The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 27

-j WVVWKANSASCITYCOM Numbarof ETFs THE KANSAS CriY STAR THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 2007 -re a i l-i 99 D1 tB I 1 Souice Mombijjt j1 HmutfijulrJl S' -V Mill rvi haw all the support we need Wrte elated" The focal congressional del-' egatfon and GSA officials have-been working since early last year on a plan to keep the tnfr dear weapons fadlity in Kansas City The plant is currently housed in a sprawling complex at the Bannister Federal Complex originally built in 1943 to manufacture engines for fighter aircraft After World Whr the facil i Plan for $500 million weapons parts plant iwar Rkhards-Gebaur clears key hurdle Cl o' Court rejects challenge to KCK casino C1 Existing home sales post a record plunge C2 Shares of Euronet Worldwide surge 16 percent on earnings report C3 Stocks recover from early 200-polnt deficit I C4 A federal agency OKs a plan near the old Rkhards-Gebaur airport site By KEVIN COLUSON The Kansas City Star Flans to build a $500 million nuclear weapons parts plant in south Kansas City and preserve at least 2XX) jobs in the area on Wednesday won a pivotal endorsement 7 l- I PROPOSED NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANT HO 47th St MOAHMbSSERjTHE KANSAS CITY STM to KCK casino WYANDOTTE COUNTY GAMBLING proposal revised court hiling favors Wyandotte Nation f- TwM r-4 TSSSSKfLSarilSSSSf jf V1' ity evolved to become a major facility where non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons were manufactured At the" height of the Cold War in die 1980s more than people worked there In recent years however that work force has dwindled to 2fi00 people and there had been active consideration to -close the plant and relocate its SEE NUKE CS Ravistd West Pkwy the Ml The federal Office of Management and Budget baa accepted the plan to build a new plant near the former Rkh-ards-Gebaur Memorial Airport and sent it to Congress for final review said Brad Scott regional administrator for the General Services Administration is a significant hurdle having the OMB sign off on the Scott said an important step but we believe we Kansas Speedway coamscoHPNv preparing a revised plat to file with the Wyandotte County Unffiad Government The speedway group instead will offer a 120-acre casino project in much die same iprojc ibut area but minus any land taken under eminent domain hundred percent of it is not on eminent domain said time he said he was sure Eminent domain questions SEE LAND C6 ---rvc -ye-K fj for high hopes Say goodbye to the flowing white "HoMay Inn script on a green back- ground The chain now part of NitafContinantal Hotels Group Pit will get $1 billion in renovations including its first new logo a stylized white on a green square InterContinental said it expected the upgrade to increase business at Its more than 3000 Holiday Inns and Holiday Inns Express locations I From wire services SUITING BOUNDARIES The Kansas Speedway group had intended to avoid land taken by eminent domain in putting together its casino 1 proposal But it recently discovered its plan did include- such land so it is revising the proposal i I i 3 I i i-:" ByRICKALM i The Kama City Star A federal appeals court has dis- missed the state of dec- ade-old legal challenge to the 7th Street Casino in Kansas City Kan In a ruling posted on its Web site late Wednesday the 10th cult Court of Appeals ruled that it and the district court in Topeka that heard the case had no diction in the tribal gaming dispute The appeals court ordered challenge dismissed It was unclear what happens next No lawyers involved in the case could be readied late Wednesday The state could ap-: peal the decision to the U5 Supreme Court The Oklahoma-based Wyandotte Nation tribal owners of the would-be casino structure have been remodeling the former Ma- sonic temple since spring and have announced a tentative December opening The tribe earlier this year also reached an agreement with' Wyandotte Unified Government to share casino profits in exchange for police fire utility and other municipal services State officials have challenged -the de facto reservation sta- tus since it was granted by the federal government in the mid-1990s SEE CASINO CS eminent Plat avoids condemned aroas which officials had pladgad would not bo used for gambling ByRICKALM The Kansas City Star When Kansas Speedway officials recently announced their proposal for a casino they pledged that no gambling would occur on land that was taken nine years ago in eminent domain pro- GENTRY MULLEN I THE KANSAS CffY STM -j state Aw keys: Land acquired byvminent 1 domain Kama Spaadmy 'SpaidvW vA Village 1 By JENNIFER MANN The Kansas CKy Star Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes is bringing her distinctive sassitude to as the voice of a in an advertising campaign that breaks next week Sjdtes gives her voice to what the struggling chain is betting on becoming an iconic campaign a talking apple that tells people what it loves about the menu and ambience This is the first new major campaign for the Overland Park-based chain since mid-2006 and the first work from Interna-ttonaPs newest advertising OVER40 CROWD FACES BARRIERS Oops Speedway President Jeff' Boerger acknowledged Wednesday that his casino group which includes the CofdUi Co recently discovered that some land con-' demned back in 1998 for the was included in the ISO acres earmarked for the casino hotel and retail shopping mall proposal lb remedy that he said the speedway and its casino partners have been busy this week DIANE STAFFORD v'V'T Fm talking about TheyVe been vice presidents department heads and project managers Many have advanced degrees Is it age discrimination? SEE STAFFORD C6 McCann Erickson Ap- which spends about million a year on advertising is using the campaign that McCann Erickson pitched to win the account The New York firm was hired after what was considered an abysmal and embarrassing campaign last year called "Two That effort was panned by the advertising trade press and later by the chief executive and pulled shortly after SEE APPLE C6 Wanda syka 1' supposed to be a for talent" going on but I keep meeting who cant get drafted to serve Businesses say they need to attract and keep experienced willing workers and that they're dreading the exodus of the baby boomers from the work fence But day after day I hear from experienced willing professionals age 40 and up who 1 have been let go Some have been job hunting for two years To be dear about the kind of OSTO RNEW StP RESS tx -rf-M -s.