Kansas Leadership Center

GROUNDBREAKING EVENT JULY 25, 2012


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GROUNDBREAKING NEWS

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Kansas Leadership Center Rendering
Rendering of the new Kansas Leadership Center and Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center at the corner of Douglas and Topeka
Kansas Leadership Center and Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center

 

The Kansas Health Foundation broke ground on the Kansas Leadership Center (KLC) and Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, July 25. Affectionately nicknamed "the living room of Kansas" by Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, the new building will also serve as KLC's headquarters.


The 36,000-square-foot LEED-certified Center will be built on the parking lot adjacent to the Foundation's building at 309 East Douglas in downtown Wichita. The Foundation owns the land.

 

KLC expects to bring about 1,000 Kansans a year to its headquarters for leadership training programs, and additional people for meetings and conferences, including alumni meetings. It has more than 1,500 alumni throughout Kansas.

 

The Kansas Leadership Center and Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center supports a major initiative of Project Downtown, The Master Plan of Wichita, designed to develop the city's business district.

 

Since Project Downtown was adopted, Wichita is now seeing the first complete development of the first full city block in Downtown. To showcase this achievement, the core group leading the development in this area announced today they have selected the name Block One to be used as a reference location point when speaking of the major organizations and tenants that are members of the block. 

 

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View KLC and KHF Conference Center Building Fact Sheet

 

View Level 1 Blueprint

 

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GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO

Project Downtown Caution Tape
Kansas Health Foundation Expansion Groundbreaking
Mayor Carl Brewer at the
Groundbreaking

 

Mayor Carl Brewer today at the groundbreaking for the Kansas Leadership Center and Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center he previously nicknamed "the living room of Kansas."

GROUNDBREAKING PHOTOS

Project Downtown Caution Tape
Kansas Health Foundation Expansion
Steve Coen, President and CEO of the Kansas Health Foundation, "Our goal is to create a space where dedicated individuals throughout the state can gather in comfort to have important conversations about the future of Kansas communities and develop solutions to grow the healthiest Kansas possible." Read more
Kansas Health Foundation Expansion

 

Jeff Fluhr, President of the Wichita Downtown Development Corporation, "To recognize this major milestone of the development of an entire city block, we have named and branded it Block One." Read more

Kansas Health Foundation Expansion
From left to right: Wichita Vice Mayor Janet Miller, Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, President and CEO of Kansas Health Foundation Steve Coen, Wichita City Councilwoman Lavonta Williams, President and CEO of Kansas Leadership Center Ed O'Malley
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A milestone we've worked together as a community to achieve. Project Downtown: The Master Plan for Wichita. The plan focuses on key areas of our downtown, illustrating the potential we have as a community to grow. The plan has overwhelming support from the private and public sectors. A blueprint for our future, it benefits the public and private sector when making decisions, being strategic with public sector investment so we, as a community, maximize private sector investment.



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