At 128 feet, Rise on 9th, the newest in a slew of downtown luxury student apartments, is the sixth tallest building in Columbia, according to Emporis Research. The building’s 10th floor penthouse lounge offers an aerial view of MU’s campus and downtown. The paneled glass windows provide students an almost complete panorama of Missouri’s fourth […]
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It constituted little more than an afterthought during the discussions that crafted the City of Columbia’s new zoning code in the summer of 2015. Shouldn’t we do something about these Airbnbs? At the time, Columbia didn’t have that many properties listed on Airbnb, the vacation rental website that allows people to advertise short-term rentals to
Have you ever driven past a neighborhood and thought it appeared to be its own little community within a community? Perhaps that’s because it’s intentionally functioning as one. Homeowners associations, or HOAs, serve to create consistency and communication among residents of a subdivision. Here’s the scoop on how they function — or, at times, malfunction.
Randy Cole makes snaking motions with his hands and arms to illustrate the zig-zag path the Columbia Community Land Trust has trekked in the quest to begin putting a dent in the city’s affordable housing crisis. “It wasn’t a straight line,” Cole jokes. And it has been lonely at times, as well as challenging, to
Growth means progress; progress is what we all hope to achieve in business, personal development, and in life in general. But with progress comes cost. We see that quite clearly when businesses and real estate expand. This progress comes with needs: space, people, materials, etc. In order to grow, we have to pay a specified
The Missouri Sunshine Law, the legislation requiring open government meetings and records, celebrates its 45th birthday in 2018, and it’s showing some middle-age stress in its efforts to bring transparency to state government. Some of that is driven by partisan politics, but evolving communications technology — technology not really envisioned in 1973 — puts on
Fore! Midway Golf & Games, the par-3 golf course and entertainment center just west of Columbia, has been recently renovated. Whether you’re an avid golfer or adventurous teen looking for a place to spend a summer afternoon, the new facility likely has something you’re looking for. Midway Golf & Games opened in the 1990s under
By the end of 2016, 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide because of persecution, conflict, or violence. Imagine being forced to flee your home, your country, and your way of life just to survive. All you have is what you could carry with you. Where will you go? Perhaps a new country, where you
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If you follow the city council or county commission at all, you’ve probably heard the acronyms TDD and TIF, and you’ve also probably heard of Chapter 100. TDDs started as an additional way to help expand local infrastructure for economic development. The project and funding should be used on projects approved by the taxing district
In October 2016, and at a cost of $1,100,000, the Columbia City Council voted to expand Flat Branch Park and purchased the building and lot at 32 S. Providence. This property abuts the busy Broadway and Providence intersection. Flat Branch Park, located at Fourth and Locust in downtown Columbia, winds behind the Walton Building, which
