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Paseo West

An employment center, home to many light industrial businesses with deep roots in the city, and the site of many social service providers.

Neighborhood Meeting:
Date: 3rd Wednesday of every month
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Arts Asylum, 1000 E. 9th St., Kansas City, Missouri, 64106

Independence Plaza Neighborhood

A close-knit residential neighborhood with historic housing stock and important service providers like the new, $25 million Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center.

Neighborhood Meeting:
Date: 2nd Thursday of every month
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: on Zoom

Pendleton Heights

A residential neighborhood that was the first suburb of Kansas City; prior to its incorporation within Kansas City, local elites built grand Victorian mansions in this neighborhood that sits on bluffs high above the Missouri River. Many of those homes are still standing, but are now adjacent to bungalows built for factory and stockyard employees.

Neighborhood Meeting:
Date: 2nd Tuesday of every month
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: PH Coffee, 2200 Lexington Ave, Kansas City, MO

Members of the Gateway Advisory Council are stakeholders from the Choice Neighborhood which include: Chouteau Courts residents, Paseo West Neighborhood Association, Pendleton Heights Neighborhood Association,, Independence Plaza Neighborhood Council, Somali American Association, Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, Central Bank, Central Baptist Church, Housing Authority of Kansas City, City of KCMO, Local Initiative Support Corporation, Brinshore Development, Westside Housing, Zahner, Jerusalem Farm, Scuola Vita Nova, Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Greater Kansas City and The Mattie Rhodes Center.

In addition to the Gateway Advisory Council there are also supporting partners: St. Luke’s Hospital, American Heart Association, Charlotte Street Foundation, BikeWalkKC and The Downtown Council.