“Once the folks from Parkville and Park (University) look at the concerns ... mine the area for limestone and lease the ...

Parkville is on board with the plan ... nearby residents or affect Riss Lake’s dam — if Park University were to expand the caves. The potential for the university to use Kansas City ...

The university had asked Kansas ... such as mining limestone and using the resulting caves for commercial storage. If the land becomes part of Parkville, those hypothetical activities could ...

The caves also house a massive frozen food storage complex, a paintball business and a U.S. Postal Service facility that stores and distributes new stamps. Park University in Parkville has dozens ...

The university also makes money renting out business space to the Parkville Commercial Underground ... A mock, high-tech hospital facility. In a cave. East of campus, the Martin Marietta mining ...

said Park University. At the heart of Kansas City’s recommendation to deny annexation is the mining of limestone caves underneath the property which Parkville claims were already mined in 2020.

A new campaign, “Hometown U,” is trying to bring the city of Parkville and Park University closer together, helping the community brand itself as a college town. “Parkville was its own ...

Deep beneath Parkville, vodka is distilled (SD Strong, “Made in a Cave”) and nursing students ... A few chunks of ceiling fell at Park University in 2015, harming nobody but speeding up ...

Park University would like to see 80 acres of its land transfer from Kansas City to Parkville, placing the whole property in the same city (Scott Canon/The Beacon). Kansas City could shrink by about ...