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 Investments, Hallmark Cards, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City Branch, the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, the Historic Madrid Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre and small businesses like Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, ABC Storage, Contract Furnishings, Children's Campus Center and 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. Founded in 1981, MainCor is the champion and leading community partner of Kansas City's Main Street Corridor working to support commercial, mixed use and residential progress and effective community, economic and aesthetic development that creates and encourages the renewal and vitality of Midtown.