because they don’t require ripping out walls and ceilings to gut the HVAC system, shutting down huge areas of a building. Instead, WattMaster designs and sells control boxes that work with existing electronics that run the dampers, sensors and other devices in each room. All that needs to be done is to pull out the old controls and replace them with new WattMaster controls. Most of WattMaster’s 50 employees are engineers, which gives the company the flexibility to design controls and upgrades for virtually any HVAC system. The company has been beefing up its capabilities, hiring five new engineers since 2005. It added about 15,000 square feet to its facility, giving it 45,000 square feet in the Parkville Commercial Underground near Park University.
Hobbs said WattMaster also attracts lots of new business because of its flexible service. Other control systems may require complex custom programming, unique to a particular building. That can lock in a customer to using a particular service provider. But WattMaster systems are much simpler to use, preprogrammed at WattMaster to communicate with existing HVAC sensors and equipment and easy for virtually any provider to install and get operational. That allows a building owner to choose virtually any service provider. Joe Guckian, owner of Guckian Energy Systems, said that as control systems grow ever more complicated, WattMaster sets itself apart with simplicity. “WattMaster can do everything other companies can do, just in a lot simpler way. It makes them very easy to work on,” said Guckian, whose company is based in Pittsford, N.Y. Brian Morgan, owner of Kansas Citybased OEM Services LLC, said the secret to that simplicity is that WattMaster’s platform can work with the systems of many manufacturers. His analogy: Windows doesn’t produce IBM computers; it just makes them easier to use.
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it, claiming lack of time, higher priorities or disinterest as reasons for cultivating ignorance. And the minority who do read either gravitate toward popular or “fun” works because exposure to anything opposed to their belief system creates discomfort, which, of course, is exactly what’s needed to cause new actions, disrupt industries and win big. As Malcolm Gladwell wrote in “Outliers: The Story of Success,” talent by itself does not deliver triumph. High achievement requires great study and practice, articulated in his “Rule of 10,000 Hours.” Sadly, if senior leadership doesn’t read, you can bet the rest of the company doesn’t, either. In business and especially in sales, transforming into a connoisseur of the cognitive allows you to: Develop. Nothing in life is static. You either make progress or fall behind. “Status quo” correlates directly to “obituary,” so embrace curiosity, and explore new horizons. Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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“I think one of the things they don’t tout enough is their core software,” Morgan said. “Their software engineer, Po Lee, wrote a core software language that WattMaster still uses today. It’s based on early processor architecture and done within a very tight space of software. It allows them to be extremely flexible and nimble. Now they’ve added people with doctorates who think about how to compress and compile even more data.” Hobbs said customers appreciate that WattMaster doesn’t charge them for developing new equipment — it just sells them something that works. Manufacturers also love that WattMaster systems protect their equipment. “The reason manufacturers like us is because we don’t break their equipment,” Hobbs said. “We work with their engineering department to make sure it functions properly and works with their equipment the way their equipment is supposed to be handled. Then you can only make it do those things. It doesn’t matter how many commands you send, it isn’t going to damage the physical equipment.” jdornbrook@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2215 | Twitter: @Dornz
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father who had been laid off from his job had been watching expenses closely for months. But he’d made a promise to his two sons — twins — that he’d take them to a nearby amusement park to celebrate their 10th birthday. When the day came, the father withdrew money from his savings and took his two sons on the bus to the amusement park. The sign there read: “General admission: (ages 10 and up) $10. Children under 10: $5.” If he’d come a day earlier, the father realized, he could have saved $10 – $5 for each of his twin sons. But with a sigh he led the boys up to the ticket window and said, “Three general admission tickets, please.” The woman in the booth looked them over and smiled. “How old are you boys?” she said. “I’m 10 years old today,” one son said. “So am I,” the other said. “We’re twins!” The woman leaned forward. “You know,” she whispered, “you could have asked for two ‘Under 10’ tickets, and I never would have known.” “Yeah,” said the father, “but they would have.” Why do so many executives and employees apparently go along with blatantly unethical and illegal SwiM with conduct? The answer the SharKS may be that people don’t always know what to do when conHarvey fronted with such reMackay quests or demands. But that’s not a good enough answer. Organizations must be completely clear and specific about what’s acceptable and what’s expected. Here are some ideas on how to respond when someone asks you to do something unethical: • Explain your concern. Tell the person how you feel. Use “I” statements that describe your position without attacking the person: “I have some reservations about that plan because ...” • Offer an alternative. Chances are, there’s an honest way to accomplish the same goal or a similar one. Concentrate on that, emphasizing your common interests: “We both want to make more money on this product, and I think we can do it better by cutting some less-important features than by using cheaper materials.” • Go upstairs if necessary. This should be a last resort, but if the other person insists on behaving unethically, you’ll have to protect the company — and yourself — by discussing the matter with a trusted superior. Careful hiring can often help avoid problems from the outset. I have found a very reliable method that we use at MackayMitchell Envelope Co. to supplement our usual background screening process called the Merchants Integrity Test, developed by Merchants Information Solutions. This test will speed up the hiring process and keep you in EEOC compliance without reducing the scope of your review. It is a self-admitting “overt” test that
has been validated and adheres to non-discriminatory standards required by the EEOC. In fact, the EEOC website identifies integrity testing as an acceptable pre-employment screening tool, especially effective in identifying applicants with a propensity to commit employee theft. The Merchants Integrity Test is proved to identify applicants who are engaged in employee theft, have a high level of hostility that can spill over into workplace violence, abuse drugs and alcohol, and engage in other high-risk behavior. Honesty is always the best policy. You must be able to trust the people
you work with. The king visited his dungeon once a year to talk to prisoners. Every year, each inmate insisted that he or she was the picture of innocence: They’d all been framed or treated unfairly at trial or been victims of circumstance or otherwise were completely free of all guilt. Not one had a dishonest bone in their body. One year, the skeptical king asked the newest prisoner, “I suppose you’re as innocent as a lamb, too?” This man shook his head sadly: “No, Your Majesty. I’m a thief. I was caught fair and square. My sentence was just.”
The king blinked in surprise. “Release this man!” he proclaimed, and the thief was promptly set free. The other prisoners began shouting. “How can you free a confessed criminal while we rot in here?” “I’m doing you a favor,” the king said. “I can’t risk leaving that evil scoundrel in here to corrupt all your innocent souls, could I?” Mackay’s Moral: Corporate integrity begins with personal integrity. Harvey Mackay | harvey@mackay.com. Mackay is a best-selling author.
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Friday, Sept. 28, noon-1:15 p.m. Central Exchange South, 6201 College Blvd., Overland Park, is presenting “The Strategic Balance of Work/ Life/Health – Putting It Into Perspective” with Lynn Fountain, former corporate executive and business entrepreneur. She will share her journey and offer tools to evaluate personal and business life priorities. It is free for members and $35 for nonmembers, including a continental breakfast. Reservations and prepayment required. Visit www. centralexchange.org for reservations. For more information, call 816-471-7560. Saturday, Sept. 29, 10 a.m.-11 a.m. UMKC Small Business and Technology Development Center is having the session “Building a Market: Branding Your Business” at Mid-Continent Public Library’s Antioch branch, 6060 N. Chestnut, Gladstone. For more information, visit www.mymcpl.org/events. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. UMKC Small Business and Technology Development Center is having the session “Business and Personal Finance” at Mid-Continent Public Library’s North Independence branch, 317 W. U.S. Highway 24. For more information, visit www.mymcpl.org/events. Monday, Oct. 1, 7 p.m.-8:15 p.m. UMKC Small Business and Technology Development Center is having the session “Lenders and Loans: The Five Cs of Financing Your Business” at Mid-Continent Public Library’s Raytown branch, 6131 Raytown Road. For more information, visit www.mymcpl. org/events. Tuesday, Oct. 2, 7:30 a.m. Blue Valley Rotary is having its weekly meeting at Blue Valley Academy, 7500 W. 149th St., Overland Park. Go to bluevalleyrotary.org for more information. Tuesday, Oct. 2, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. US. Small Business Administration and Kansas City SCORE is having National Encore Entrepreneur Day, which helps entrepreneurs who are 50 and older start and grow their businesses. The event will be at the SBA office, 1000 Walnut St., Suite 500, Kansas City. To register, call 816-426-4902. Weekly. Business Network International groups meet weekly in the Kansas City area for referral networking. Only one person per profession may join a chapter. Go to www.bnikc.com to find locations and times, as well as which chapters have room in which categories.
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Sales/leases lists who is taking leases and who is making leases. These are gleaned from releases from commercial property managers and real estate firms. KC Strings Inc. renewed its lease of 4,000 square feet at Merriam Industrial Park, 9336 W. 53rd Terrace, Merriam. Matthew Severns of Kessinger/ Hunter & Co. negotiated the renewal. KC Tinting leased 4,320 square feet at Quivira Business Park, 11641 W. 83rd Terrace, Lenexa. Joe Accurso and Matthew Severns of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. negotiated the lease. City Electric Supply Co. leased 5,600 square feet at 19952 W. 162nd St., Olathe. Rob Holland and Pat McGannon of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. negotiated the lease. Ford Storage and Moving Co. renewed its lease of 23,800 square feet at Richland Business Center, 5141 Richland Ave., Kansas City, Kan. Michael Watson of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. negotiated the renewal. B&C Financial LLC renewed its lease of 3,844 square feet at 14221 Metcalf, Overland Park. Miles McCune of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. negotiated the renewal. Print Management renewed its lease of 2,115 square feet at Fairway North, 4330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Fairway. Debbie Schulte of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. and Ray Sonnenberg of LaSala Sonnenberg negotiated the renewal. Roe & Epstein LLP renewed its lease of 2,620 square feet at 10 Main Center, 920 Main St., Kansas City. Sharon Gartin and Miles McCune of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. negotiated the renewal. Big Lots Inc. leased 32,000 square feet at 601 S.W. U.S. Highway 40, Blue Springs. Sher Blandford of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. and Mike Johnson of RH Johnson negotiated the lease. Flat Iron Capital Partners LLC leased 4,290 square feet at Plaza Theatre, 233 W. 47th St., Kansas City. Kathy Lapp of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. and Dan Durkin of Block Real Estate Services negotiated the lease. Tonya L. Miles leased 1,011 square feet at King III, 11011 King St., Overland Park. Debbie Schulte of Kessinger/Hunter & Co. negotiated the lease. Quest Diagnostics renewed its lease of 1,436 square feet at 4731 S. Cochise, Independence. Jim
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BANKRUPTCIES
Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code involves liquidation of assets; Chapter 11 provides protection from creditors while a business reorganizes; Chapter 13 covers small organizations. DISTRICT OF KANSAS KANSAS CITY DIVISION CHAPTER 11 Meadowlark Plaza LLC, 11511 S. Strand Line Road, Olathe 66062; Assets, $0 to $50,000; Debts, $100,001 to $500,000; Major Creditor, not shown; Attorney, Joel Pelofsky; case #12-22484, Sept. 11, 2012.
LAWSUITS FILED
The following are civil suits filed in the county clerk’s office against businesses and business owners for amounts greater than $10,000. Information is listed by case and case number. JOHNSON COUNTY Emery Sapp & Sons Inc. v. Midland Hotel Group LLC, case #12 CV 06926, Aug. 30, 2012.
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Carole Kheder v. Thomas French Builder Inc./ Kansas City Master Companies Inc., case #12 CV 06962, Aug. 31, 2012. YP Advertising LP fka AT&T Advertising LP v. Bieber Engineering Technologies LLC/Air Quality Assessment Inc., case #12 CV 06975, Sept. 5, 2012. Ashley Clevenger v. Gregory Darrell/Davis Walt LLC dba Gold Gym, case #12 CV 06983, Sept. 4, 2012. Utopian Realties Inc. dba XPX Group v. JSK Computers LLC/Daylight Transport LLC/ Freightquote.com Inc., case #12 CV 06998, Sept. 4, 2012. Packaging Products Corp. LLC v. Averitt Express Inc., case #12 CV 06999, Sept. 4, 2012. Kathy Corcoran v. ACG Roofing & Restoration LLC, case #12 LA 08007, Aug. 31, 2012. Bank of Blue Valley v. Benjamin Cory Childress/Timberline Development Inc., case #12 LA 08052, Sept. 4, 2012. Shawn V. Taylor v. Country Hill Motors/Josh Buterin/America Ontime Funding, case #12 LA 08053, Sept. 5, 2012. YP Advertising LP fka AT&T Advertising LP v. Brick Doctor Inc., case #12 LA 08076, Sept. 5, 2012. Insulite Glass Co. Inc. v. C&S Business Investments Ltd., case #12 LA 08078, Sept. 5, 2012. Insulite Glass Co. Inc. v. Bradys Columbia Glass and Paint.com, case #12 LA 08079, Sept. 5, 2012. Kansas City Electric Supply Co. v. George Tucker dba Tucker Electric/Tucker Enterprises Inc., case #12 LA 08081, Sept. 5, 2012. WYANDOTTE COUNTY Leo-Anthony N. Ojini v. KVC Behavioral Healthcare Inc., case #2012 CV 001300, Aug. 31, 2012. Marlene Raney v. Kansas Entertainment LLC, premises liability, case #2012 CV 001314, Sept. 4, 2012. Ash Grove Cement Co. v. Kansas City Board of Public Utilities et al., case #2012 CV 001316, Sept. 4, 2012. Kathryn D. Davis v. Kansas City Renaissance Festival Corp., case #2012 CV 001319, Sept. 5, 2012. ABF Freight System Inc. v. Jacobe Furniture LLC, case #2012 LM 006683, Aug. 24, 2012. Cordry Appraisal Services Inc. v. Tri Part Acquisitions LLC et al., case #2012 LM 006803, Aug. 30, 2012. Jimmy Settle v. Works & Lentz Inc. et al., case #2012 LM 006902, Sept. 5, 2012. JACKSON COUNTY Richard Sutherland next friend/Connie Sutherland/Katelyn Sutherland/Megan Sutherland v. Carol Ann Ryser MD/Health Centers of America-Kansas City LLC, personal injury, case #1216 CV 22635 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Mark Otterstein v. BNSF Railway Co., personal injury, case #1216 CV 22645 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Robert T. Slaughter v. Bank of America NA/ Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., case #1216 CV 22648 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Kathy Bowie v. Davol Inc./CR Bard Inc., wrongful death, case #1216 CV 22678 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Ronald E. Roland v. Grandview United Methodist Church/Mary Elizabeth McDonald, personal injury, case #1216 CV 22689 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. Superior Cable & Data LLC, contract, case #1216 CV 22691 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Jacquelyn L. Hilderbrand/David Hilderbrand v. St. Marys Medical Center/Diana L. Witty RN/ Jodie Wagner NA, personal injury, case #1216 CV 22703 CC, Aug. 31, 2012. Journey M. Slusher/Matthew Slusher v. Landers McLarty Lee’s Summit MO LLC, case #1216 CV 22783 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Cole/DDR MT Independence LLC v. NPJ II LLC, breach of contract, case #1216 CV 22784 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Stephen Phipps v. Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences/Danny Weaver, personal injury, case #1216 CV 22826 CC, Aug. 31, 2012. Autum L. Schnell v. Akcire Group Inc./Kevin L. Dotson, personal injury, case #1216 CV 22855 CC, Aug. 31, 2012. Martin D. Herriman v. La Quinta Inn of Kansas City North/Q Management LC et al., personal injury, case #1216 CV 22888 CC, Aug. 31, 2012. Fernando Corletto v. Los Angeles Community College District et al., case #1216 CV 23005 CC, Sept. 5, 2012. Janice Styles v. Midwest Division RMC LLC dba Research Medical Center/Midwest
Division Inc. dba HCA Midwest Health System, personal injury, case #1216 CV 23027 CC, Sept. 5, 2012. Collier Perry/Peggy Perry v. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers America Inc./Benjamin Arbeiter/ Nick Nicholson/Wells Fargo Equipment Finance Inc., tort, case #1216 CV 23214 CC, Sept. 5, 2012. Beacon Sales Acquisition Inc. dba Shelter Distribution Inc. v. Advanced Construction Solutions LLC/Robert Ballard, suit on account, case #1216 CV 23369 AC, Aug. 30, 2012. GE Capital Retail Bank fka GE Money Bank v. R and M Office Product Corp., suit on account, case #1216 CV 23377 AC, Sept. 4, 2012. Theodore McKnight v. James S. Fields/Jacques L. Fields/Corey Orlandso Fields/Fields Bros. Motorsports & Auto Sales, case #1216 CV 23629 AC, Aug. 31, 2012. CLAY COUNTY Cynthia Foster v. RSL Funding LLC, contract, case #12CY CV 10156 CC, Aug. 31, 2012. Sheryl L. Perkins v. North Kansas City Hospital et al., personal injury, case #12CY CV 10187 CC, Aug. 31, 2012. Juanita J. Johnon v. Dustin A. Crawford/ Cobler Shop Inc., personal injury, case #12CY CV 10276 CC, Sept. 5, 2012. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Sam Truong dba Sonuel/Thuy Thi Truong, suit on account, case #12CY CV 10401 CC, Aug. 30, 2012. Commerce Bank v. Dawson Investment Enterprises LLC/Christopher Dawson, breach of contract, case #12CY CV 10520 AC, Aug. 31, 2012. PLATTE COUNTY Beacon Sales Acquisition Inc. v. Dru Anne Stoermann/3D Roofing and Restoration LLC, suit on account, case #12AE CV 02989 AC, Sept. 4, 2012. Material Transport Co. v. H.B. Construction Inc./Jason L. Hill, suit on account, case #12AE CV 02990 AC, Sept. 4, 2012. Micro-Macro International Inc. v. Mid America Instruments Inc./Paul R. Bjelica, breach of contract, case #12AE CV 03015 AC, Sept. 5, 2012.
COURT JUDGMENTS
The following are judgments issued by the county court’s office involving businesses and business owners. Information is listed by case and case number. JOHNSON COUNTY Kansas City Star v. Community Life Media Inc., $8,877, plaintiff, case #10 LA 14352, Aug. 31, 2012. Imperial PPS Corp. dba Premium Financing Specialists v. Abraham Trucking Inc., $6,547, plaintiff, case #12 LA 06317, Aug. 31, 2012. New World Communications of Kansas City Inc. dba WDAF-TV v. HMS Advertising Inc., $7,612, plaintiff, case #12 LA 06851, Aug. 31, 2012. Fountainglass Inc. v. Pinecrest Development LLC, $6,847, plaintiff, case #12 LA 06867, Aug. 31, 2012. Southcreek X Associates LLP v. Moore Financial Management LLC, $323,317, plaintiff, case #12 LA 07489, Aug. 30, 2012.
MECHANIC’S LIENS
The following includes liens filed in the county recorder’s office for unpaid services or goods for amounts greater than $10,000. JOHNSON COUNTY Claimant: Grabill Plumbing Inc., Contractor: WT DuBois Construction Inc., $60,140, Owner: LaPaloma Plaza LLC, on property at 6751 W. 119th St., Overland Park 66209, case #12 ML 00306, Sept. 4, 2012.
FEDERAL TAX LIENS FILED
The following includes federal tax liens of $5,000 or more filed against local businesses with the county recorder. Information is listed in this order: name of business, address, amount, type of lien, date. JOHNSON COUNTY McGuire’s Smokehouse LLC, 16693 W. 151st St., Olathe 66062, $9,458, (941), Book/Page 201209 001323, Sept. 5, 2012. HRE Dining LLC, 5208 W. 158th Place, Overland Park 66224, $23,631, (941), Book/Page 201209 001321, Sept. 5, 2012.
WYANDOTTE COUNTY Sophisticated Stone LLC, 3200 McCormick Road, Kansas City, KS 66115, $16,160, (6721), Book/Page 2012 R 12359, Sept. 4, 2012. JACKSON COUNTY Excel Motors Inc., 3211 E. 12th St., Kansas City 64127, $22,697, (941), document #2012 E 0094817, Sept. 4, 2012. Pronto Cash Inc., 16657 E. 23rd St., Suite B, PMB 162, Independence 64055, $17,318, (940/944), document #2012 E 0095054, Sept. 4, 2012.
FEDERAL TAX LIENS RELEASED
The following includes released liens of $5,000 or more filed against local businesses with the county recorder. Information is listed in this order: lien payer, address, amount, date. JOHNSON COUNTY Bacchanalia LLC, 12450 Newton St., Overland Park 66213, $5,044, (941/1065), Book/Page 201209 001329, Sept. 5, 2012. Mamhaf Inc., 11300 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, No. 12, Leawood 66211, $11,046, (941), Book/Page 201209 000301, Sept. 4, 2012. JACKSON COUNTY James W. Tipping & Associates, 21 W. Gregory Blvd., Kansas City 64114, $164,075, (941), document #2012 E 0094826, Sept. 4, 2012. Green Acre Property Management Inc., 3728 Holmes St., Kansas City 64109, $9,594, (940/941), document #2012 E 0094832, Sept. 4, 2012.
STATE TAX LIENS FILED
The following includes tax liens of $5,000 or more filed against area businesses with the county recorder. Information is listed in this order: name of business, address, amount, type of lien, date. JACKSON COUNTY Carniceria El Torito Inc., 4901 St. John Ave., Kansas City 64123, $22,278, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0094912, Sept. 4, 2012. Pixel Magic Imaging Inc., P.O. Box 767, San Marcos, TX 78667, $5,264, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0094921, Sept. 4, 2012. Pleasant Hill Manufacturing Co., 6720 W. 121st St., Leawood 62609, $461,730, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0094922, Sept. 4, 2012. Wing Flying Club, 517 S.E. William, Lee’s Summit 64063, $7,021, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0094923, Sept. 4, 2012. PLATTE COUNTY Kulwant Investments Inc., 1951 N.W. Ambassador Drive, Kansas City 64153, $26,871, (sales/use), document #S 023415, Sept. 5, 2012. L&L Communication Services Inc., 306 West St., Parkville 64152, $17,596, (sales/use), document #S 023416, Sept. 5, 2012. Nile Trucking Inc., 901 N. Monroe, Kansas City 64120, $11,242, (sales/use), document #S 023418, Sept. 5, 2012.
STATE TAX LIENS RELEASED
The following includes released tax liens of $5,000 or more filed against local businesses. Information is listed in this order: lien payer, address, amount, date. JACKSON COUNTY Thingsville Inc., (address not shown), $21,641, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0093922, Aug. 31, 2012. Thingsville Inc., (address not shown), $22,005, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0094131, Aug. 31, 2012. Thingsville Inc., (address not shown), $21,650, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0094132, Aug. 31, 2012. Devicor Medical Products Inc., 10505 Corporate Drive, Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158, $5,809, (sales/ use), document #2012 E 0095034, Sept. 4, 2012. Ganesh Hospitality LLC, 2305 W. 131st St., Leawood 66209, $7,125, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0095039, Sept. 4, 2012. Hospital Management Corp., P.O. Box 24406, Shawnee Mission 66283, $8,609, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0095040, Sept. 4, 2012. Sharper Image Corp., P.O. Box 3508, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, $6,170, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0095047, Sept. 4, 2012.
Burrito Joes LLC, 4644 Genessee St., Kansas City 64112, $6,956, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0095069, Sept. 5, 2012. John W. Metoyer LLC, 7128 Tracy, Kansas City 64131, $11,642, (sales/use), document #2012 E 0095070, Sept. 5, 2012. PLATTE COUNTY All For Kidz Inc., 20700 44th Ave. W., Suite 220, Lynnwood, WA 98036, $22,544, (sales/use), document #S 023421, Sept. 5, 2012. CDJS Investments LLC, 8025 Clearwater Drive, Kansas City 64152, $7,170, (sales/use), document #S 023422, Sept. 5, 2012.
NEW BUSINESSES
New Businesses/Licenses lists new and renewed occupational licenses in the area. The entries are obtained from local municipalities. For more information, contact the cities listed. WYANDOTTE COUNTY 39 Rainbow Hotel LLC, 3932 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66103, accomodation-food services. Five Stars Cleaning Services, 905 Pacific Ave., Kansas City, KS 66101, admin. support-waste mgmt. Glenns Repair, 1008 E. 26th St., Kansas City 64108, construction. Modern Colors LLC, 3269 Roanoke Road, Kansas City 64111, construction. Level Builders LLC, 6122 S. National, Parkville 64152, construction. Brazan Construction, 4733 Ottawa St., Kansas City, KS 66106, construction. Pause The Spa, 10401 France Family Drive, Kansas City, KS 66111, other services not public. AA Multiservices, 1505 H Central Ave., Kansas City, KS 66102, prof.-scientific-tech. services. OPAA Holding of Kansas Inc. (Piper School), 100 Chesterfield Business Parkway, Chesterfield 63005, retail trade. Cave Canem LLC, 3225 N. 87th St., Kansas City 66109, retail trade. Crazy 8 Store, No. 6296, 1843 Village West Parkway, Suite C-119, Kansas City, KS 66111, retail trade. KANSAS CITY C&S Detailing & Repair, 2804 Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64128, automobile polish wash and oil. Perfect Touch Auto Detail, 5646 Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64130, automobile polish wash and oil. The Clean Up Shop, 8305 Hickman Mills Drive, Kansas City 64132, automobile polish wash and oil. Alysha’s Healthy Hair Care, 2315 E. 12th St., Kansas City 64127, beauty parlor. Renes Muffler Shop, 4401 Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64130, beauty parlor. Art of Beauty Salon, 5908-A Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64130, beauty parlor. Art of Beauty, 5908-A Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64130, beauty parlor. Anointed Hands, 8020 Hickman Mills Drive, Kansas City 64132, beauty parlor. Infinity Svc., 2316 E. 55th St., Kansas City 64130, building maintenance or house cleaning. Teona Pearl Inc., 5240 Elmwood Ave., Kansas City 64130, building maintenance or house cleaning. Two Girlz 2 Hands and A Bucket, 7114 Walrond Ave., Kansas City 64132, building maintenance or house cleaning. Bic Pressure Cleaning Specialist, 7910 E. 117th Terrace, Kansas City 64134, building maintenance or house cleaning. Spectrum Building Services LLC, 9109 E. 90th Terrace, Kansas City 64138, building maintenance or house cleaning. 816 Ent. Multi Media Studios, 8116 Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64132, business services. K.C. License & Title Services, 7601 E. 67th St., Kansas City 64133, business services. Get Fitted Alterations & Dry Cleaning, 12009 E. 43rd St., Kansas City 64133, clothes cleaner. TLC Remodeling Services LLC, 2817 E. 10th St., Kansas City 64127, construction. Marco Construction & Consulting, 5116 E. 35th St., Kansas City 64128, construction. ADH Carpentry LLC, 3940 Norton Ave., Kansas City 64130, construction. Tracy Hill Studion LLC, 2511 Martha Truman Road, Kansas City 64131, construction. We Pave It Asphalt and Concrete, 7549 Olive St., Kansas City 64132, construction. The Ginger Tree, 4287 E. 62nd St., Kansas City 64130, data processing service. Contemporary Services Corp., 1 Arrowhead Drive, Kansas City 64129, guard service. Wesley Lawn Service, 5443 Myrtle Ave., Kansas City 64130, lawn service. The Joy of Landscaping LLC, 8216 Ruskin Way, Kansas City 64134, lawn service.
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Big B’s, 3800 E. Gregory Blvd., Kansas City 64132, liquor store retail. Alternative Care Providers LLC, 6301 Rockhill Road, Kansas City 64131, misc. personal services. Sundane Store, 4618 Independence Ave., Kansas City 64124, misc. retail stores. Noelias Fashions, 6310 E. Ninth St., Kansas City 64125, misc. retail stores. American Dishchord LLC, 2016 Cleveland Ave., Kansas City 64127, misc. retail stores. Treasures Exfoliating Line, 7327 Park Ave., Kansas City 64132, misc. retail stores. Ace Auto LLC, 7300 E. U.S. Highway 40, Kansas City 64129, motor vehicles service. Haile’s Auto Service, 7201 Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64132, motor vehicles service. Bradleys Auto Brokerage LLC, 8812 Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City 64138, motor vehicles wholesale. C.B.S. Auto Locator & Sales, 9425 Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City 64138, motor vehicles wholesale. Vester Lawn Service, 11616 Sycamore Drive, Kansas City 64134, ornamental schrub and tree services. OT Real Estate Investment, 3030 E. 60th St., Kansas City 64130, real estate. Family First, 7815 Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64132, renting or leasing. Salon 360, 8020 Hickman Mills Drive, Kansas City 64132, renting or leasing. Landscapers Choice LLC, 13911 Blue Parkway, Kansas City 64139, repair services. The New G&E Cafe, 4213 E. Ninth St., Kansas City 64124, service not otherwise listed. Van Brunt BP, 3027 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 64128, service station. Prospect BP, 6245 Prospect Ave., Kansas City 64130, service station. On Time Auto & Tire, 8580 E. U.S. Highway 40, Kansas City 64129, tow truck. Bros Tow, 5838 Lister Ave., Kansas City 64130, tow truck.
neW COrPOraTIOnS
new corporations lists new businesses in the area. The entries are obtained from local municipalities. For more information, contact the cities listed. KANSAS Dynamic Athletics Health & Performance Institute LLC, 9111 Flint St., Overland Park. Martial Arts of Kansas LLC, 665 S. Elm St., Gardner 66030. R&L Telecom LLC, P.O. Box 55, Gardner 66030. 4M Management Inc., 907 S. Clearwater Drive, Olathe 66061. Twistedstart LLC, 21445 W. 121st St., Olathe 66061. Karis Holdings LLC, 701 N. Sunset, Olathe 66061. Breaking Barriers LLC, 11390 S. Belmont St., Olathe 66061. 3D’s Properties Emporia LLC, 1420 E. Butterfield Place, Olathe 66062. 3TC LLC, 18876 S. Hagan Lane, Olathe 66062. American Logistic Solutions LLC, 2001 E. Prairie Circle, Suite A, Olathe 66062. Kayjay Solutions LLC, 2011 E. Crossroads Lane, Suite 309, Olathe 66062. Watkins Enterprises Inc., 18921 W. 160th Terrace, Olathe 66062. Wolf Investments LLC, 1833 E. 151st St., Olathe 66062. Chaps Equestrian Services LLC, HCR 17140 S. U.S. Highway 169, Olathe 66062. Yliana’s Cleaning Service LLC, 12926 S. Brookfield St., Apt. D, Olathe 66062. Cloud 7 Inc., 15410 W. 119th St., Olathe 66062. Copper Creek Capital LLC, 13976 W. 146th Terrace, Olathe 66062. SLM Properties LLC, 20512 W. 200th, Spring Hill 66083. Alysa Rushton Holistic Health Coach LLC, 20195 Beverly St., Stilwell 66085. Dead Tree KC LLC, 17000 Kenneth Road, Stilwell 66085. 12th Street KC Investors LLC, 701 Minnesota, Kansas City, KS 66101. KAW Collective LLC, 405 N. Sixth St., Kansas City, KS 66101. Scooters Trucking LLC, 6306 Riverview, Kansas City, KS 66102. 1905 Westport LLC, 1905 W. 43rd Ave., Kansas City, KS 66103. Sublime Consulting LLC, 2850 N. 119th St., Kansas City, KS 66109. Wally’s Body Shop LLC, 11545 Kaw Drive, Kansas City, KS 66111. Ryan T. Vandeberghe LLC, 11314 W. 74th St., Shawnee 66203. An Ink Mover LLC, 7316 Flint, Shawnee 66203. B&E Holdings LLC, P.O. Box 3913, Shawnee 66203. Pludio Media LLC, P.O. Box 3913, Shawnee 66203.
Jastys Auto LLC, 8205 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park 66204. Vaunkress Designs Inc., 9021 W. 75th St., Overland Park 66204. Dental Marketing Professionals LLC, 7206 Reeds Road, Overland Park 66204. Event Discovery LLC, 5201 Johnson Drive, Suite 241, Mission 66205. KAW Designs LLC, 5129 W. 55th St., Roeland Park 66205. MMCH Ventures LLC, 5316 W. 50th Terrace, Roeland Park 66205. Parkway Investors A II LLC, 2001 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission 66205. Parkway Investors W II LLC, 2001 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission 66205. The Light Tree Creative LLC, 9526 Meadow Lane, Leawood 66206. KC Legends 03 Club, 9736 High Drive, Leawood 66206. Bird House of Design LLC, 8432 Cedar St., Prairie Village 66207. Fav Trip Leavenworth LLC, 3520 W. 75th St., Suite 205, Prairie Village 66208. Star Flooring Services LLC, 4440 W. 63rd St., Prairie Village 66208. Liberty Flooring LLC, 4440 W. 63rd St., Prairie Village 66208. Hall Consulting LLC, 12327 Ash St., Overland Park 66209. 9018 E. 73rd St. LLC, 5255 W. 129th Terrace, Leawood 66209. Kansas Free State Norml Inc., 5619 W. 101st St., Overland Park 66209. DO Corp., 6801 W. 121st St., Suite 106, Overland Park 66209. KT Fitness LLC, 11000 King, Overland Park 66210. Dynamic Performances & Tours LLC, 7500 College Blvd., Fifth Floor, Overland Park 66210. G.R.O.W. Entertainment LLC, 11200 Brookwood Ave., Leawood 66211. Upark Condo LLC, 6900 College Blvd., Suite 700, Overland Park 66211. Budig Properties LLC, 6900 College Blvd., Suite 700, Overland Park 66211. CJ Seiler Corp., 3400 College Blvd., Suite 200, Leawood 66211. Stillwater Ranch LLC, 10111 W. 87th St., Overland Park 66212. Albatross Communications LLC, 9025 Grandview, Overland Park 66212. M&B Services LLC, 9852 W. 86th St., Overland Park 66212. Temple Sinai Inc., 8310 W. 120th Terrace, Overland Park 66213. VanQuish Athletics LLC, 8110 W. 132nd Place, No. 1102, Overland Park 66213. Bitritune Engineering LLC, 12727 Grant, Overland Park 66213. Creative Spin Furnishings LLC, 12702 W. 122nd Terrace, Overland Park 66213. Nartan Academy of Dance LLC, 8306 W. 127th Place, Overland Park 66213. DL & Associates Inc., 12128 W. Goddard Ave., Overland Park 66213. Entrepreneurs’ Organization of Kansas City Inc., 8343 Melrose Drive, Lenexa 66214. $ave-A-Lot Solutions LLC, 13405 W. 102nd St., Lenexa 66215. SRUSA LC, 10675 Widmer, No. 7, Lenexa 66215. G2G Distribution Inc., 12104 W. 88th St., Lenexa 66215. Craig Phillips Vision Services LLC, 11179 Summit St., No. 1700, Lenexa 66215. MNL Investments Inc., 12014 W. 88th St., Lenexa 66215. Monrovia Properties LLC, 12215 Johnson Drive, Shawnee 66216. Mothsoft LLC, 7120 Park St., Shawnee 66216. Marco Industries LLC, 5616 Theden St., Shawnee 66218. Danny Noonan LLC, 12700 W. 156th St., Overland Park 66221. Lomas Enterprise LLC, 7730 W. 148th St., Overland Park 66223. Nepal Children Foundation of Kansas, 6504 W. 151st Place, Overland Park 66223. DTF LLC, 15427 Woodward St., Overland Park 66223. Tapatio Cliffs LLC, 3908 W. 140th Drive, Leawood 66224. JA Brew LLC, 4008 W. 150th St., Leawood 66224. CG Dental Products LLC, 15718 Ash Drive, Overland Park 66224. HBS 9 Inc., 5605 Roundtree, Shawnee 66226. P&R Innovations LLC, 23905 W. 57th St., Shawnee 66226. Flooring KC LLC, 8540 Monticello Road, Lenexa 66227. JACKSON COUNTY Mander Professional Services LLC, 1600 N.E. Coronado Drive, Suite 337, Blue Springs 64014.
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Dittomark Properties LLC, 1040 N.W. South Outer Road, Blue Springs 64015. Center Stage Lounge LLC, 1804 N.W. Ashton Ave., Blue Springs 64015. Show Me Elite Sales LLC, 2123 N.W. Hedgewood Drive, Grain Valley 64029. A-1 Properties KC LLC, 13231 S. U.S. Highway 71, Jackson 64030. Red Sky Management LLC, 1423 W. Maple, Independence 64050. SC Funding LLC, 1423 W. Maple, Independence 64050. Simply Recording Studio LLC, 440 S. Leslie St., Independence 64050. IBS Connect LLC, 12122 Mar Bec Trail, Independence 64052. Levota Real Estate Appraisal Group LLC, 2300 Blue Ridge Terrace, Independence 64052. Kiteletter LLC, 1001 E. Gudgell, Independence 64055. Cavanaugh Enterprises LLC, 19801 Holke Road, Independence 64057. J&C Renovations LLC, 1906 S.E. Fifth St., Lee’s Summit 64063. A Plain Truth LLC, 211 S.E. Grand Ave., Suite A, Lee’s Summit 64063. Lee’s Summit Family Eyecare LLC, 519 S.W. Third St., Suite A, Lee’s Summit 64063. Easier Living Products & Services LLC, 207 N.W. Hillcrest Lane, Lee’s Summit 64063. Wheeler Property LLC, 817-B N.E. Columbus, Lee’s Summit 64063. 709 Property LLC, 4243 N.E. Lakewood Way, Suite 101, Lee’s Summit 64064. Dungeon Scene LLC, 506 N. Bynum, Lone Jack 64070. Kind Shepherd LLC, 609 N.W. Edgewood Drive, Lee’s Summit 64081. Dennon Enterprises LLC, 1415 N.E. Douglas, Lee’s Summit 64086. Law Office of Christopher Jones LC, 2317 N.E. Lake Breeze Lane, Lee’s Summit 64086. Quality Software Services LLC, 416 N.E. Viewpark Drive, Lee’s Summit 64086. Jacksonbrooke LLC, 200 N.E. Missouri Road, Suite 298, Lee’s Summit 64086. Summit Security Services LLC, 200 N.E. Missouri Road, Suite 298, Lee’s Summit 64086. The Nanninga Group LLC, 302 N.E. Oaktree Court, Lee’s Summit 64086. 30 Beach Street LLC, 1044 Main St., Suite 900, Kansas City 64105. Cosby Hotel Managing Member LLC, 920 Main St. 10 Main Center, Suite 270, Kansas City 64105. Cosby Hotel Tenant LLC, 920 Main St. 10 Main Center, Suite 270, Kansas City 64105. Goldfinger Distribution Services LLC, 1010 Walnut, Suite 500, Kansas City 64106. C&M Realty Holdings LLC, 1100 Walnut St., Suite 2900, Kansas City 64106. Camm Investments LLC, 1100 Walnut St., Suite 2900, Kansas City 64106. TKR Investments LLC, 1100 Walnut St., Suite 2900, Kansas City 64106. American Management Inc., 1626 Broadway, Kansas City 64108. BP CB18 LLC, 1908 Main St., Kansas City 64108. Elsberry Dragon Fund LC, 2345 Grand Blvd., Suite 2400, Kansas City 64108. Ace Mechanical Heating & Cooling LLC, 4345 Gillham Road, Kansas City 64110. Party Ventures LLC, 4420 Madison Ave., Suite 200, Kansas City 64111. Hanes Enterprises LLC, 4524 Broadway, Apt. 1-S, Kansas City 64111. Your Piece of Heaven On Earth LLC, 4545 Wornall, No. 708, Kansas City 64111. Felicity Portrait Studio LLC, 300 W. Armour Blvd., No. 606, Kansas City 64111. Clearway Environmental Services LLC, 3770 Broadway, Kansas City 64111. Skin Esteem Inc., 4010 Washington, Suite 101, Kansas City 64111. BKS Holdings LLC, 4600 Madison Ave., Suite 1100, Kansas City 64112. Vinebrick LLC, 700 W. 47th St., Suite 1000, Kansas City 64112. Rausch Coleman Whitetail LLC, 411 Nichols Road, Suite 225, Kansas City 64112. Wornall Road LLC, 661 Romany Road, Kansas City 64113. Steves Homework LLC, 100 E. 109th St., Kansas City 64114. Audagy LLC, 7112 Grand Ave., Kansas City 64114. PR Production LLC, 7134 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City 64114. Combined Effort - Prudent JV LLC, 8080 Ward Parkway, Suite 405, Kansas City 64114. Paradise Vapors LLC, 837 W. 71st Terrace, Kansas City 64114. Safety Chief LLC, 11211 Oak St., Kansas City 64114. Seven Pool LLC, 9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 200, Kansas City 64114.
MRE Gardner Development LLC, 9201 Ward Parkway, Suite 304, Kansas City 64114. Iglesia Monte De Sion, 408 Kensington Ave., Kansas City 64124. Leaders of Tomorrow, 3239 E. 28th St., Kansas City 64128. Reign E. Days Solutions LLC, 2145 E. 15th Terrace, Kansas City 64129. Johnson & Johnson Commercial Cleaning Service LLC, 4013 Kensington Ave., Kansas City 64130. Cascade Media Group LLC, 4218 E. 52nd St., Kansas City 64130. Walter N. Porter LLC, 4301 Cleveland Ave., Kansas City 64130. Good Looks Interiors LLC, 514 E. 106th St., Kansas City 64131. Dodson Turnaround Inc., 4417 Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City 64133. U & Umar LLC, 10000 Richmond Drive, Kansas City 64134. G&E Holdings Sales & Supplies LLC, 7905 E. 107th, Kansas City 64134. Premium Property Management LLC, 10419 Walrond Ave., Kansas City 64137. Slap City Audio Visual LLC, 8708 Manchester Ave., Kansas City 64138. Alford Image Group LLC, 13311 E. 93rd St., Kansas City 64138. CLAY COUNTY Readeway Construction LLC, 810 W. Seventh Ave., Kearney 64060. Stocksick Enterprises LLC, 10615 N.E. 143rd Terrace, Liberty 64068. Daarul Hudaa Community Center, 2411 N.E. 43rd St., Apt. 2, Kansas City 64116. Knot So Squares LLC, 27 N.W. 39th St., Kansas City 64116. McDogan & Associates LLC, 5905 N.E. 42nd St., Kansas City 64117. Fit Girl LLC, 7812 N. Garfield Ave., Kansas City 64118. Bid Pennies For Gold LLC, 6914 N. Cypress, Kansas City 64119. Look Younger LLC, 9205 N. Tracy, Kansas City 64155. NeriumLook Younger LLC, 9205 N. Tracy, Kansas City 64155. KC House Inspections LLC, 10400 N. Spruce, Kansas City 64156. Moats LLC, 13123 N. Prospect, Kansas City 64166. PLATTE COUNTY Innovative Solutions & Vision Consulting LLC, 16095 N.W. 126th Terrace, Platte City 64079. Mann Mandir Inc., 322 N.W. Woodland Road, Riverside 64150. Blank Slate Travel LLC, 4103 N.W. 78th St., Kansas City 64151. Eric McWhinnie LLC, 6507 N.W. Mil Mar Drive, Kansas City 64151. BC Village Cleaners LLC, 5201 N.W. Crooked Road, Parkville 64152. Sinergy Consulting Services LLC, 6833 N.W. Monticello Court, Parkville 64152. Get Organized! LLC, 8514 N.W. 62nd Terrace, Parkville 64152. Don Barrett Productions LLC, 10150 N. Ambassador Drive, Suite 100, Kansas City 64153.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS COMMERCIAL
The following includes transactions filed with the county recorder. Information is listed in the following order: seller’s name, buyer’s name and address, property address or description and price. JOHNSON COUNTY CH Development LLC to KC Builders & Design Inc., P.O. Box 3598, Olathe 66062, Lot 6 Chapel Hill, Book/Page 201208 012426. Christopher Dean LLC to Quick Properties LLC, P.O. Box 112, Olathe 66051, Lot 1 except the E. 222.53 feet and except the W. 344 feet thereof Kate Industrial Park, Book/Page 201208 012587. James Engle Custom Homes LLC to Koehler Building Co., 12912 State Line Road, Leawood 66209, Lot 204 Mills Farm, Book/Page 201208 012621. Shawnee Village Associates LP to Brotherhood Bank & Trust fka Brotherhood Bank & Trust Co., Lot 4 Lenexa City Center East Village and Lots 6-8/Tracts F&G Lenexa City Center East Village, Book/Page 201208 012687. Bluestem LLC to Rodrock Homes of Johnson County LLC, 9550 Dice Lane, Lenexa 66215, Lot 105 Bluestem, Book/Page 201208 012928. Canyon Creek Real Property Holdings LLC to C&M Builders Inc., P.O. Box 1033, Raymore
64083, Lot 40 Canyon Creek by the Park, Book/ Page 201208 013082. Canyon Creek Real Property Holdings LLC to C&M Builders Inc., P.O. Box 1033, Raymore 64083, Lot 41 Canyon Creek by the Lake, Book/ Page 201208 013084. Canyon Creek Real Property Holdings LLC to C&M Builders Inc., P.O. Box 1033, Raymore 64083, Lot 27 Canyon Creek by the Lake, Book/ Page 201208 013089. P. Wiley Curran to GCG Properties LLC, all of Lot 20 Walnut View, Book/Page 201208 013269. CP Investments LLC to FNBK Corporate Holdings LLC, 4650 College Blvd., Third Floor, Overland Park 66211, Lots 4D/5D/Tracts AA/BB/CC/ DD Greens of Chapel Creek Townhomes, Book/ Page 201208 013314. Hissong-Dowling Properties I LLC to Polaris Group LLC, 13814 W. 76th Circle, Shawnee 66216, Unit 5 Fenton Plaza, Book/Page 201208 013351. Michael J. Boyd to AZ Realty Trust I LLC, 13356 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park 66213, Lot 1 Old Metcalf Center, Book/Page 201208 013369. Thomas W. Boyd to AZ Realty Trust I LLC, 13356 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park 66213, Lot 1 Old Metcalf Center, Book/Page 201208 013371. Brian N. and Deborah A. Meyer to Stone Financing LLC, 16260 N. 71st St., Scottsdale, AZ 85254, Lot 52 The Reserve at Heritage, Book/Page 201208 013429. PAM Lenexa LLC to Covenant Homes LLC, P.O. Box 24122, Overland Park 66223, Lot 22 Glenabbey of Leawood, Book/Page 201208 013458. Fannie Mae aka Federal National Mortgage Association to Peak Properties LLC, 6937 Woodson, Overland Park 66204, Lot 3 Woodson Court, Book/Page 201208 013478. Fannie Mae aka Federal National Mortgage Association to Clairborne Properties LLC, 15470 Foster St., Overland Park 66223, Lot 22 Huntington Heights, Book/Page 201208 013505. Bluestem LLC to LDH Construction Inc., 15500 Parkhill, Overland Park 66221, Lot 8 Bluestem, Book/Page 201208 013551. Quadra Development LLC to Midwest Standard Homes LLC, Lot 26 The Meadow, Book/ Page 201208 013582. Stricker Legacy LLC to Property Masters LLC, 9918 W. 56th Terrace, Merriam 66203, the S. 90 feet of Lot 5 Mawn Estates, Book/Page 201209 000001. Saddlewood Apartments Phase I LLC to Red Olathe Holdings LLC, 4675 Macarthur Court, Suite 1550, Newport Beach, CA 92660, Tract 1/all of Lot 1 Saddlewood Apartments, Book/Page 201209 000034. Bluestem LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 90 Bluestem, Book/Page 201209 000090. Leabrooke Ventures LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 218 Leabrooke, Book/Page 201209 000093. 159 Partners LLC to Rodrock Homes of Johnson County LLC, Lot 140 Wyngaate, Book/ Page 201209 000107. Todd Hill Homes LLC to Estes Custom Homes LLC, 2509 W. 118th St., Leawood 66209, Lot 40 Meadows of Mills Farm, Book/Page 201209 000138. Nicholas Arthur Soukup/Elizabeth A. Soukup to Benis LLC, Lot 25/Block 5 Windgates, Book/ Page 201209 000538. Steven R. Manzi to Bruner & Associates LLC, Lot 55 The Tallgrove at the Wilderness West, Book/ Page 201209 000628. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to BRS Investments LLC, 12621 N.E. 115th Terrace, Kearney 64060, Lot 3 except the S. 5 feet and the S. 15 feet of Lot 4/Block 6 Craigmont, Book/Page 201209 000645. Chad and Rebecca Duckers to Elite Equity LLC, 11440 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Leawood 66211, Lot 8/Block 26 Roe Manor Heights, Book/ Page 201209 000655. Kansas Land Development LLC to ACDC Investments LLC, the S.E. quarter of the N.E. quarter of Sec. 17/Township 13/Range 24, Book/ Page 201209 000684. Johnny G. and Patricia J. Burnett to Norris Equipment Co. LLC dba Wiseman Lawn Equipment, Lot 44 except the E. 105 feet White Acres, Book/Page 201209 000688. Madaline Gail Chandler to Kevin Higdon Construction, Lot 5 Walmer Heights, Book/Page 201209 000744. Wilshire by the Lake LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 3 The Vineyard, Book/Page 201209 000836. Wilshire by the Lake LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 1 The Vineyard, Book/Page 201209 000840. Bluestem LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 98 Bluestem, Book/Page 201209 000843.
Wilshire by the Lake LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 52 The Vineyard, Book/Page 201209 000847. Wilshire by the Lake LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 54 The Vineyard, Book/Page 201209 000850. Wilshire by the Lake LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 53 The Vineyard, Book/Page 201209 000854. Wilshire by the Lake LLC to James Engle Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 3300, Olathe 66063, Lot 43 The Vineyard, Book/Page 201209 000879. Wendy L. Strohm to 6029 Catalina LLC, Lot 194 Mission Highlands, Book/Page 201209 001019. Sharon L. Jacques to Jeniece’s Real Estate II LLC, Lot 7/Block 2 Bel-Air Heights, Book/Page 201209 001037. CP Investments I LLC to The Greens of Chapel Creek Homes Association Inc., 4650 College Blvd., Third Floor, Overland Park 66211, Tracts A-J/L-X Greens of Chapel Creek, Book/Page 201209 001049. John M. and Elizabeth P. Glowik joint tenants with rights of survivorship to KHG Properties LLC, 16036 W. 123rd St., Olathe 66062, Lot 133 Rolling Meadows, Book/Page 201209 001075. MMIC Leawood MOB LLC to Karin College LLC, 9990 College Blvd., Suite 100, Overland Park 66210, Lot 1 Scottsdale Asset Management, Book/ Page 201209 001271. WYANDOTTE COUNTY Melvin G. and Charlene L. Bunce aka Charlene Bunce to Charmel LLC, 66 S. 18th St./1043 Hasbrook/49 S. 17th St., Kansas City 66101, Lot 5/ Block 20 Grace Hill/Lot 6/Block 12 Pacific Place/the N. 40 feet of Lot 3/Block 9 Reynolds Grandview Park, Book/Page 2012 R 12135. JHN LLC to 6636 Properties LLC, a tract of land described as being all of Lot 36 and a part of Lots 37-39 Valley Center, Book/Page 2012 R 12157. Linda K. and Gilbert L. Moore to Amy Three S LLC, 11637 W. 109th St., Overland Park 66210, the E. 25.8 feet of the N. 80 feet of Lot 7/Block 2 Trickey, Book/Page 2012 R 12160. Frist Federal Bank FSB to Lavina LLC, 3705 State Line, Kansas City 64111, Lot 40 Bombeck Place, Book/Page 2012 R 12181. Fannie Mae aka Federal National Mortgage Association to NPM Inc., the W. 1/2 of Lot 9 and all of Lots 10/11/Block 11 Adams and Kings, Book/ Page 2012 R 12214. Bank of America NA to Wittmer Management LLC, the W. 10 feet of Lot 9 and the E. 30 feet of Lot 10/Block 5 Arickaree, Book/Page 2012 R 12258. Howard Polishchuk Holdings LLC to Bolton Management Inc., 6421 Roswell Ave., Kansas City 66104, the E. 15 feet of Lot 10 and the W. 28 feet of Lot 11/Block 7 Western Highlands, Book/Page 2012 R 12259. Jake F. and Leanne T. Richardson to Green Acres Properties LLC, Lots 2/3 M.E. Alleman, Book/Page 2012 R 12299. Bank Liberty to McBee Properties LC, 520 Missouri Highway 7, Independence 64056, a tract of land in the N.E. quarter of Sec. 9/Township 11/ Range 24, Book/Page 2012 R 12352. Fannie Mae aka Federal National Mortgage Association to Daddy’s Girl Properties II LLC, 11632 Waterway Court, Orlando, FL 60467, Lot 14 Brenner Heights Acres except the N. 50 feet of the E. 125 feet and the N. 52 feet of the W. 145.50 feet thereof, Book/Page 2012 R 12354. Sydney Spencer LLC to Quick Field Preservation LLC, 14913 Mission Road, Overland Park 66224, Lot 57 Osage Hills, Book/Page 2012 R 12356. Jack Edward Bechelomayr to Graceland Properties LLC, Lot 11 Antioch Gardens, Book/ Page 2012 R 12417. Valley Oaks Financial Corp. to GNU Resources LLC, Parcel 1/Lot 64/Block 5 Connelly/Parcel 2/the S. 36 feet of Lots 1/2/Block 1 Mather Place/Parcel 3/the N. 37.5 feet of Lot 16/Block 1 Riverview Heights/Parcel 4/Lot 45 M.C. O’Dell, Book/Page 2012 R 12430. Beverly Gibbs Breckenridge Versfelt to HODG 1 LLC, 13356 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park 66213, part of Sec. 1/Township 11/Range 24, Book/Page 2012 R 12444. JACKSON COUNTY Interstate Underground Warehouse and Industrial Park to First Land Investment LLC, 8201 E. 23rd St., Kansas City 64129, all that part of the S.W. quarter of Sec. 7/Township 49/Range 32, Book/Page 2012 E 0092157. JP Morgan Chase Bank NA to Federal National Mortgage Association, P.O. Box 650043, Dallas 75265, Lot 74 Crossgates, Book/Page 2012 E 0092191. JP Morgan Chase Bank NA to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., 5000 Plano Parkway,
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Carrollton, TX 75010, Lot 4/Block 3 Bayles, Book/ Page 2012 E 0092362. BP Products North America Inc. to Sugar Creek Community Development Corp., 11425 Burton St., Sugar Creek 64054, all of Lots 136/137 Jackson Lithia Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0092383. James M. Malouff III to Summit Associates LLC, 1204 Romany Road, Lee’s Summit 64086, Units 1-12 inclusive/14-21 inclusive/Building 2/Units 22-41 inclusive/Building 1/Units 42-61 inclusive/Building 3 Units 62-81 inclusive/Building 4/Units 82-101 inclusive Building 5/Summit Point Condominium, Book/ Page 2012 E 0092480. CitiMortgage Inc. to Federal National Mortgage Association, P.O. Box 650043, Dallas 75265, the N. 70 feet of Lot 43 and the S. 27 feet of Lot 44 Pendleton Acres, Book/Page 2012 E 0092498. Mui Ted Chin to Cabinrock Investments LLC, 1500 S. Central Expressway, Suite 620, McKinney, TX 75070, Tracts I/II/all that part of Lot 3 Long Croysdale and Vaughn’s, Book/Page 2012 E 0092502. M&T Bank to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., 5000 Plano Parkway, Carrollton, TX 75010, Lot 47 Kingston Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0092510. JP Morgan Chase Bank NA to Federal National Mortgage Association, P.O. Box 650043, Dallas 75265, Lot 59 Highpoint, Book/Page 2012 E 0092511. Mortgage One Corp. to Kelmeg LLC, P.O. Box 88144, Carol Stream, IL 60188, Unit 8P/Lot 1 the Metropolitan Condominium together with an undivided interest in the common elements of said unit, Book/Page 2012 E 0092522. Luckywoman Inc. to Taj Mahal Investments LLC, 5126 Walnut, Kansas City, Lot 12 and the W. 3 feet of Lot 13 South Benton, Book/Page 2012 E 0092549. Mike and Mary Bradley to Roadtrip LLC, (no address given), Overland Park 66207, the E. 35 feet of Lot 135 measured along front and rear lines of said Lot 35 and the W. 35 feet of Lot 134 measured along front and rear lines of said Lot 134 Nance’s Sunset Gardens, Book/Page 2012 E 0092633. Kent Bilsborrow to Sierra Sunrise LLC, 1720 Eldon Ridge Court, Chesterfield 63017, Lot 22 Ray’s Hill, Book/Page 2012 E 0092634. Nanette T. Bukovac to Dave Richards Home Building Inc., P.O. Box 1325, Blue Springs 64013, the S. 1/2 of Lot 59 Fairmount Highlands, Book/ Page 2012 E 0092654. Craig Allen Rolier aka Craig Allen Rolier to Stone Street Investment Inc., 1025 N.E. Snowberry St., Lee’s Summit 64064, Lot 19 except that part in Boulevard D.O. Smart, Book/Page 2012 E 0092670. Wells Fargo Financial Missouri Inc. to SH&J Properties LLC, 14516 S. Alden St., Olathe 66062, Lot 39 Hillcrest Heights, Book/Page 2012 E 0092720. Daniel and Tiffany Nyberg to Roadtrip LLC, (no address given), Overland Park 66207, Lot 26 Jackon Lithia Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0092733. Robert E. Klemovec to N&A Investments LLC, 1614-1620 W. 39th St., Kansas City 64111, all that part of the N.W. 1/4 of Sec. 19/Township 49/Range 33, Book/Page 2012 E 0092918. Federal National Mortgage Association to D Jays Plumbing & Construction, 11511 Applewood Drive, Kansas City 64134, Lots 7/8 Central, Book/Page 2012 E 0092932. Neighborhoods United to KC Home Deals LLC, 421 N. Central Ave., Upland, CA 91786, Lot 342 Benton View, Book/Page 2012 E 0093043. Truman Road Corridor Association to Taj Mahal Investments LLC, 5126 Walnut, Kansas City 64112, Lot 6 and the S. 11 feet of Lot 7 Carroll Ridge, Book/Page 2012 E 0093100. Richard and Kanika Craddock to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 7425 Washington, Kansas City 64114, Lot 22/Block 5 Benton Ridge, Book/Page 2012 E 0093130. JP Morgan Chase Bank NA to Johnny Wayne Enterprises LLC, 516 Varner St., Odessa 64076, Lot 4 Ray Manor, Book/Page 2012 E 0093171. KC Properties 1 LLC to JDBC Enterprises LLC, 795 S. 1080 E., Orem, UT 84097, Lot 274 Fairlane, Book/Page 2012 E 0093357. GMAC Mortgage LLC to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., 5000 Plano Parkway, Carrollton, TX 75010, the E. 25 feet of Lot 153 and the W. 50 feet of Lot 154 East Hollywood, Book/Page 2012 E 0093381. Independence Regional Senior Care LLC to Jackson Creek Partners LLC, 534 S. Kansas Ave., Suite 900, Topeka 66603, all of Tract A and a portion of Lot 2B Villages of Jackson Creek, Book/Page 2012 E 0093386. Overland Property Group LLC to Jackson Creek Partners LLC, 534 S. Kansas Ave., Suite 900, Topeka 66603, an easement for sidewalk purposes and other improvements over upon and across the S.E. corner of Lot 2B Villages of Jackson Creek, Book/Page 2012 E 0093387.
Spettro USA Inc. to Learus Missouri Holdings LLC, 56-180 Blue Willow Drive Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada L4L 9C9, Lot 215 Kirkside, Book/ Page 2012 E 0093399. Michael H. and Darcy R. Phillips to Soigne Properties LLC, 15941 W. 65th St., No. 361, Shawnee 66217, Lot 132 Wiedenmann Park, Book/ Page 2012 E 0093421. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to ARF 3 LP, 3401 S. Arlington, Independence 64052, all of Lot 32 Wundurvue, No. 1, Book/Page 2012 E 0093597. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Nevaeh Homes LLC, 1841 S. 98th St., Kansas City, KS 66111, Lot 4 Davis Rock Creek, Book/Page 2012 E 0093602. Ivory Traylor to IT Property Management LLC, P.O. Box 287655, Kansas City 64128, the E. 30 feet of Lot A and the E. 30 feet of the S. 40 feet of Lot B, Book/Page 2012 E 0093611. Hickman Buiness Park IV LLC to Cerner Properties Inc., 2800 Rockcreek Parkway, North
Kansas City 64117, Lot 1 Hickman Buiness Center, Book/Page 2012 E 0093627. Melvin L. Dunsworth Jr. to Dolce Properties LLC, 3225 McLeod, No. 100, Las Vegas 89121, Tract I/Lot 8 Daisyfarm/Tract II/Lot 18 Clarkhaven, Book/ Page 2012 E 0093647. Patricia L. Smith n/k/a Patricia L. Walker/ Robert E. Walker to CityScape Properties LLC, 33500 Lexington Ave., De Soto 66018, Lot 3/Block 8 Commissioner’s Plat of Napoleon Boone Estates, Book/Page 2012 E 0093664. Asta Financial I LLC to Dolce Properties LLC, 3225 McLeod, No. 100, Las Vegas 89121, Lot 15 Hickman Estates, Book/Page 2012 E 0093673. Bank of the West to Examiner LLC, 4134 N.E. Hampstead Drive, Lee’s Summit 64064, Lot 8L Chapel Ridge Business Park, Book/Page 2012 E 0093719. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Jag Enterprise LLC, 1112 S. Outer Belt Road, Oak Grove 64075, Lot 71 Roanoke Manor, Book/Page 2012 E 0093768.
GMAC Mortgage LLC to Federal National Mortgage Association, P.O. Box 650043, Dallas 75265, Lot 28 The Ash Grove, Book/Page 2012 E 0093790. Mazuma Credit Union to Briarpath Fund LP, 325 Miron Drive, Suite 110, Southlake, TX 78092, Tract I/Lot 265 Avalon View/Tract II/Lot 12 Laurel Slopes/Tract III/Lot 72 Belvidere Heights/Tract IV/ Lot 7 Baker Heights/Tract V/Lot 117 Kellerstrass Heights, Book/Page 2012 E 0093836. ACH Development LLC to Wyss Home Building LLC, 4320 N.E. Park Lane Circle, Lee’s Summit 64064, Lot 71 Park Ridge, Book/Page 2012 E 0093839. James L. and June E. Fries to ROI Realty Inc., 109 W. 65th Terrace, Kansas City 64113, the W. 10 feet of Lot 7 and the E. 50 feet of Lot 8/Block 3 Armour Hills, Book/Page 2012 E 0093882. Gale Communities Inc. to Winterset 7 LLC, 400 S.W. Longview Blvd., Suite 210, Lee’s Summit 64081, all that part of the W. half of the W. half of the S.E. quarter of Sec. 3/Township 47 N./Range 32 W., Book/Page 2012 E 0093901.
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First Community Bank to Winterset 7 LLC, 140 Walnut St., Kansas City 64106, all that part of the W. half of the S.E. quarter and that part of the W. half of the N.E. quarter of Sec. 3/Township 47 N. Range 32 W., Book/Page 2012 E 0093907. Real Returns LLC to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 18011 E. U.S. Highway 24, No. 2-A, Independence 64056, the E. half of Lot 218 Marlborough Heights, Book/Page 2012 E 0094043. Smart Money Secured Income Fund LLC to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 7425 E. Washington St., Kansas City 64114, Lot 73 Sunset Lodge, Book/Page 2012 E 0094062. Real Returns LLC to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 7425 E. Washington St., Kansas City 64114, metes and bounds, Book/Page 2012 E 0094063. Green Mountain Finance Fund II LLC to Prime Group LLC, 151 S. 18th St., Suite E, Kansas City, KS 66102, Lot 201 Highpoint, Book/Page 2012 E 0094098. Stratford Health Care Properties LLC to Hidden Lake Realty LLC, 31100 Solon Road, Solon, OH 44139, Parcel 1/part of the N.E. 1/4 of the N.E. 1/4 of Sec. 33/Township 49/Range 32 together with all of Lot 1 Stratford Health Care Properties and part of Lots 6-8 Woodbrook Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0094102. Eric D. Waier to Huff Enterprises LLC, 36103 E. Gardner Road, Oak Grove 64075, Tract C/all that part of the E. 1145 feet of the S. 1145 feet of the N.W. quarter of Sec. 33/Township 50 N./Range 29 W., Book/Page 2012 E 0094151. Real Returns LLC to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 7425 E. Washington St., Kansas City 64114, all that part of Lot 53 Beaufort, Book/ Page 2012 E 0094161. Siena Development Group LLC to SAB Construction LLC, P.O. Box 942, Lee’s Summit 64063, Lot 206A Siena at Longview, Book/Page 2012 E 0094192. Sales Oil Ltd. to Prairie State Energy LLC, P.O. Box 331, Lee’s Summit 64063, Lot 1 Larkin Acres, Book/Page 2012 E 0094208. Federal National Mortgage Association aka Fannie Mae to Stewardship Investments LLC, 7218 Troost Ave., Kansas City 64131, Lot 8 Milwood, Book/Page 2012 E 0094271. Delbert G. Elsasser/Mary Joe Elsasser aka Mary Jo Elsasser to KC Metro Homes LLC, 524 Walnut St., No. 210, Kansas City 64106, Lot 758 Ruskin Hills, Book/Page 2012 E 0094327. Shirley L. Griffitts to KC Capital, 1805 Burr Oaks Drive, Liberty 64068, Lot 12/Block 2 Englewood Court, Book/Page 2012 E 0094331. Shirley L. Griffitts to KC Capital, 1805 Burr Oaks Drive, Liberty 64068, Lot 13/Block 2 Englewood Court, Book/Page 2012 E 0094336. The PrivateBank to Dwellium LLC, 659 ArthurLeblanc Boucherville, Quebec, Canada J4B 8N8, all of Lot 36 and the S. 15 feet of Lot 37 Altamoor, Book/Page 2012 E 0094353. American Real Estate Investments LLC to Mysstique PP LLC, P.O. Box 1256, Geelong VIC 3220, Lot 2 Hickman Hills, No. 2, Book/Page 2012 E 0094466. American Real Estate Investments LLC to Abanic US Properties LLC, 5405 Wayne Ave., Kansas City 64110, Lot 43 Kathleen Ridge, Book/ Page 2012 E 0094487. Three Days LLC to Alicia Yuen Holdings 1 LLC, 5034 Forest Ave., Kansas City 64110, Lot 93 Southeast Garden Homes, Book/Page 2012 E 0094503. Tapped Inc. to TM Properties & Management Inc., 11327 Orchard Road, Kansas City 64134, Lot 10 Monegaw Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0094535. B&A Development LLC to TM Properties & Management Inc./Terrachel Mitchell, 11327 Orchard Road, Kansas City 64134, the N. 32 feet of the S. 126 feet of the E. 20 feet of Lot 8/Block 6 and the N. 32 feet of the S. 126 feet of Lots 9/10/ Block 6 Gage, Book/Page 2012 E 0094536. Federal National Mortgage Association aka Fannie Mae to Dennison Mahin LLC, 7054 Northern Ave., Raytown 64133, all that part of the N.W. quarter of the S.W. quarter of Sec. 3/ Township 48/Range 32 lying W. of the right of way of Woodson Road, Book/Page 2012 E 0094583. Patrick Ottensmeyer to Kirkwood Realty Co. LLC, 333 W. 11th St., Suite 101, Kansas City 64105, Unit 304 Kirkwood Circle Condominium, Book/ Page 2012 E 0094646. Wells Fargo Bank NA to Federal National Mortgage Association, 13455 Noel Road, Dallas 78240, Lot 143 Stonecreek, Book/Page 2012 E 0094655. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Professional Quality LLC, 2586 Grape St., Denver 80207, the W. 41 feet of the E. 46.93 feet of Lot 12 except that part thereof in 67th St. Blenheim, Book/Page 2012 E 0094658. Fannie Mae aka Federal National Mortgage Association to ARF 3 LP, P.O. Box 1127, Redondo
Beach, CA 90278, Lot 21 except the N. 5 feet thereof Trustwood Hills, Book/Page 2012 E 0094664. B.M.W. Communities Inc. to Richard Mather Builders Inc., 13911 Norby Road, Grandview 64030, Lot 12 Highland Meadows, Book/Page 2012 E 0094678. CB Other Holdings II Inc. to Magic Woods Inc., 2300 N. Rogers Road, Olathe 66062, Tract I/Lot 4 Simonin, Book/Page 2012 E 0094696. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 7425 E. Washington St., Kansas City 64114, the N. 13 1/3 feet of Lot 41 and the S. 20 feet of Lot 42 Kemper Heights, Book/Page 2012 E 0094841. CitiMortgage Inc. to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 7425 E. Washington St., Kansas City 64114, Lot 14/Block 7 Vineyard Garden, Book/ Page 2012 E 0094853. Accelerated Wealth LLC to Kingdom Investments Unlimited Inc., 13301 Glendale Drive, Hagerstown, MD 21743, Tract 1/the S. 1 1/3 feet of Lot 7 and the N. 21 2/3 feet of Lot 8 Schell’s Orchard Hill/Tract 2/the S. 11 2/3 feet of Lot 8 and the N. 11 1/3 feet of Lot 9 Schell’s Orchard Hill, Book/Page 2012 E 0094860. Duplexes at Chapman Farms LLC to Rental Resources LLC, 4801 Main St., No. 1000, Kansas City 64112, Lot 16 The Gardens at Chapman Farms, Book/Page 2012 E 0094878. Kenneth E. Whittemore to Myers Properties LLC, 79 N. 33rd St., Kansas City 66102, Lot 16 and the N. 1/2 of vacated alley S. of and adjoining said Lot E Chellis, Book/Page 2012 E 0094890. Roma Mia LLC to Cupini’s Inc., 1809 Westport Road, Kansas City 64134, the N. 26.26 feet of Lot 41 Vogle Heights, No. 2, Book/Page 2012 E 0094934. CBK Properties LLC to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 18011 E. U.S. Highway 24, No. 2-A, Independence 64056, Lot 27/Block 7 East Linwood, Book/Page 2012 E 0095021. Geraldine R. Tetlow to TTDreamhouse LLC, 301 Russell Drive, Apt. 79, Jonesboro, AR 72401, Lot 5 Karr’s Big Chief except that part deeded for road, Book/Page 2012 E 0095061. Spettro USA Inc. to KOL Holding LLC,, No. 25-52112 Range Road 222 Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada T8C 1H6, all of Lot 141 Country Club, Book/Page 2012 E 0095137. Federal National Mortgage Association aka Fannie Mae to D&C Enterprises LLC, 5413 Neosho Ave., Fairway 66205, Lot 9 Sadie Witschner, Book/Page 2012 E 0095150. PHH Mortgage Corp. to Federal National Mortgage Association, 14221 Dallas Parkway, Dallas 75254, Lot 24 except the S. 2 feet and the S. 4 feet of Lot 23 Parkway Manor, Book/Page 2012 E 0095183. Katherine J. Canfield fka Katherine J. Baker/ Charles E. Canfield et al. to BP Products North America Inc., 1000 N. Sterling, Sugar Creek 64053, Lots 174/175 Jackson Lithia Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0095214. Stanley L. Taylor/Aisha N. Taylor to Common Sense Investing Inc., 10400 E. Bannister Road, Kansas City 64134, Lot 30 Highview Estates, Book/ Page 2012 E 0095246. American Real Estate Investments LLC to IPS Enterprises LLC, 1/2 Cove Ave., Manly NSW 2095, Australia, all of the E. 1/2 of Lot 9 Swope Park Summit, Book/Page 2012 E 0095252. John M. and Elizabeth P. Glowik to KHG Properties LLC, 708 S.E. Southbrooke Court, Blue Springs 64014, Lot 17 Southbrooke, Book/Page 2012 E 0095307. North Oaks Partners Inc. to Associated Group LC, 560 S. 300 E., Salt Lake City 84111, part of Lot 1 Pendleton’s Blue Ridge Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0095343. Peter J. and Natasha Jordan to American Real Estate Investments LLC, 7425 E. Washington St., Kansas City 64114, Lot 295 Blenheim, Book/Page 2012 E 0095365. Neighborhoods United to KC Home Deals LLC, 421 N. Central Ave., Upland, CA 91786, Lot 384 Benton View, Book/Page 2012 E 0095407. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Motex 4 LLC, 17564 Seneca Springs, College Station, TX 77845, Lot 70 all of Lots 62-84 and A. Bowling Green, Book/Page 2012 E 0095410. Robert W. and Lynn M. George to Kingsley Management International LLC, 16220 Foster St., Overland Park 66085, all that part of Lot 2 Ridenour, Book/Page 2012 E 0095412. Federal National Mortgage Association to R and W Realty LLC, 3801 S. Grand Ave., Independence 64055, Lot 66 Raytown Manor, Book/Page 2012 E 0095434. National Bank of Kansas City to World of VW Inc., 16 E. 79th St., Kansas City 64114, Lot 112 Corbin Place, Book/Page 2012 E 0095489. CLAY COUNTY
Jerry W. Stevens/Linda Stevens to Nordiak Inc., 1319 Camille St., Liberty 64068, all of Lot 2 and all of Tract B Henson Farm, Book/Page 6911/152. McBride & Son Homes Land Development Inc. to MSH Syndicated Holding LLC, 1000 S. York Road, Third Floor, Elmhurst, IL 60126, Lots 28-30/36-44 inclusive Brighton Crossing, Book/Page 6911/159. McBride & Son Homes Kansas City LLC to MSH Syndicated Holdings LLC, 1000 S. York Road, Third Floor, Elmhurst, IL 60126, Parcel 1/Unit 3A/Building 33/Units 1A/1B/1C/Building 35 Brighton Crossing Condominium/Parcel 2/part of Lot 2 Brightons Crossing, Book/Page 6911/160. Donald W. Gray/Nancy A. Gray to Monroe Properties LLC, 15513 N. Bales Road, Smithville 64089, Tract 1/Parcel A/all that part of the S. half of the N.E. quarter of the N.W. quarter of Sec. 26/ Township 51/Range 33, Book/Page 6911/18. CitiMortgage Inc. to Federal National Mortgage Association, P.O. Box 650043, Dallas 75265, Lot 30/Block 15 New Mark, Book/Page 6911/3. MCK Partnership to Integrity Homebuilders, 8015 Windsor Drive, Kansas City 64176, Lots 69/70/79/87/88 Montclair, Book/Page 6912/101. Deborah Trillin to Current Properties Investments LLC, 1831 S.W. Market St., Lee’s Summit 64082, Lot 8/Block 27 Meadowbrook North, Book/Page 6912/83. Larabrooke Homes Inc. to Presko Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 11115, Kansas City 64119, all of Lots 26/27/Block 15 except that part condemned for highway purposes, Book/Page 6913/19. Suncrest Investment Properties LLC to 203 Holdings LLC, 200 E. 14th Ave., North Kansas City 64116, all that part of the S.E. one-quarter of the N.E. one-quarter of Sec. 23/Township 50/Range 33, Book/Page 6913/56. Fannie Mae aka Federal National Mortgage Association to Moto Properties LLC, P.O. Box 14245, Parkville 64152, Lot 16 Richfield, Book/Page 6913/90. Trophy Homes Inc. to Hearthside Homes of Kansas City Inc., 6601 Royal St., Building A, Pleasant Valley 64068, all of Lot 58 Trails of Brentwood, Book/Page 6914/1. Barry Ridge Homes LLC to Northview Meadows Homes LLC, 8901 N. Brighton Ave., Kansas City 64156, Lot 18 Northview Meadows, Book/Page 6914/101. Trophy Homes Inc. to Hearthside Homes of Kansas City Inc., 6601 Royal St., Building A, Pleasant Valley 64068, Lot 59 Brentwood Hills, Book/Page 6914/3. McNary-Higdon Development Co. to First Choice Custom Homes LLC, P.O. Box 22473, Kansas City 64113, all of Lot 15 Oakwood Estates, Book/Page 6914/44. Northland Expansion LLC to Heartland Regional Medical Center, 5325 Faraon St., St. Joseph 64506, part of Lot 3 Tower Plaza, Book/ Page 6915/113. George Michael Bedinger/Anna Margaret Bedinger to Canuteson Town Square Properties LLC, 20 E. Franklin, Liberty 64068, part of Lot 123 Original Town of Liberty, Book/Page 6915/23. Steven K. and Amber Waisner/Matthew D. Waisner to 1330 N.E. Vivion Rd. LLC, 13900 N.W. Timber Ridge St., Kansas City 64152, a tract of land in the S.E. 1/4 of the S.W. 1/4 of Sec. 36/ Township 51/Range 33, Book/Page 6915/6. McNearney Pittenger & Associates LLC to CommunityAmerica Credit Union, 11501 Blue Ridge, Second Floor, Kansas City 64134, Lot 62 Deerfield, Book/Page 6916/102. DCL Tract III LLC to Robertson Construction LLC, P.O. Box 876, Liberty 64069, Lot 133 Hunters Glen North, Book/Page 6916/111. Wells Fargo Bank NA to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., 3476 Stateview Blvd., MAC, No. X7801-013/FC, Fort Mill, SC 29715, commencing at a point 12 feet N. of the S.W. corner of Lot 16 Linden Heights, Book/Page 6916/94. Trophy Homes Inc. to Hearthside Homes of Kansas City Inc., Lot 67 Brentwood Manor, Book/ Page 6917/102. Sharynne T. Thoma to KC Capital, 1805 Burr Oaks Drive, Liberty 64068, Lot 13/Block 1 Crestview, Book/Page 6917/135. KCB Bank to JC Homes LLC, 164 S. Main St., No. 421, Parkville 64152, all of N. 85 feet of S. 113 feet of Tract 23 measured along E. side Meadowbrook except there from W. 87.27 feet of said Tract 23 measured along S. line thereof Village of Claycomo, Book/Page 6917/140. BPI Midwest to Amber Lakes Homes, Lot 471 Amber Lakes, Book/Page 6917/37. Brookfield Residential LLC/Missouri to Distinctive Homes by J&K Properties Inc., 1801 N.W. Platte Road, Suite 226, Riverside 64150, Lot 36 The Preserve, Book/Page 6918/113.
DCL Tract III LLC to Robertson Construction LLC, P.O. Box 876, Liberty 64069, Lot 119 Hunters Glen North, Book/Page 6918/127. First State Bank of Kansas City KS to Friedley Properties LLC, P.O. Box 901264, Kansas City 64190, Lots 1-22/25-40/Tract A The Woods of Maple Hills, Book/Page 6918/168. Jeffery and Rebecca Jenkins to Call Investments LLC, 4216 N. Hickory Lane, Kansas City 64116, Lot 19/Block 1 Antioch Acres, Book/ Page 6918/175. Maggie E. Gardner to Two Mikes Investment Properties LLC, 9811 N.E. 96th Terrace, Kansas City 64157, all of the E. 148.72 feet of Lot 27 except the E. 74.36 feet thereof Kaill Pleasant Valley Acres, Book/Page 6919/114. Scott Nguyen to SMN Investments LP, 2309 N.E. 35th Court, Kansas City 64116, Lot 104 Kinsley Forest Estates, Book/Page 6920/13. Commerce Bank fka Commerce Bank NA to BB Capital, all of Lot 1/Block 2 Park Tower, Book/ Page 6920/158. PHH Mortgage Corp. to Federal National Mortgage Association, 14221 Dallas Parkway, Dallas 75254, all of Lot 63 Oak Tree, Book/Page 6920/203. DCL Tract II LLC to Robertson Construction LLC, P.O. Box 876, Liberty 64069, Lot 281 Brooke Haven, Book/Page 6920/8. Fannie Mae aka Federal National Mortgage Association to BB Capital, 6618 Nebo Hills Road, Liberty 64068, all of Lot 12/Block 10 Stratford Park, Book/Page 6920/88. Darren L. and Peggy S. Shaffer to KAD Investments Inc., P.O. Box 1580, Platte City 64079, Lot 10 Rollins’ Landing, Book/Page 6921/21. DCL Tract I LLC to Robertson Construction LLC, P.O. Box 876, Liberty 64069, Lot 447 Brooke Ridge, Book/Page 6921/23. PLATTE COUNTY JDB Investments Inc. to Jay Jackson Builders Inc., 6110 N.W. Hickory, Parkville 64152, Lot 17 Montebella, Book/Page 1196/267. William E. Leftridge/Tracy L. Leftridge to Geisert Holdings LLC, 6712 N.W. 102nd, Kansas City 64154, Lot 64 Hawksbury, Book/Page 1196/522. Hunt Midwest Residential LLC to PC Homes LLC, 2501 N.E. 102nd Terrace, Kansas City 64155, Lot D/Building 12A/12B/12C/12D Fox Creek Townhomes, Book/Page 1196/608. Hunt Midwest Residential LLC to PC Homes LLC, 2501 N.E. 102nd Terrace, Kansas City 64155, Lot D/Building 11A/11B/11C/11D Fox Creek Townhomes, Book/Page 1196/610. WB LLC to Dan Rowe Properties LLC, 3016 N.W. 62nd Terrace, Kansas City 64151, Lot 12 Drakes Crossing, Book/Page 1196/657. National Residential Development Co. to Casa Bella Construction, 9137 N. Flora, Kansas City 64155, Lot 18 A National, Book/Page 1196/660. Peterson Development Co. Inc. to Casa Bella Construction, 9137 N. Flora, Kansas City 64155, Lot 13 Embassy Park, Book/Page 1196/681. Zachary Holmes/Melissa Holmes to Dan Rowe Properties LLC, 3016 N.W. 62nd Terrace, Kansas City 64151, Lot 12/Block 2 Park Hills, Book/Page 1196/700. Marguerite Edwards/O. Wylie Riddle/Beverly Eunice Riddle to BR Northpoint LLC, 6300 N. Revere Drive, Suite 225, Kansas City 64151, Lot 3 Riverside, Book/Page 1196/790. Northland Expansion LLC to Heartland Regional Medical Center, 5325 Faraon St., St. Joseph 64506, Lot 11 Parkville Commons, Book/ Page 1196/816. Jean L. Decheff to Quest Leasing LLC, Lot 21/ Block 16 Platte Ridge, Book/Page 1196/979. Regions Bank to Federal National Mortgage Association, 14221 Dallas Parkway, Dallas 75254, Lot 99 Tiffany Greens, Book/Page 1196/981.
BUILDING PERMITS COMMERCIAL JOHNSON COUNTY OVERLAND PARK City of Overland Park, commercial construction at 12401 Hemlock St., (outdoor patio), $120,000, 1,600 square feet. JACKSON COUNTY Gardner Construction Co. Inc., commercial alteration at 25 N. Amsterdam Circle, Terminal A, $470,000. Genesis Construction Mgt. LLC, commercial alteration at 603 W. 47th St., Skelly Building, $65,000.
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McAfoos Michelle McAfoos has been promoted to regional director, private banking, central states region at M&I Wealth Management, a part of BMO Financial Group. Previously, McAfoos was private bank manager, Kansas City. McAfoos will be responsible for oversight of the operations, business development and client relationships of her three private bank teams as they manage the financial activities for clients with investable assets in excess of $1 million. She has more than 20 years of industry experience and has been with M&I for the past 10 years. Liz Dean has been promoted to assistant vice president/banking
Katherine Howell has been appointed senior vice president and chief nurse executive for Saint Luke’s Health System. Previously, Howell was CEO of Saint Luke’s South Hospital. Howell is responsible for the structure and continued advancement of nursing. Howell joined Saint Luke’s in 2001 and became CEO of Saint Luke’s South in 2009.
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Daniels Phillip Daniels has joined Block Real Estate Services as accounting administrator.
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ith longtime CEO Tom McDonnell set to retire, colleagues at DST Systems Inc. aren’t the only ones who should take a moment to thank him for his years of service. McDonnell and DST have been active, vital partners in the renaissance of downtown Kansas City. During McDonnell’s leadership, the company populated the west end of the Downtown Loop with new — filled — office stock and shared incentives to bring its neighbors’ older buildings back up to speed. The company provided the real estate muscle to assemble land for H&R Block Inc.’s new headquarters building and the Kansas City Power & Light District. It stepped in as a developer to bring thousands of Internal Revenue Service workers to Downtown and stood ready to do the same to attract a new federal office building. Friends in the business community say McDonnell also has invested much time and energy to help businesses get a foothold in the area through mentoring and hooking up companies with potential customers. McDonnell followed the old Kansas City Southern model of civic involvement. He was ready to speak up — and put up the company’s muscle — when there was important work to be done but silent when it came to accepting personal credit. Kansas City is fortunate to have many business leaders who are generous with their time and whose companies sponsor worthy causes. But it’s hard to find corporate leaders quite like McDonnell in an age when executives spread their careers across several companies and cities. Although it appears very likely that DST will reduce its level of direct involvement and investment in local causes, few think McDonnell will retire from the civic arena. Regardless, it is a fitting time to be thankful for the efforts of DST under McDonnell and to hope that their examples inspire others to build on their work.
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Schramm’s unflattering remarks on KC miss some key points
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f Carl Schramm’s ears were burning this past week, it’s no surprise. The former head of the Kauffman Foundation referred to Kansas City as America’s “least dynamic town — it won’t grow and it won’t shrink.” Schramm’s comments came in an article, “The Town-Gown Connection,” posted on the George W. Bush Institute website and widely circulated around the KC business community. Schramm says the most reliable indicator of a city’s health is whether employment is expanding or contracting. He’s correct in that KC’s job growth has been flat recently, but his broad-brush dismissal of our community overlooks a number of factors. He points out that GUEST the nation’s fastCOLUMN est-growing cities — Seattle, San DiJim ego and Columbus, Heeter Ohio — all have a strong university. Kansas Citians certainly agree on that point — there’s been a concerted and successful effort to make UMKC Kansas City’s great university since the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation’s “Time to Get It Right” report. That report listed two areas of strength, and ripe for investment, at the university — performing and visual arts and the entrepreneurship program at the Bloch School. Thanks in large part to the leadership of Chancellor Leo Morton and Missouri Board of Curators member Warren Erdman, great things
are happening. Schramm stresses that universities need to become “schools for creative entrepreneurs.” Well, the Bloch School of Management at UMKC is now recognized as one of the best entrepreneurial teaching and research schools in the nation (see The Princeton Review). And Henry Bloch’s recent $32 million gift to the university will fund a new state-of-the-art facility, the Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. As for strengthening the university’s performing and visual arts, studies on the feasibility, cost and possible locations for a new downtown arts campus are complete. Efforts now are focused on fundraising — civic and philanthropic support will be important for this initiative, one of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Big 5 goals for “Big KC.” Schramm says job creation makes a healthy city, and we certainly agree. Job creation is a key element of all the chamber’s Big 5 initiatives, whether it’s bringing new jobs to our urban center, supporting entrepreneurship or bolstering life sciences, the KC Animal Health Corridor and the arts. Schramm overlooked those efforts, as well as things like the addition of Google Fiber, NCI designation for the University of Kansas Cancer Center, the critical mass of clinical research facilities, etc. Mr. Schramm may not be looking back at his former city of employment, but we’re certainly looking forward. And anticipating good things. Jim Heeter | Heeter is president and CEO of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
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ue-added space,” Rooke said. The combination appears to have paid off for both sides. Lexmark helped Perceptive with the heavy lifting of global expansion. Since the purchase, Lexmark acquired Australia-based ISYS Search Software for $32 million, Boston-based Nolij Corp. for $32 million, Virginia-based Brainware Inc. for $148 million and Dutch software company Pallas Athena for $50.2 million. In turn, Perceptive has broadened Lexmark’s portfolio. “Pre-Perceptive, we were very much a hardware-centric company,” Rooke said. “Now, we have a much bigger toolbox, and we can create a lot more interesting and deeper solutions with our customers than we’ve ever had before.” That’s big because Lexmark’s core business hasn’t fared well. Lexmark’s second-quarter earnings were down more than 61 percent to $39.2 million, or 55 cents a share. Last month, the company said it would eliminate roughly 1,700 positions worldwide, including 1,100 manufacturing positions. The layoffs, which didn’t affect Percep-
tive, stemmed from the company’s exit from the inkjet hardware business. Rooke said the “tough decisions” were necessary to help Lexmark focus on the growth of its laser printing business, which has been masked by the decline of the legacy inkjet business. Technology analyst Brian Alexander, of Raymond James & Associates Inc. in St. Petersburg, Fla., said Lexmark’s purchase of Perceptive is furthering its goal of capturing revenue from customers looking to manage their document flow electronically. “To me, it seems like it’s a hedge against a paperless office,” Alexander said. “They’re primarily a printer company, and it’s a way for them to capture incremental profits should businesses decide to print less. They probably don’t pitch it that way.” So far, he said the Perceptive acquisition has generated some cross-selling opportunities. “But most of Wall Street is focused more on how much will (Lexmark’s) core business shrink as opposed to how much will Perceptive grow,” he said. araletz@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2234 | @AlysonRaletz
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ence building First Community Bank into the 13th-largest bank headquartered in the Kansas City area, based on assets. “It’s hard to describe in words what a great job he did for First Community Bank,” said Jack Fields, chairman and CEO of First Community Bank. “Greg and I started 33 years ago, and the bank grew from $2 million in assets to $630 million. It was all internal growth. We didn’t go out and acquire other institutions.” Fields said Bynum designed a home equity loan program for First Community Bank that reached a volume of $29 million a month. First Community Bank is in the process of merging with Wichitabased Equity Bank, a deal scheduled to close on Oct. 1. Fields said he’ll miss working with Bynum, but Bynum thinks he has a better long-term opportunity at Lead Bank. Rowland said Bynum takes over the president’s job from Greg Bryant, who remains CEO of Lead Bank. Rowland said Bynum is being groomed to evenBynum tually succeed Bryant. “I think the opportunity to be associated with the Rowland family is so positive,” Bynum said. “The impact they’ve had on the entire Kansas City metropolitan area and their commitment to the small businesses and the startup of small businesses is exciting to me.” Bynum said he especially liked programs such as Lead Ventures, a business accelerator that awards free consulting, accounting, marketing and other assistance to qualifying small businesses. The program is unique among area banks, helping Lead Bank forge a nice niche in offering financial services to small businesses. “I’ve known Greg Bryant for a short period of time, but he has a great reputation, and with all of the things Lead Bank has planned in the future, there is going to be plenty for both of us to do,” Bynum said. “I think we complement each other, and I look forward to working with him, as well as Josh, in this new phase of my career.”
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than $4 million. Mike Lanning, a Cassidy Turley senior vice president who was a broker with CB Richard Ellis when the sale closed, said the price was among the higher persquare-foot rates for an owner-occupier in the Kansas City area. He represented the building’s seller, Harrison Street & Montecito, a medical real estate investment joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC and Montecito Medical Acquisition Co. Mike Levitan and Tim Schaffer of RED Brokerage LLC represented Murphy-Hoffman. Lanning also represented Harrison Street & Montecito in another nearby medical office building sale. Peters & Associates Inc., an architecture firm in Overland Park, bought the 18,043-square-foot medical office building at 4801 College Blvd. It fetched $165 a square foot, or nearly $3 million. Peters & Associates, which was un-
represented, plans to offer the building for lease. Lanning said most medical office buildings typically sell for $90 to $120 a square foot. “It’s a combination of the quality of the buildings and the location of the buildings,” Lanning said. “With the Tomahawk Creek building, it was a specialized use where the buyer of the building is redeveloping the use from a medical office building to a corporate office.” Both buildings originally went on the market for lease. But Lanning said buyer interest was high enough to persuade Harrison Street & Montecito to sell the assets. Ray Sonnenberg, a broker for LaSala-Sonnenberg Commercial Realty Co. whose listings sometimes include medical office buildings, said medical office has remained a strong sector in commercial real estate. “Medical office is still not the darling multifamily is, but it’s preferred,” he said. svockrodt@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2206 | Twitter: @st_vockrodt
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AWG: Lawyer’s testimony calls practice per se illegal FROM PAGE 1
tronage system.” Moark LLC, a California-based egg producer, argues in its Aug. 27 countersuit that AWG fixes prices horizontally between members, meaning egg producers don’t get fair market value. Essentially, Moark argues that if AWG wins damages through the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act, Moark should recover from AWG in return using the same theory. “We do not believe their counterclaim has any merit,” said AWG’s attorney, Pat Stueve of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP. He added that it should have been filed along with Moark’s answer in June. United Egg Producers also is a defendant Stueve in AWG’s case and represents 95 percent of the eggs produced in the country. It filed a motion to dismiss rather than a counterclaim because it did not sell eggs directly to AWG members, said Joe Rebein of Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, the industry group’s lawyer. The May court decision, O’Brien v. Leegin, instructs Kansas courts to broadly read the state’s antitrust law to forbid almost all forms of price-fixing. Moark’s countersuit cites Stueve’s testimony to a legislative committee, days after the Leegin antitrust ruling, that horizontal price-fixing between direct competitors — such as co-op members — is per se illegal. Dan Crabtree of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP represents Moark. Some observers see Leegin as a radical sea change, opening the courtroom doors to claims that all kinds of routine business arrangements, such as non-
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Local AWG members involved in the suit are Balls Food Stores, the Cosentino Group Inc. and McKeever’s Enterprises Inc. Trial is set for February 2014. AWG had revenue of $7.77 billion in 2011, making it the area’s second-biggest private company. The profits from leveraging its buying power with suppliers are passed along at the end of each year to its 575 members, which collectively have 2,600 stores in 24 states. The egg case isn’t AWG’s only foray into antitrust fights as a plaintiff. Its suit against Cadbury and other chocolate makers was transferred into a batch of similar cases in federal court in August.
Mission faces a similarly lukewarm market for municipal special obligation bonds, so The Cameron Group is requesting that part of the TIF and CID bonds be issued as general obligation bonds. General obligation bonds mean the issuer — in this case, Mission — guarantees repayment should the development not generate enough revenue to meet bond obligations. Korb Maxwell, a Polsinelli Shughart PC lawyer representing The Cameron Group, said his client has included developer guarantees and the prospect of special assessments to protect the city from having to service the project’s debt. “We think, between the Maxwell developer and the city, that a properly underwritten deal can make sense,” Maxwell said. Mission Mayor Laura McConwell said the city’s independent financial adviser is reviewing the financial proposal and should issue recommendations in early October. When asked whether Mission previously had issued general obligation bonds on behalf of a commercial development, McConwell said, “We haven’t had a $165 million development before.” Mission has paid about $12 million to fix stormwater drainage issues at the Mission Gateway site. Maxwell said The Cameron Group expects to complete TIF, CID and rezoning approvals by mid-October, which could lead to a January start date for construction.
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Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. may face legal exposure after a Kansas Supreme Court ruling on interpreting state antitrust statutes.
competes and territorial agreements, are illegal. Others, including Stueve, say it simply reinforced long-standing Kansas law. “There hasn’t been a flood of lawsuits since Leegin has come down,” he said. Stueve said a counterclaim against AWG was not a concern when the company filed the original suit in 2010 or after the Leegin decision. Michael Saunders, managing partner of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, said Leegin clearly restricts resale price maintenance, the practice of setting prices vertically up and down a supply chain. “The unanswered question is: What else does it apply to?” he said. Saunders
EXIT: Impact ‘equal to J.C. Nichols’ FROM PAGE 1
between Tom and the board, and they decided to go a different way,” analyst Pete Heckmann of Avondale Partners LLC in Prairie Village said of the timing of McDonnell’s departure. McDonnell and Hooley declined to comment, a company spokesman said. McDonnell is lauded in the Kansas City area for DST’s involvement in real estate and urban redevelopment efforts that align with the community’s goals. “I think his impact, between Downtown and the Plaza, is probably equal to the impact of J.C. Nichols,” Hooley said Phil Kirk, a former chairman of DST Realty. Kirk credited McDonnell’s leadership for redevelopment efforts at Union Station, Kansas City Public Library’s Central Branch, a new headquarters for Kansas City Southern and many others. “It wasn’t that he was just interested in being a nice guy; it was a business understanding that if you were going to be in urban renewal areas ... the areas around you need a chance at improving,” he said. “If you look at the value of the real estate, we thought we were doing a great job for shareholders. You can’t create real estate in an urban area without having concern
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for what’s around you.” But DST has come under public pressure to reduce its noncore assets. Last year, New York activist investor Russell Glass pushed DST to sell. The attention highlighted the company’s voluminous noncore assets and prompted DST to hire an investment banker to evaluate the structure of the business. DST’s board said that the company would not put itself up for sale but that it would review all noncore assets for potential monetization. During recent earnings calls, executives have said this process has begun. Heckmann said DST probably would accelerate its efforts to monetize more than $1.5 billion in noncore assets — consisting of publicly traded securities, private equity investments and real estate positions — after McDonnell’s exit. He pointed to turnover on DST’s board in the past year, resulting in the exodus of four longtime Kansas City-based directors and the entrance of three new independent directors. “I think they’ve instilled a greater level of discipline in terms of the relative value of these noncore assets,” Heckmann said. “It’s our suspicion that he was very reluctant to monetize any portions of that portfolio. My assumption is that not unlike some other investors, he probably felt the valuations weren’t yet right. In other cases, they had significant unreal-
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ized capital gains, and he was fairly concerned about tax efficiency.” Although neither McDonnell nor Hooley have done media interviews since DST’s executive changes were announced, Heckmann and other analysts have had some phone time with the new CEO. “We are very excited about his level of engagement,” Heckmann said. “(Hool-
ey) is much more interested in running a focused provider of data processing services than he is necessarily running a conglomerate of software data processing businesses, plus a significant real estate portfolio and a significant portfolio of securities. It may not be a fire sale, but certainly what I would love to hear him say is that they are putting a plan in place to divest most of the liquid noncore assets over a period of the next six to nine months.” McDonnell won’t disappear from sight, however. He is chairman of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s board of trustees. The board is looking for a new CEO to succeed Carl Schramm, who left the foundation in January. Jeannine Strandjord, a member of the Kauffman board and former DST board member, said the CEO search has started. She would not say how active McDonnell has been in the process or whether he is interested in the job for himself. “Tom will never just sit around doing nothing,” Strandjord said. Peter deSilva, president and COO of UMB Financial Corp. and a friend of McDonnell, said he expected him to remain active locally, especially with entrepreneurs. “I don’t think he’s going to go anywhere,” he said. “I have no doubt that Tom’s going to continue to be a force for good in Kansas City.” araletz@bizjournals.com | 816-777-2234 | Twitter: @AlysonRaletz
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