WELCOME TO MAINCOR

Our Story

Main Street is the most significant street in Kansas City, historically and in the future. It links special places in Kansas City like the River Market, Downtown, Crown Center and The Country Club Plaza. It is also an important corporate and commercial corridor in its own right mixing corporate headquarters of American Century, Hallmark Cards, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City Branch, with the world renown blues venue, The Grand Emporium, the Historic Madrid Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre and small businesses like Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, ABC Storage, Contract Furnishings and the new Conklin Fangman Motors, to name a few. Surrounding the eclectic mix are lovely historic neighborhood districts of Southmoreland, Old Hyde Park, Union Hill and Heart of Westport.

The Main Street Corridor Development Corporation (MainCor) is a not for profit Community Development Corporation. It was founded in 1981 to provide support and technical assistance to encourage effective economic development along the Main Street Corridor from The Plaza to Crown Center. MainCor brings together the corporations, small businesses, institutions, adjacent neighborhood associations and various City agencies to share a common goal - to make the Corridor a safe, clean, inviting place for people to visit, shop and live. This is partly accomplished through monthly coffees, business lunches and The Corridor, MainCor's newsletter.

MainCor membership is offered to all business owners, property owners and friends of the Corridor.

Boundaries

MainCor's boundaries are 27th to 47th Streets and one-half block deep east and west of Main Street. Boundaries of the Main Street Corridor Land Use and Development Plan are 27th to 47th Streets, Gillham to Broadway.