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Fbrbes magazine has ranked Kansas City's downtown district as one of the best in the U.S. Apparently, quite a few people agree. Drawn by its leafy parks, museums, theaters and ubiquitous barbeque restaurants, a growing number of people have flocked to the center of Missouri's largest city, leading the population in its downtown to more than double since the beginning of this century. Recently, the district marked another milestone in its renaissance when it saw the opening of its first new church in over 80 years.
The Church of The Resurrection - Downtown, a satellite of its parent church in Leawood, KS, was founded in 2009, but it didn't have a permanent home in the city until June of this year. It opened a new facility at 1601 Grand Boulevard, on a site that was once the Kansas City Star's parking lot. Built at a cost of $10.2 million, the new campus features a flexible color rendering house and stage lighting system installed by Stark Raving Solutions.
* User Friendly and Versatile Lighting
Consistent with the forward-looking spirit of Kansas City, the new church campus incorporates some of the latest technology in its AVL Design. However, the Stark Raving Solutions team and the church's tech arts and facilities director, Kenny DeCoursey, were careful to...