Tower proposals are rising up, at least figuratively, around greater downtown Kansas City. Here's an overview of seven plans with known activity in the past year.

Kansas City-Lee's Summit Regional Airport continues making investments to better compete as a regional corporate aircraft hub. It's building hangars, a new terminal and wants to add a control tower.

The Leawood restaurant space has been empty since Hereford House closed in 2024. A popular sports bar may fill it.

A longtime Kansas City lawyer, part of his firm's leadership since the mid-1970s, is found guilty of criminal contempt. A client faced charges of running a deceptive sweepstakes, and the judge says the attorney tried to "wash himself" of an affiliation by manipulating court-ordered disclosures.

California-based Metrobloks will build a $1.4 billion, 568,800-square-foot data center campus in Liberty after a big incentive vote Monday evening. The city pledged $229.2 million in backing.

The Utah-based company plans to anchor a 10-acre retail development near the Missouri Innovation Campus.