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- Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:23 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Tornado tower resurfaces
- Replies: 424
- Views: 48389
Re: Tornado tower resurfaces
Until I saw the link, I was thinking that was next to the new Soccer Stadium at the speedway. Interesting concept, though ugly. If you could add some grace (like the Eifel Tower) to that structure (and get rid of the red), that might be doable, particularly around the Speedway or the Soccer Stadium.
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:06 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Another Buffet opening in Olathe
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1782
Re: Another Buffet opening in Olathe
Guess I picked the wrong week to go on a diet.
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:54 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: OFFICIAL: The Legends at Village West
- Replies: 1950
- Views: 305416
Re: OFFICIAL: The Legends at Village West
i'm sure there's a plan somewhere to tear it down and start over. What is being discussed in the Olathe comprehensive plan is keeping the shells of the anchor stores and demolishing the in-between areas of the mall to create an open pedestrian shopping area like the Legends. I would rather they ke...
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:19 am
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: What's being built in Olathe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4083
Re: What's being built in Olathe
That's it exactly - downtown is a ghost town when the sun goes down (sorry couldn't resist that). They really want to come up with a concept that keeps the town center alive at night, and they have been struggling since before I moved to Olathe (14 years now) to make the downtown a destination. The...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:00 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: What's being built in Olathe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4083
Re: What's being built in Olathe
Valcour, any idea what kind of "River Market" building they hope to construct? Well they pretty much just have a conceptual plan right now, so nothing is guaranteed. The concept is a large, open building with permanent stall-type business sites around the outer wall - like the permanent ...
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:19 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: What's being built in Olathe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4083
Re: What's being built in Olathe
So Olathe actually has a downtown. It's where they keep the jail, and government buildings. Apparently, at some point, the city plans to spruce it up a bit. http://www.olatheks.org/Development/Downtown/Envision Yeah, they have been working on that for years. That is why the city bought up Alexan...
- Thu May 14, 2009 1:12 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Kansas drops the ball...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3220
Re: Kansas drops the ball...
Gotta play the game. Dallas, Atlanta, Denver etc have been doing it for years and it's paid off. Kansas and Missouri both need to take economic development more seriously, especially in a city like KC that gets few chances to compete for major office or industrial projects that choose places like ...
- Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:58 pm
- Forum: Missouri Suburbs
- Topic: MU bioscience park in Blue Springs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6787
Re: MU bioscience park in Blue Springs
Those of you who wanted KC to have its own bioscience project get their wish.
http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1041739.html
http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1041739.html
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:46 am
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Does Olathe Have a Soul?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7622
Re: Does Olathe Have a Soul?
If I understand what is meant by the "soul" of a city then the soul of Olathe is the backyard. The definition of soul running through this thread seems to be the architectural element or environment that characterizes the city. For Olathe and most other suburbs, that architectural elemen...
- Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:10 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Repurposing "Ghost Boxes"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1229
Repurposing "Ghost Boxes"
Interesting article on the Popular Mechanics site of taking vacant retail sites and repurposing them. One example they cite is taking an abandoned mall and making it into a city center.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/t ... 02220.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/t ... 02220.html
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:43 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Olathe Great Center
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5934
Re: Olathe Great Center
There was a good article in the KC Business Journal on this sale - sorry I didn't think to get a link and the article has disappeared. The mall cost over $120 million to build and the investment group bought it for around $20 million. That's a nice markdown, and the investment group believes they ...
- Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:31 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Olathe Great Center
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5934
Re: Olathe Great Center
Actually there is a church in the mall. It is just not a megachurch - it's a start up church. Which means the rent can't be very high for that mall apace. If they clean up the decor; sign at least one major vendor; and add some events that make sense, there is no reason why that mall couldn't turn ...
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:57 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: From Johnson's County Gazette
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3673
Re: From Johnson's County Gazette
This has happened - Church's is open at the old Backyard Burger site (just east of I-35 on Santa Fe/135th Street. Picked up some chicken there the other night, and it was pretty good.mgsports wrote: Backyard Burgers has closed in Olathe at I-35 and rumored to be replaced with Church's Chicken
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:57 pm
- Forum: Missouri Suburbs
- Topic: MU bioscience park in Blue Springs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6787
Re: MU bioscience park in Blue Springs
Why didn’t the Olathe project go to KCK, that city is about half open land. I don’t care about the Olathe project. I never said a thing about it. It was nice to see something going into a JoCo business park that didn’t come from KCMO. Hell, most of the companies that now sit on Renner, College a...
- Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:25 am
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: From the Spree Newsletter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2432
Re: From the Spree Newsletter
Church's! Yea! Good to see we finally got one back on the Kansas side. Crunchy, greasy, salty artery-clogging yumminess. I know it isn't the greatest chicken in the world, but for some odd reason its been my favorite ever since I was a little kid getting it with my dad at the walk-up window on 2...
- Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Big Business's coming to Olathe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3072
Re: Big Business's coming to Olathe
John Deere is now moving their marketing office from Lenexa to Corporate Ridge.
http://www.kansascity.com/382/story/781957.html
http://www.kansascity.com/382/story/781957.html
- Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:33 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Big Business's coming to Olathe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3072
Re: Big Business's coming to Olathe
Corporate Ridge is a business park at the intersection of Ridgeview Road and K-10 in the northern part of Olathe.voltopt wrote: What's Corporate Ridge?
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:53 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Big Business's coming to Olathe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3072
Re: Big Business's coming to Olathe
It's a spec office building development just south of the Corporate Ridge business park (Farmers Insurance, Terracon, Garmin and Embassy Suites are coming). It is for four buildings and over 420,000 sq ft. It's on spec, so no tenants have been identified yet. It should fit in well with the Corpor...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:44 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Schlitterbahn Waterpark and Resort
- Replies: 1156
- Views: 209642
Re: Schlitterbahn Waterpark and Resort
You're right - the current satellite picture is from June, 2005.KansasCityCraka wrote: They wont update that very quickly at all. Probably wont be updated for another few years.
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:26 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Restaruants reopening
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4762
Re: Restaruants reopening
Chapala is good too - used to go there all the time. I am just addicted to the Pollo Poblano at Mi Ranchito, so I tend to go there when I feel like Mexican food.StL_Dan wrote: Great call!
Gotta love the one that started the mom n pop Mexican explosion in Olathe too - Chapala!