{"id":39505,"date":"2025-08-25T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swopehealth.org\/?p=39505"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:17:12","slug":"one-on-one-with-swope-health-tracey-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swopehealth.org\/one-on-one-with-swope-health-tracey-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"One-on-one with Swope Health: Tracey Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Swope Health announces a new edition of its podcast, One on One with Swope Health, featuring a conversation with Tracey Lewis, president and CEO of the Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City<\/a>, also known as EDCKC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Wesson, founder and publisher of The Next Page KC, a newspaper focused on the Black community, hosts the show\u2019s conversations with Kansas Citians about issues of importance to the community\u2019s health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis, a native of Boston, talks about how easy it was to fall in love with Kansas City, which, he says, has the right amount of large city experiences as well as family and career experiences \u2013 without some of the negatives like gridlock traffic. He describes Kansas City as the \u201ccore Midwest,\u201d addressing a large central region that spans from Minneapolis to Dallas with a culture that is less aggressive than some (like Columbus or Indianapolis) and a bit more resistant to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the airport as an example: he recalled the difficulty in convincing people of the need for a new airport, but now that it\u2019s done, he notes how locals love to brag about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis also notes pointedly that economic development has been slow in the core of the city, especially in the urban areas of the East Side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to do more to support the Third and Fifth districts,\u201d he said. \u201cThe entire city has to do more to support the East Side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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