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Happy Wednesday. This cooler weather is great, huh?

🧶 Boulevard hosts Hot Grandma Nights this Thursday

☘️ Shamrock Hills Irish Festival returns to Excelsior Springs

⚾️ NLBM expansion and hotel moves forward

🤪 Wacky Wednesday: Satchel Paige Memorial Stadium

Events

Boulevard Brewing Co. Hosts Hot Grandma Nights This Thursday

Boulevard Brewing Co.

Boulevard is hosting Hot Grandma Nights at the Beer Hall this Thursday, from 6-9pm, and you and your grandma are invited.

  • Knit & Sip: Hot Grandma Nights is exactly what it sounds like: an evening dedicated to cozy crafting, game shows, cookies, and cold drinks. Boulevard will be pouring their new Old Fashioned Hard Apple Cider collaboration with Louisburg Cider Mill alongside the full Beer Hall lineup.

  • Crafts & Craft Beer: Grandma crafts are officially cool again. Bring your needlepoint, knitting, crochet, or embroidery project, or pick up a DIY beer cozy kit made with yarn from Scraps KC at the door.

Not a big crafter? Thursday is also Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night from 6-8pm!

The Shamrock Hills Irish Festival is October 3rd in Excelsior Springs

Shamrock Hills Irish Festival

The 3rd Annual Shamrock Hills Irish Festival takes over Shamrock Hills Vineyard & Winery on Saturday, October 3rd, bringing a full day of Irish music, dance, food, and drinks to Excelsior Springs.

  • Irish Spirit: This year’s festival is packed with events for the whole family: two food trucks, three beverage tents (Jameson, Restless Spirits, and Shamrock Hills), Irish dance, face painting, live music, and more. Emmy Award-winning and Kansas Music Hall of Fame icons The Elders will headline on stage beginning at 5:30 pm.

  • Green Gives Back: Shamrock Hills is partnering with Bags of Fun Kansas City, and a portion of festival proceeds will be donated to the organization. Bags of Fun provides children hospitalized with critical illnesses with bags filled with activities and necessary items tailored to each child's individual needs.

Tickets are $20, and kids 10 and under get in free! Get yours HERE.

Development

The New Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and Pennant Hotel Have Their Construction Team

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The NLBM and developer Grayson Capital have named Russell Construction and joint venture Vazquez Grayson as the construction team for the museum’s expansion and neighboring hotel.

  • Building Baseball: The team will lead construction on the new 35,000-square-foot museum facility and the neighboring Pennant Hotel, a 144-room Marriott Tribute Portfolio property designated as the museum’s official hotel. MLB Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson is an equity partner in the hotel.

  • More Than a Game: The museum’s expansion will feature new collections, expanded exhibits, a sports science center for innovative educational programming, a research library & technology center, an event center, and a rooftop area.

Groundbreaking dates and construction timelines are TBD. Stay tuned!

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In Other News…

  • 🍺 Party At The Zoo: Brew at the Zoo returns to the KC Zoo on October 10th — a 21+ evening of unlimited samples from 30+ local breweries and wineries, live music, and food trucks. This year, tickets include access to GloWild: Hidden Treasure!*

  • ⛰️ Mountain Brew: Front Range Coffeehouse & Provisions recently opened its third location inside the Made in KC Marketplace in Lee's Summit at 860-U NW Blue Parkway. Morning coffee, pastries, and breakfast give way to cocktails and beers on tap by evening!*

  • 🍝 Italian Coming Soon: Vertice Italian is coming soon to the Country Club Plaza, and is giving a sneak preview and taste at the Plaza Art Fair this weekend.

  • 🐢 Turtle Power: Atlas9 is screening the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the Holomax screen next Wednesday, September 30th. Doors at 6:30pm, showtime at 7pm. Tickets start at $9 and include admission to Atlas9.

  • 🥤 Caution: Soda on the Road: A portion of I-29 was closed yesterday morning after a tractor-trailer filled with Pepsi overturned, spilling soda all over the road. No injuries were reported.

  • 🎡 Gardner's Goes Big: Gardner City Council unanimously approved rezoning 214 acres along I-35 for the Velocity Arts entertainment district — 15,000-seat concert pavilion, 2,500-seat performing arts center, a 300-key hotel, and more.

  • 🚀 Take Off: Every morning, KC Daily lands in the inbox of {{active_subscriber_count}} locals, and you could too! Partnering with KC Daily gets your business, event, or brand in front of an active, KC-loving audience.

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Wacky Wednesday 🤪

A 4,000-seat baseball stadium built in 1938 is tucked inside a neighborhood near Swope Parkway and E. 51st St.

Satchel Paige Memorial Stadium was named after the iconic Negro Leagues player on June 5th, 1982 (he passed away just three days later), and has served a variety of purposes since its opening. Most recently, it served as the home of the Kansas City Hermigas, a Class B baseball team with the Pecos League.

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