Columbia’s Parks and Recreation department has 78 parks, ranging from its largest, Cosmo park, to 20 neighborhood parks. It has 82 full-time employees and another approximately 600 …
Read More »Columbia Sports Fieldhouse improvement project approved by city council
Columbia’s city council has given the green light to a $5.8 million improvement project at the busy Columbia Sports Fieldhouse in Perry Philips park. That’s new Highway …
Read More »Columbia city officials unveil proposed $6-million improvement at Philips park
A proposed $5.8 million improvement project at south Columbia’s sports fieldhouse in A. Perry Philips park will be voted on in April by the city council. The …
Read More »Multi-million dollar bank project highlights enormous growth near Columbia’s Discovery Parkway
An area business leader who’s the local president of Missouri’s ninth-largest bank predicts that several thousand residents will soon be living in an area of southeast Columbia …
Read More »(AUDIO): Columbia Parks director discusses fairgrounds, park sales tax and pickleball on 939 the Eagle
Gabe Huffington became acting director of Columbia Parks and Recreation on April 4. Mr. Huffington was in-studio for the hour Saturday morning on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO …
Read More »Columbia’s city council to tackle use tax ballot measure and Kitchen development on Monday
Columbia city leaders say vendors outside city limits and internet-based vendors have a competitive advantage over Columbia vendors because they don’t have to charge the local sales …
Read More »Developer wants to bring ice rink and bocce ball to Columbia
A proposed development in south Columbia involving an ice rink, music stage, bocce ball, pickleball and a two-story restaurant heads to the city council for a January …
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