Bridging: Making Downtown Kansas City Stronger by Coming Together
On the first Saturday in December in the year 2000, I was unpacking boxes in our then-new offices in the Power and Light Building when the phone rang. It was John O’Brien, artist and gallery owner, demanding that I stop what I was doing and walk down to his gallery at 19th and Baltimore. I knew John as a neighborhood leader when our firm was asked to develop a plan to guide the transformation of the Union Station Warehouse District into the emerging unique artist and art gallery culture that Jim Leedy led and cultivated.