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by chrizow
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:40 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: New Riverfront Women's Soccer Stadium
Replies: 219
Views: 105461

Re: New Riverfront Women's Soccer Stadium

how are most people accessing the stadium since there apparently isn't much parking? park in river market and walk down, uber, or what?
by chrizow
Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Brookside
Replies: 312
Views: 169648

Re: Brookside

2 colonnades would be great...or retail on the bottom with housing above. maybe i'm cynical but i think the neighbors would pretty strongly resist zoning changes, complaining of added density ("traffic") in that location. i suspect the immediate neighbors are already annoyed with "Ear...
by chrizow
Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Brookside
Replies: 312
Views: 169648

Re: Brookside

https://59thandholmes.com/ The lots across from Earl's are for sale, $200K each. i like all the renderings and plans--other than the suggestion to "Pave over as a parking lot, Earls Premier and the shopping center across Holmes street have exceeded the neighborhood parking demands." :shock:
by chrizow
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:24 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8091
Views: 7160642

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

my 2 cents: I think the Crossroads location will yield a more successful outcome for the stadium and downtown. We have all thought about EV as the site for years now but ultimately I am confident it would simply be another underutilized island of low activity in KC. There is no reason, post-COVID, t...
by chrizow
Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:16 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8091
Views: 7160642

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

the Xroads site--if done well, which is a big "if"--seems ideal to me. i have little to no faith that the $1B entertainment/residential development in the EV would ever happen at all, or be done well if it was completed. net result is either (1) a new stadium without a surrounding district...
by chrizow
Thu Nov 02, 2023 12:14 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Misc Crossroads News
Replies: 3486
Views: 1618494

Re: Misc Crossroads News

i note that the Dialectic CEO's email states that he also lives in the Xroads and that he and his wife feel unsafe. while folks on this forum may think he is being dramatic, it doesn't sound like this guy is "afraid" of downtown since he lives downtown and maintains a business downtown.
by chrizow
Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:41 pm
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: Sporting Kansas City
Replies: 1022
Views: 283383

Re: Sporting Kansas City

quite the "burn" coming from "Missouri," possibly one of the few states that is a bigger dumpster fire than Kansas.
by chrizow
Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:45 pm
Forum: Kansas Suburbs
Topic: Prairie Village
Replies: 48
Views: 19646

Re: Prairie Village

doesnt seem to be as controversial, but it appears to be happening in old leawood as well....lots of teardowns or folks turning relatively modest ranches into $1-3M homes. obv. larger lots so the new homes do not look as out of place. i think it bodes well that folks with the income to live anywhere...
by chrizow
Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Kansas City Scene
Topic: Restaurants you ate out at as a kid
Replies: 150
Views: 69600

Re: Restaurants you ate out at as a kid

this would not qualify as a "classic KC restaurant" or anything, but the restaurant from my childhood that i think about the most is Dos Hombres, which was a tex-mex place in an oddly-shaped building at 89th and blue ridge. the building is still there but i think it is empty. i remember th...
by chrizow
Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Westport
Replies: 2807
Views: 720227

Re: Westport

i got my first pair of doc martens at loma vista hardware when it was upstairs in that building on westport road near where 303 is now (if memory serves). this would have been about 1994? prior to that, they sold clothes and skateboards in the loma vista hardware store in the loma vista shopping cen...
by chrizow
Wed Jun 14, 2023 12:53 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Brookside
Replies: 312
Views: 169648

Re: Brookside

looks like the space directly next to Earl's is vacant...any word re: possible tenants? would love to maybe see the earl's folks open something in there (not an expansion of earl's itself though, the intimacy of the space is a big part of the appeal in my opinion)...
by chrizow
Thu May 18, 2023 9:47 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3880
Views: 661870

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

at the airport now, arrived around 9am. parked in economy C lot and the shuttle came within 2 minutes. saw multiple busses roving the A and C lots. TSA pre-check security took at most 4 min. regular security had maybe 40 people in line and they had several checkpoints open so it was moving quickly. ...
by chrizow
Wed May 10, 2023 3:18 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3880
Views: 661870

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

related question--how is the shuttle service to KCI economy parking? thinking of using it next week for a flight. towards the last days at the old terminal the shuttle service was sporadic to the point of absurdity. has that changed?
by chrizow
Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:03 pm
Forum: Kansas City Scene
Topic: 1985 Best and Worst of KC
Replies: 22
Views: 12366

Re: 1985 Best and Worst of KC

the "coffee shop" concept sounds interesting. would that be similar to billie's grocery and caffetteria now? all day "cafe/restaurant" that also has booze? photos of putsch's online make it look like both a formal/fancy restaurant and basically a cafeteria. what about fern bars? ...
by chrizow
Mon Apr 24, 2023 3:36 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Brookside
Replies: 312
Views: 169648

Re: Brookside

checked out Bacaro Primo for lunch today. very solid addition to the neighborhood. for lunch they have some small plates/apps, a couple salads, pizzas, and sandwiches. for dinner it looks like they add a handful of entrees. wine and cocktail list looks good. we didnt try the charcuterie but plan to ...
by chrizow
Wed Mar 22, 2023 2:42 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1438124

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

i dont particularly understand why we care whether the Plaza has stores like LV, Gucci, Prada, or whatever--and i completely agree KC could never support stores like that, unless it's maybe an LV store that sells basically nothing but purses. those stores thrive in places with, yes, more wealth, but...
by chrizow
Fri Mar 10, 2023 2:40 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Misc Crossroads News
Replies: 3486
Views: 1618494

Re: Misc Crossroads News

what bldg? seems like an odd location but maybe they can activate that rather sleepy area.
by chrizow
Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:30 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3880
Views: 661870

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

we flew through KCI over the weekend. miserable experience in the AA gates as usual--massive crowds, nothing open other than an overtaxed starbucks and bar. as always, overheard lots of complaints and jokes about how shitty the airport is. however, we chatted with a fellow who attended the simulatio...
by chrizow
Mon Feb 06, 2023 9:53 am
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: KC in TV and Movies
Replies: 1900
Views: 568548

Re: KC in TV and Movies

trying to figure out which scenes were actually filmed in KC--or did they just take some "B roll" footage for background CGI? in the "behind the scenes" interviews after the episode, the producers said they actually filmed the "kansas city" scenes in calgary. i guess th...
by chrizow
Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8091
Views: 7160642

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

good to know. would love to see that happen in EV!