Welcome to Investors Ignite! This section is dedicated to highlighting exciting news and information about LSEDC investors. If you have recently received an award or honor, introduced a new product or service, been featured in the newspaper, on TV or radio, email to share your story.

R&D Tool Featured in Trade Publication The September 8 issue of Plastics News featured LSEDC investor R&D Tool. R&D provides expert technical solutions to the global plastics industry, offering a wide range of products and design solutions to packaging, design, food and beverage, cosmetics, household, medical and personal care ma... Read more>   Missouri Chamber of Commerce Recognizes Lee's Summit and Acceleration Each year the Missouri Chamber of Commerce presents a Chamber of the Year Award and the Lee's Summit Chamber is this year's recipient! They also present the Missouri Chamber Fast Track Awards to recognize Missouri companies that have experienced phenomenal growth over the last three years. This year... Read more>   More Retail Tenants Commit to Summit Fair Lifestyle Center RED Development recently announced that Coldwater Creek, DSW, Ulta, Jos A. Bank, American Eagle and Victoria's Secret will join Macy's and JC Penney at the Summit Fair Lifestyle Center. These tenants ... Read more>   Plastic Enterprises Celebrates Multi-Million Dollar Facility Expansion To support its rapid growth, Plastic Enterprises has recently completed a 108,000 square foot expansion project, doubling the size of its Lee's Summit facility. Plastic Enterprises manufactures rigid plastic packaging for the food industry, supplying containers and lids to many Fortune 100 companies... Read more>   Gale Home Builders Featured on National Television Kevin Enyeart, Vice President and General Manager of Gale Home Builders, was recently featured on ABC World News with Charles Gibson. The segment focused on the growing housing market in the Midwest and featured the New Longview residential project in Lee's Summit being developed by Gale C... Read more>   Angel Investor Network Launches in Eastern Jackson County At a recent board of directors retreat, the Lee's Summit Economic Development Council identified the need for an angel investor network that serves Western Missouri and Eastern Jackson County - and to... Read more>   Affinis Named as Best Civil Engineering Firm to Work For LSEDC Investor Affinis Corp. was recently recognized by CE News as the "Best Firm to Work For in Civil Engineering" - for the second year in a row! Headquartered in Overland Park with an office in Lee... Read more>   LSEDC Angel Investor ViraCor Laboratories was named as the Life Sciences Award Winner in the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the Central Midwest region! Winners are recogniz... Read more>

BusinessWeek Names Lee's Summit Best Place in Missouri to Raise Kids
Lee's Summit was recently featured in BusinessWeek magazine as Missouri's best affordable town for r... Read more >

Free Wi-Fi Now Available in Downtown Lee's Summit
On November 1, the City of Lee's Summit - partnered with the Lee's Summit Economic Development Counc... Read more >

KC Star Features Show Me Angels
Thanks to media relations outreach by LSEDC, the November 4 issue of the Kansas City Star featured a... Read more >

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