OVERLAND PARK, KN-The reinsurance company restructures into four separate entities: Western Hemisphere property and casualty, Europe and Asia property and casualty reinsurance, commercial operations and global health and life reinsurance.

KANSAS CITY-Business owners and nearby residents voice their overwhelming approval of a $684-million light rail system down Main Street. The plan may go before voters later this year.

OVERLAND PARK, KN-Morgan Hunter Companies is moving from leased space here to a 20,000-sf building at 7600 W. 110th St. Although its three subsidiaries will occupy most of the space, there's room for two tenants.

OVERLAND PARK, KN-The Corporate Woods business park here is getting a new Web site listing its available space, building designs, floor plans, concierge services and other information.

KANSAS CITY-Five local stores are affected, including locations at Oak Park Mall, Ward Parkway Shopping Center, Metro North Shopping Center, Blue Ridge Mall and Indian Springs Marketplace.

KANSAS CITY-Planners here are putting this once-thriving neighborhood on the city's east side under the microscope, hoping to pump "new blood" into the area along the major north-south artery.

KANSAS CITY-Ronald E. Rutledge, who has served as president of Vistawall Group, has been named company executive vice president for the parent Butler Manufacturing Co., which produces materials for builders of non-residential properties.

KANSAS CITY-The pace of speculative building construction may slow a little this year after peaking in 2000. Still, there is some spec building going on throughout the area, particularly Johnson County and the Northland.