It’s been five years since the Ruskin Hills neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, had a new business come in. It was a Burger King.
The Ruskin Hills neighborhood is in one of the 8,762 Opportunity Zones recently identified by state governors across the United States and Puerto Rico. The federal government created the idea of Opportunity Zones as an economic development tool, which was added to the tax code by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December of 2017, to relieve economically distressed communities.
