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May 17, 2012

A truce is unlikely in Kansas City's cross-town battle over businesses

  • Missouri and Kansas have burned through hundreds of millions of dollars to lure businesses from one side of Kansas City to the other in the pursuit of jobs.
    • By DAVID A. LIEB
    Associated Press

    KANSAS CITY — The states of Missouri and Kansas are divided only by the yellow stripe of State Line Road. It's a single community, but the division is sharp when it comes to the cutthroat business of economic development.

    The two states have burned through hundreds of millions of dollars to lure businesses to one side of that stripe or another in the pursuit of jobs. Yet sometimes, those jobs merely have shifted to different buildings across the border with little real growth for the region's economy.


     
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