Independence has more history per block than anywhere else in the metro. The Square still works as a downtown. The Truman Library and the Truman home bring people in from out of state. The city hosts things — festivals, community gatherings, receptions in buildings older than most of the metro's cities.
That's a different job than a corporate campus. The person organizing an Independence event is usually doing it on top of their actual job, in a venue that was never built with vendors in mind. So we bring our own setup and take it away again. The organizer gets to attend the thing they organized.