The City of Atchison is pleased to welcome Los Angeles, California based, environmentally friendly electric transportation company, Bird Rides, to the Atchison market. Bird intends to bring their shared e-scooters to the city in the coming days. The scooters are available through a mobile phone application and riders pay to use the scooter per minute, at no cost to the...
Success Stories
Historic image credit: @DaveHiner Few real estate development projects cross the finish line without using some kind of development incentive program. The City of Atchison attempts to leverage every possible resource on behalf of developers to see growth in the Atchison community. Theatre Atchison's Fox Movie Theatre is no exception. In fact, the Fox Theatre Project is utilizing at least...
The days of frustrating internet speeds and network connection inconsistencies at the Shannon Industrial Park appear to be over. As of May 1, 2018, fiber internet service with speeds up to 1GB per second upload and download are now available thanks to a public private partnership between the City of Atchison, Atchison County, and Rainbow Communications, which is headquartered in...
The City of Atchison has released a new video promoting the Atchison E-Community Small Business Loan Program. The video features recent downtown startups Muddy River Guitars, a retail guitar and music supply store located in the space above 5th Street Mercantile as well as the Sunflower, an upscale, boutique coffee shop serving local and regional . Both businesses are located...
Summary: Restroom remodels, landscaping improvements, and HVAC optimization. Cost: To preserve the integrity of the bidding process, we avoid publishing detailed estimates prior to the bidding process. Funding: The total budget for these items is about $43,000. Location: Atchison Event Center Contractors: Tate Plumbing, Gerber Electric, Kearney Construction (drywall/ceiling), G.A. Thompson Painting, Reeves-Wiedeman Company (partitions). Status: The restroom remodel project is under construction. Construction Start Date: March...
2016 saw a series of exciting development projects breaking ground in the Atchison community. In April, an $11 million upgrade and expansion to the downtown YMCA broke ground and the project remains on track to open by year end 2017. Concurrently, and just two blocks away, a brand new, 68 room, downtown Holiday Inn Express broke ground in September of 2016 and remains on...