Kansas continues trying to bring Missouri businesses across state line

On Aug. 10, the Kansas Commerce Department sent a letter addressed to the Downtown Council Community Improvement District — in Kansas City, Mo. — encouraging it to call if there was anything the agency could do to help.

There’s nothing the Kansas Commerce Department can do to help organizations in Missouri outside of providing assistance — mostly in the form of tax incentives — for a business looking to expand or relocate into Kansas.

Missouri businesses do move to Kansas from time to time with help from the Kansas Commerce Department; its letter referenced AMC Entertainment, which moved from downtown Kansas City to Leawood in 2013.

Still, it’s difficult to imagine how or why an entity like the downtown CID, which collects taxes to fund various services in downtown Kansas City’s south loop, would have an interest in a presence in Kansas.

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