Kansas City Westport Plexpod Kaput

Alternative post title . . .

COVID KILLED KANSAS CITY SHARED OFFICE SPACE!!!

We'll see if new owners can make a horse race of it . . . For now, we share a farewell note to one of many Kansas City redevelopment efforts gone wrong . . .

“We so wanted Plexpod Westport to be the center of the universe for all-things entrepreneurship in Kansas City, but unfortunately COVID proved to be a challenge much greater than we were able to recoup at that location,” Smith, founder of Plexpod, told Startland News.

Businesses and organizations officing at Plexpod Westport (also branded as Plexpod at Park 39) on Tuesday received a notice from the property owner of the Westport campus informing them Plexpod would cease operations at the site Feb. 29.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Plexpod Westport closing Feb. 29; offices to remain but under new management, branding

The spacious classrooms-turned-offices retrofitted for large startup teams at a site once billed as the world's largest coworking space never regained their pre-pandemic demand, said Gerald Smith, confirming the sudden closing of a Plexpod location that for years epitomized Kansas City innovation culture.