Author: Don Muret

Take Me to the River

Angie Long remembers her high school days playing soccer in Kansas City, wearing jerseys handed down from the boys’ junior varsity team. Long, co-owner of the Kansas City Current, a National Women’s Soccer League team, never dreamed of competing in the first purpose-built venue for a women’s pro sports team, but here she is, poised to make history with the opening of CPKC Stadium, a landmark project on multiple levels. Continue Reading Take Me to the River

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2024 Women Of Live: Meghan Duarte-Silva

Meghan Duarte-Silva Project Architect | Perkins & Will Meghan Duarte-Silva has a leg up on key pieces of sports development after combining disciplines in structural engineering and public assembly design during her college...

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2024 Women Of Live: Susie Sieger

Susie Sieger President/Owner | Crossroads Consulting Services When Susan Sieger started as a facility development consultant in the late 1980s, there were no women in her field. Thirty-five years later, no other woman heads a...

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2024 Women Of Live: Emma Castro-Krivanek

Emma Castro-KrivanekAssociate Principal, Senior Architect | Populous Emma Castro-Krivanek’s obsession with the Olympics as a youngster, starting with the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain, helped inspire her to become a...

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A’s in Vegas: climate controlled seats, most premium in MLB

The newest renderings of the Oakland A’s proposed ballpark in Las Vegas show a flashy design with a newfangled roof enclosure and baseball’s biggest videobard. There are functional features as well to keep the building cool and generate revenue in one of the world’s biggest tourist destinations at a venue featuring MLB’s highest proportion of premium seats, according to A’s President Dave Kaval. Continue Reading A’s in Vegas: climate controlled seats, most premium in MLB

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