CityScene KC, an online news source covering downtown KC.

Kevin Collison has been a journalist for more than 35 years. He was a newspaper reporter in Omaha and Buffalo, NY, before coming to Kansas City to work at The Kansas City Star in 2001. He covered development for the newspaper and was responsible for reporting about the major downtown revitalization effort that began under former Mayor Kay Barnes shortly after his arrival. It included the development of the Power & Light District, Sprint Center, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the renovation of scores of historic buildings into apartments, hotels and offices. He left The Star in mid-2014 and after a short stint in corporate communications at Burns & McDonnell returned to journalism as freelance reporter for KCUR and KCPT/Flatland in early 2016. In June 2017, he launched CityScene KC, an online news source covering greater downtown Kansas City. It now reaches an average of 1,000 to 2,000 readers daily and has more than 3,000 weekly email subscribers and 500 paid subscribers. Kevin is a native of Omaha, graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York and is a recipient of the George K. Polk Award for Local Reporting, one of the nation’s top journalism awards. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in a condo overlooking Mill Creek Park and are looking forward to the day the streetcar opens its extension from downtown to UMKC.