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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Urban Living
- Topic: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 288
Re: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
(I don’t count the Stray Cat, because I’ve visited basements with a larger projector setup) Not sure how you can't count Stray Cat. Exhibition has changed so much since the pandemic. By this definition there's no theater anywhere in the urban core other than B&B. There is also a movie theater a...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Urban Living
- Topic: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 288
Re: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
So what makes the Crossroads an “Arts” district? The Crossroads used to be mostly a warehouse district containing a variety of businesses including Film Row, which were a bunch of buildings housing regional film distribution and exhibition offices for big Hollywood studios. People who owned and ope...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
- Replies: 150
- Views: 29059
Re: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
It's been under state control for more than 80 years. KC is now the only city in the USA under state control. There isn't any justification for KCPD being under state control. Kansas City's elected leadership has no say about hiring or firing the police chief, how the police leadership sets policy, ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
- Replies: 150
- Views: 29059
Re: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
Some of the highest crime rates are in so-called red states. It's not just as easy as what party is in control. New York State and New York City have among the lowest crime rates in the country, and lower than many so-called "red" states. More often it has more to do with the poverty rate,...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:21 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Parade Park
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1055
Re: Parade Park
HUD takes over and installs a Virginia firm to manage Kansas City's troubled Parade Park Homes [quote ]After decades of neglect and decay amid turmoil among the management of one of the country’s oldest Black-owned housing cooperatives, Parade Park Homes has been taken under federal control. ... Th...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Tracks 215 Project
- Replies: 276
- Views: 117460
Re: Tracks 215 Project
Thanks for all the photos today Chris. How about swinging over to Beacon Hill and updating us on new houses on Forest Avenue? https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0795359,-94.5688881,484a,35y,90h/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu And new houses in the Plaza Heights neighborhood north of 45th Street to Corbin Terra...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Condos near Federal Reserve
- Replies: 123
- Views: 28310
Re: Condos near Federal Reserve
I can't remember. Are they also tearing down that garage on 31st and Baltimore?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 255590
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
That structure was built in 1910 as the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company Building. The downtown airport wasn't built until 1927.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Scene
- Topic: wtf is happening to w. 39th?!
- Replies: 596
- Views: 179750
Re: wtf is happening to w. 39th?!
Build more dense apartments along Southwest Trafficway south of Penn Valley Community College.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 255590
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
Essentially, with a gutted Weld Building, a developer is getting a multi-story concrete and steel frame already constructed. Put a new facade on it. It's also a structure that would have interesting views from the upper floors.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 255590
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
Some of the complaints about the building were graffiti and missing windows. The same thing was said about The View before it was renovated.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: 3rd & Grand to be redeveloped as TOD
- Replies: 308
- Views: 99520
Re: 3rd & Grand to be redeveloped as TOD
I like that Chinese market.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 255590
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
Breaking the wheel: Demolition starts on West Bottoms building ahead of $526.7M development SomeraRoad Inc. has started tearing down the former Weld Wheel Industries Inc. building as a precursor to the first projects in its $526.7 million West Bottoms plan. Workers on Monday were doing interior dem...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
- Replies: 449
- Views: 278553
Re: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
The plan is to have 20 percent of the apartments set aside as affordable. From an earlier Business Journal article: The mixed-use apartment complex would be financed by a combination of private equity, debt and about $8 million in gap financing. Excess bond revenue could help cover costs associated ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8092
- Views: 7195870
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Jackson County Legislature will host public hearing about Royals ballpark The public have a chance next week to voice an opinion about the Kansas City Royals' intent to build a ballpark in the East Crossroads. Two members of the Jackson County Legislature, Chair Jeanie Lauer and Vice Chair Megan Ma...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:56 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
- Replies: 449
- Views: 278553
Re: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
KC will close deteriorating Barney Allis Plaza garage for demolition Kansas City will permanently close Barney Allis Plaza's crumbling parking garage in a little over a month so officials can prepare to demolish it. The 970-space underground garage is set to be shuttered April 15, about four years ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: North of the River
- Topic: North Kansas City
- Replies: 249
- Views: 99202
Re: North Kansas City
Kansas City can finally go down The Rabbit Hole at a new museum for children's literature Co-founders and spouses Pete Cowdin and Deb Pettid, pictured here in 2019, first began working on The Rabbit Hole in 2018. Their new museum will open to the public March 12. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2024...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Suburban sprawl is a Ponzi scheme
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9785
Re: Suburban sprawl is a Ponzi scheme
“Disillusioned” Author: American Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme | Amanpour and Company Once the quintessential image of the American dream, suburban neighborhoods now reveal a systemic racial disparity, with new Black and Brown residents struggling to deal with the declining conditions left by ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
- Replies: 668
- Views: 194919
Re: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
Whenever this thread pops up because of a new post, I assume the WallStreet Tower fell over.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: West Plaza Flats
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8835
Re: West Plaza Flats
If I were to guess, I imagine the issue with West Plaza and other Price projects is financing and perhaps cash-flow problems.