Garment District (Kansas City, Missouri)

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official_name = Kansas City Garment District
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subdivision_name = United States
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subdivision_name1 = Missouri
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subdivision_name3 = Kansas City
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latd= 39 |latm= 06 |lats= 18 |latNS= N
longd= 94 |longm= 35 |longs= 17 |longEW= W
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demographics = The Kansas City Garment District is located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri to the east of Quality Hill, across Broadway Boulevard. In the 1930s several large clothing manufacturers clustered here, making Kansas City's garment district second only to New York City's in size. Today, this heritage is commemorated by an oversize needle and thread monument. [cite news |author= Jerry LaMartina |title=Garment District group dedicates sculpture, opens museum |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2002/09/30/daily58.html |work=Kansas City Business Journal |date=October 4 2002 |accessdate=2008-04-14] Its old industrial buildings have since been redeveloped into loft apartments, office, and restaurants. [cite news |author=Julian Mincer |title= Focus: Kansas City; Housing Just a Walk From Jobs |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFD9123BF931A15752C1A961948260 |work=The New York Times |date=November 22 1987 |accessdate=2008-04-14] Henry Perry, father of Kansas City-style barbecue got his start in 1908 from a stand in an alley in the neighborhood. [cite web |url=http://kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=212544 |title=Biography of Henry Perry, 1875-1940. Restaurateur. |work=Local History |author=Daniel Coleman |year=2005 |publisher=Kansas City Public Library |accessdate=2008-04-14]

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