Standing inside a historic seven-story downtown warehouse undergoing a major renovation as a space for tech startups in Kansas City, Mo., Herb Sih talks about fostering “collision density” in the nation’s heartland.

Sih, managing partner of tech incubator Think Big Partners, hopes the renovation of the 1902 Globe building will help a blossoming community of developers and other tech types in the area collide — in good ways — to inspire the creation of new mobile apps, other software and hardware.

Behind that more immediate goal is a wish to make the downtown area more livable and attractive to young tech types, artists and businesses.

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