US Airways customers will have more travel options beginning Jan. 17, 2009, at all three Washington-area airports as record crowds are expected to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama.
Customers will benefit from both more frequency and on some flights, larger aircraft, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, and Baltimore [...]

Cedar Fair Entertainment Company a publicly traded leader in regional amusement parks, water parks and vacation resorts, has announced plans for $62 million in new attractions, roller coasters and family rides in 2009.
The highlight of the 2009 capital program will be Diamondback, a $22 million roller coaster that will rise above the landscape at [...]

Kansas City — 3838 Partners LLC is converting the Rainbow Tower, an apartment complex in Kansas City, into the Vista Condominiums. The $5-million project is the first-ever high-rise condo conversion in Wyandotte County.
The first phase of the project is slated to be ready for occupancy by July, with the majority of the common areas completed [...]

A Kansas City agency on Friday cut a Crossroads Arts District condominium developer’s 25-year tax abatement request by 15 years.
The Planned Industrial Expansion Authority abated taxes on improvements at 2109 Broadway for 10 years. Developer Andrew Haden had also sought a 50 percent abatement for the succeeding 15 years.
The authority’s standard abatement [...]

Like a cat with nine lives, the venerable downtown Aladdin Hotel will reopen — again — on May 4.
The event will mark the 193-room, 16-story tower’s second go-round as a Holiday Inn franchise after two stints as Embassy on the Park, a stretch under the Days Inn flag and most recently as the independent Citi [...]

The Carrier Hotel Alliance (CHA) announced today that it has expanded its membership to include 1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s largest carrier-neutral interconnection facility. 1102 GRAND will debut its new participation in the CHA suite at the 2007 Global Telecommunications Meeting (GTM) May 21-24 in Washington, DC.
Comprised of representatives from some of the largest network interconnection [...]

The Kansas City Council on Thursday approved The Cordish Co.’s plans for a condominium-hotel tower in the Power & Light District.
The proposal, which includes as many as 350 condo units and a four-star hotel northwest of 13th and Walnut streets, on the block formerly occupied by a Jones Store Co. department store, will seek public [...]

The Cordish Co.’s plans to build a condominium-hotel tower in the Power & Light District will need to be approved by Kansas City’s new City Council.
The current council could pass an ordinance supporting the proposed building on Thursday. But the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City won’t be able to consider amending the district’s [...]

A second lawsuit has been filed in federal court against NovaStar Financial Inc. by an investor alleging that certain company executives made false and misleading public statements about the company’s financial status.
Investor Gary Tanner, who is represented by Kenneth Nelson of the Kansas City-based Nelson Law Firm PC, filed the case Monday in U.S. District [...]

Investor Robert W. Boyd III filed a lawsuit Friday against NovaStar Financial Inc. alleging that certain company executives made false and misleading public statements about the company’s financial status.
Boyd and his attorneys, from Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, filed the case Friday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. [...]

Wissy Wendt, Long Realty Co.’s president since 2005, said past chronological benchmarks in her life were no big deal.
Thirty? Fine. Forty? No problem. Fifty? She took it “pretty well.”
“But I’m turning 60, and I’m going, ‘Ay yai yai!’ It’s a huge benchmark for me, for whatever reason,” Wendt said.
And so, after seven years with Long [...]

One of Kansas City’s biggest commercial real estate investment guns is reloading.
Ken Block, a principal with Block & Co. Inc. Realtors, said Tuesday that he’s preparing to launch a third investment fund to buy property in Kansas City and elsewhere.
“We’re not out here to compete with the really big guys,” Block said. [...]