Kansas City World Cup Winning Skips Troost

Urban biz report low expectations and even worse results . . . 

"The point was to see if Kansas City’s role as a World Cup host city — which involved a significant investment from federal, state and city coffers — paid economic dividends along a street long acknowledged as the dividing line between the haves and the have nots.

But in contrast to some of their peers in other parts of the city, Troost business owners largely took it in stride that they did not see a bump in sales from the World Cup."

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Troost Avenue businesses miss out on World Cup bump

Owners of business on Troost Avenue said they didn't expect a surge of customers from the World Cup anyway.