A LINK to success for Liberty Businesses

When I was running a small retail business, I would have loved to have a resource like this,” said Chris Todd, commercial property manager for Curry Real Estate Services, referring to Liberty Economic Development Corporation’s LINK Business Facilitation. “That kind of free, confidential, one-on-one counsel that can help you get through a business pain point is a difference maker.”

Employee Spotlight – Starlene Ramirez

Starlene (Star) Ramirez got out of Dodge, City (Kansas) that is, about 15 years ago and was working for Sprint in cellular sales when she acted on a long-time desire to get into real estate. “When I moved to Overland Park and leased my first apartment, the whole leasing process was interesting to me,” she said. “I am a very big people person. I love people and customer service and I am so into homes, their design and floor plans. I’m living my dream now.”

NNI Formally dedicated the new Raymond R. Brock Jr. Hall in honor of Curry’s Chairman Emeritus

Northland Neighborhoods Inc. (NNI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to neighborhood improvement and revitalization in Clay and Platte counties. Working with residents and organizations to find resources and solutions for better housing, better neighborhoods and better communities.

Spotlight on Curry Team Members That Go Above and Beyond

Remember when the only time we fastened onto the term “essential workers” was in a weather event like a snowmageddon and the city would say to us non-essential types – stay home, off the streets, make way for the really essential people! We just thought they meant mostly folks like emergency responders, snowplow drivers and Quik Trip employees.

Missouri Quality Care Joins the List of Great Curry Tenants

When Jeff Thornton, administrator for Missouri Quality Care, joined the non-profit agency that serves individuals with developmental disabilities, the organization had seven clients and 11 staff based in Cameron, Missouri. Now, it has 45 clients and 160 employees in two markets. Thornton just signed a five-year lease for 4,000 square feet at 2700 NE Kendallwood Parkway in Gladstone, Missouri, managed by Curry Real Estate Services. Missouri Quality Care is another organization that is looking to prepare its future for growth.

Curry’s Drive-Thru Christmas Party

Curry Real Estate Services works hard to show our team how much we appreciate their continued efforts throughout the year. The top team celebration is always the Annual Christmas Party where Curry associates are entertained, find a way to collectively give back and enjoy a fun festive meal. With Covid-19, the 2020 Christmas Party had to take on a different form.rn their lives around. In pivoting to property management, the opportunity to help people multiplied and she was a natural at it.

Signature Landscaping is another Curry vendor giving back during tough times.

If you are among the many who enjoy the landscaping dotting Curry Real Estate Services multi-family and commercial properties, it may be Signature Landscaping’s handiwork.

They don’t mind getting dirty making things pretty and that goes for the company’s management team that stepped up earlier this year to donate their labor and material to refresh the landscaping of a Synergy Services shelter for men, women or children escaping domestic violence.

Empowering its team to do well for others is one way ACE is giving back during the pandemic.

In the pandemic when your team is all day, every day, at your customers’ locations – often three, four or more locations in any given day — you make sure they are well provisioned with personal protective equipment, trained to wear it and dispose of it, to protect themselves and the customers they serve. That discipline gives your field team hyper awareness not only of their own safety precautions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus but they notice how their customers are managing as well.

Zipco Cleaning and Restoration is one of our Top Pics for Vendors doing Good Works in the Pandemic.

You might say Zipco Cleaning and Restoration had something of a head start on pandemic preparedness as its teams use the still in-demand N95 masks when they are on mitigation projects repairing water/flood, fire/smoke and wind/storm damage for their residential, commercial and institutional customers. The company had a supply of these face masks on hand when many organizations were scrambling to build their supply chain for personal protective equipment (PPE).

Tenant Good Works

Small business has been on front lines of the coronavirus, closing during the initial shut down and again later if they fell within sectors deemed riskier for the spread of COVID-19. If open, then they’re investing in changes on the fly as orders from the state, county or city evolve