45th Annual Conference

JUNE 2 – 5, 2016 – Kansas City, Missouri

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KANSAS CITY TOUR SITES

Manufacturing & Power
General Motors Plant
Subtropolis/Hunt Midwest (subterranean industrial park)
Veolia Energy
Power House Ballet (in 1914 power plant)

Historic Kansas City and Surrounds
McCormick Distilling Company
Watkins Woolen
Tension Envelope (envelopes)

Roasting, Brewing & Technology
The Roasterie (coffee roaster)
Ryerson Metals
Zahner Sheet Metal
8th Street Tunnel
Boulevard Brewery

Goods Manufacturing
Faultless Starch/Bon
Ford Motor Plant
Vita Craft (cookware)
Kansas City Star Printing Plant
Rieger Distillery

Historic Bridges
ASB Bridge
Broadway Bridge
12th Street Trafficway
Hannibal Bridge
Truman Lift Bridge
Waddell A-Truss
Highline Bridge

Additional Tour Sites
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Manufacturing
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Liberty Memorial and WWI Museum
Harley Davidson
Fort Leavenworth
Missouri River Tour with Healthy River Partnerships
Library District
Freight House District

Captions: (top) SIA 45th Annual Conference logo by Elizabeth Linden Rahway of Graphic Engineering; (below) historic aerial photograph of Pratt & Whitney Manufacturing complex.