The Excelsior Springs City Council recently approved issuance of a grant geared to improving visitor experience in the city’s downtown district. The council agreed issuance a $50,000 grant from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to Downtown Excelsior Partnership (DEP) to install a new wayfinding system. Although agreeing to the proposal, Councilman Mark Spohn abstained from the voting on the matter. “I am on the design committee for DEP and I did not want there to be any conflict of interest,” he said. According to the project summary, the DEP, Inc, worked with FORA Planning & Design through a grant obtained from the Missouri Main Street Connection and Economic Development Administration to complete a city-wide wayfinding study. The intention of the Wayfinding Plan for Downtown Excelsior Springs is to give orientation to visitors and local citizens of the wonderful and growing downtown district. Fostering better directi...