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It's a big step up from what has been built so far.

General Motors is moving its headquarters from Renaissance Center to the new Hudson's site developed by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock. ... GM CEO Mary Barra told a crowd of local dignitaries and reporters Monday afternoon that GM will relocate its global headquarters in 2025 from the Renaissance Center on D...

Art Garden KC begins summer festival at Berkley Riverfront

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The event will be held every Sunday from April 21 to Oct. 27 at Berkley Riverfront Park East from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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https://fox4kc.com/news/art-garden-kc-b ... iverfront/

What do you do about all the hotels that have built their convention business around the current location being walkable--Loew's and Marriott for example? One of the major justifications for the Power & Light District was luring more convention business to the existing location. You are advocati...

I'm surprised they haven't considered converting the American Royal complex for something like this. It's near Hy-Vee Arena and there might be crossover use there.

Here is a link. https://kchistory.org/blog/belvidere-hollow-kcq-unearths-kansas-city%E2%80%99s-lost-black-neighborhood Location: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1091292,-94.5672651,828m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu It is depicted here on the lower left. You can zoom in on the image. https://kchistory.org...

My understanding is that the townhomes must have an HOA--for themselves--for common areas and common physical structures, like adjoining roofs. The rowhomes should not fall under laws governing condos and pre-sale. It would seem to me the way to go would be townhomes/row house, that share common wa...

Would you mind expanding on this concept A bit? I'd love to hear your vision of what this could look like. Different poster, but this is what I envision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungalow_court Those are great in the right situation. I think they can be tough to pencil out for small infill job...

Rowhouses and townhouses are charming, but bear in mind when developing that many older people who are looking to downsize, need places with no stairs. Makes the hunt for affordable housing as an elder even more difficult. There is also an old-timey solution like this that could be placed randomly ...

It's being done on the West Side. Much of the rebuilding of the neighborhood has been done in "one-off" situations where a developer has built one house and sold it, or someone commissioned a house to be built. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0894013,-94.5934237,3a,48.2y,32.42h,102.98t/dat...

^ Many people are not counted an unemployed because they have literally given up looking for work. Please explain how 80,000 Metro people are surviving if they have given up looking for work, and Missouri and Kansas have work requirements to get SNAP and TANF? Perhaps those workers who left the wor...

As 18th & Vine projects increase, KC approves $20M to help build garage ... Now, officials have approved a measure to help construct what they say would be the Third District's first city-funded multilevel garage, and possible transit-oriented development, too, as development continues to incre...

There are two blocks north of the T-Mobile Center if some team ownership wants to build an arena for sports.

Sadly, that tale is often the case and why it takes so long to redevelop even vacant parcels. If I were a large developer, I'd create a master plan for the CP acreage with streets, sidewalks, alleys, landscaping, etc. and divide it into smaller parcels. I'd have other small developers build just a f...

Belvidere, does anyone ask the developers about building townhouses in a neighborhood association with mandatory common fees versus building old-style zero setback townhouses wall-to-wall that are individually-owned, not in a neighborhood association, and have no commons fees? I ask because this oft...

I should have been more specific in that the new design makes subtle reference to streamline moderne art deco in its use of vertical bands. The vertical bands didn't exist in previous designs. Please don't make me post a bunch of examples of buildings from the art deco era in Miami that don't have p...

what was the scope of the study? Crossing the RR is one problem but even using industrial is pretty treacherous and I wouldn't recommend anybody walk it currently. It's a little hard to define. We went in with the idea that we might get something like a Town of Kansas bridge. We had hoped that Spir...

Is that the building for the beer garden?

I'm surprised they didn't go for a 3-story above the front grade instead of 2-story. It could have been a 3-story with basement. That could have made it possible to create a multi-generational house. I think that would sell quickly in a neighborhood with people of Italian and Vietnamese descent.

Yeah we need more rowhouse in KC but I wouldn't touch those due to the proximity to the highway. Glad they got built though! The six acres in Columbus Park around 4th and Gillis should be all rowhouses. We are looking at 3 plots of land near CP Lofts are are likely to be townhomes and live/work spa...