Blog

Streamline The Vision

It's a big building. It's a bit overwhelming. A streamlined vision helps encourage us in our planning.

Grinding Along

Outdoor rock shows, storage space, and exploring ideas is the grind right now.

The Historic Building Is Now Officially Historic

The PRESS Outdoor Music Venue

Since we can't host shindigs inside, we started The PRESS outdoor music venue.

August AG Press Update

Our inspiration is The Bauer, a venue in Kansas City where Derek’s brother, Sean got married. This gave us focus and energy! We set a meeting with our architect to start work on those concepts.

Our First Event

Derek wanted to make it into a place where families can come and be together. We have Aggieville which is primarily for college students and Ft. Riley soldiers and downtown which has become a great place for people who don’t want to go to Aggieville, but is still not a place that kids really want to go...

Things We Are Throwing Around...

A place where each member of a family wants to go, a dog park, good food (food trucks?), a wedding venue, bringing more musicians and entertainers to town, and preserving an old building in Manhattan are all things we are thinking about with this dream.

Why We Purchased the AG Press Building

Derek wanted to make it into a place where families can come and be together. We have Aggieville which is primarily for college students and Ft. Riley soldiers and downtown which has become a great place for people who don’t want to go to Aggieville, but is still not a place that kids really want to go...