Twin Cities-based outdoor furniture-maker that uses recycled plastic expands to KC

An outdoor furniture company that uses repurposed ocean plastic is expanding to the Kansas City market. After the success of Yardbird’s first retail showroom in St. Louis Park, the company’s founders started looking at other markets in which to expand. They discovered that a disproportionate number of their nationwide customers live in the Kansas City metro, particularly Overland Park, co-founder Jay Dillon told the Kansas City Business Journal.  “That’s why we homed in on Kansas City,”…