“There’s a lot of potentially limiting factors that could be in her way and she has found a way to rise above everything and compete successfully,” one of the judges said of Fahteema Parrish.
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Parrish & Sons Construction was named the 2023 Small Business of the Year by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, making it the first Black woman-owned business to win the honor.
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Fahteema Parrish, the owner of Parrish & Sons Construction, says that COVID-19 has caused constant disruptions in her business, even as her employees try to keep up with shifting safety protocols.
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Fahteema Parrish and her company, Parrish and Sons Construction Co., is playing a key role in the Kansas City International Airport project.
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At 1 million sq. ft. and with a budget of $1.5 billion, the new
Kansas City Airport is impressive enough, but add in a female construction workforce larger than most any in the United States and you've got a project in a league of its own.
"When Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate was selected as the developer of the new $1.5 billion Kansas City International airport, it promised the project would reach historic and transformative levels of diversity, spurring economic growth for minority and women-owned businesses in Kansas City," said Geoff Stricker, Edgemoor senior managing director. "We have delivered on that promise. The number of women in the project's construction workforce is three times the national average. The national average is 2.5 percent while the KCI project has around eight percent. Fifty-four
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LaTasha Crawford's business has seen its ups and downs during the pandemic, but she said the janitorial side of her operation saw a solid increase in demand.
Despite the economic pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and decades of discriminatory disadvantage, Black businesses owners in Kansas City are staying resilient.
LaTasha Crawford isn't a doctor or scientist, but she is in the business of killing viruses.
Crawford is the owner of Miscellaneous Staffing Services, which does janitorial and staffing work throughout the metro.
"It is a pandemic, and so I think there is a huge demand to sanitize, to decontaminate areas," she said. "Here we are available, you know, to provide people that's going to help go in there and kill that virus."