In many ways, Kansas City, Kansas, is a tale of two cities: growing wealth and optimism out west, dilapidation and empty houses in the east. But Mark Holland, city mayor and CEO of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, holds out hope.
"We've never had more capital investment, we've never had more job growth, we've never been on a higher upswing in terms of morale in our community," he says.
At his State of the Government Address on Feb. 28, Holland laid out his plans to keep that momentum going.