Southwest Boulevard (Kansas City)

On the north end Southwest Boulevard starts as 19th Street at Baltimore Avenue in Kansas City, MO, and travels southwest crossing the state line into Kansas City, KS at 31st Street and continues until crossing 39th Avenue at which point it continues as Merriam Lane.

Throughout the Kansas City area, the Boulevard is known for its wide selection of authentic Mexican restaurants and grocery stores.

[3][4] It is the home of the Boulevard Brewing Company which was founded in 1989 and is now one of the largest craft breweries in the USA, with a capacity of over 600,000 barrels per year.

"[6][7][8] One of those landowners was Simeon Bell, who later donated the land upon which Eleanor Taylor Bell Hospital was built on Southwest Boulevard, and which housed the University of Kansas medical school until the 1920s.

[7] The Boulevard twice faced devastation during the 1950s, first by water during the Great Flood of 1951, and then by fire, in 1959, when an oil tanker explosion killed six people and caused widespread property damage.