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moderne wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:56 am I have never seen evidence of security.

I walked up to the fence a year ago to look at an interesting bird and a security guy came out of the shadows and challenged me.

Cratedigger wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:02 am Graffiti all over the main street side of this corner

I saw both of the Price Brothers outside with polaroid cameras taking pictures of the graffiti to prove that it is blighted, and a threat to the safety of pedestrians, and therefore must be torn down.

Oh no! With the renovation of the El Torreon and all the other activity over there, this seems like a prime place for a new apartment building with more restaurant patios etc. What a waste of real estate. Honestly with the El Torreon news, it's maybe a silver lining that there will be fewer residen...

Planning commission has a date on June 13th to divide up the vacant lot at the corner of 29th and Holmes into five single-family lots.

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2023/05/17/vantrust-mcgilley-funeral-home-streetcar-midtown.html "Pending approval from the city, VanTrust is proceeding with the demolition of the McGilley Funeral Home," Grant Harrison, senior director of development, said in an email statemen...

Seems like a no-brainer. It would be nice to replicate that same terra cotta across the first couple of floors and blend it in, but saving it as-is would surely be easy to incorporate into the plan.

moderne wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 11:22 am This is not part of Troost Village. TV is on the east side only of Troost.

Ah? I thought both sides were being worked on by the same developer.

A little more activity here. Recently some of the rear structures were demolished on the southwest corner of 31st and Troost. https://i.postimg.cc/N2MfgjWZ/20230121-141727-resized.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/wy9jGVFq/20230121-141805-resized.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/pmg9qzgr/20230121-141808-resized.jpg ...

normalthings wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:25 am

wahoowa wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:52 pm i think that the building to the north of the hampton inn got knocked down?

yes emergency demo

Seems like 1519 Main St caught fire on Sunday afternoon, and was torn down on Monday morning.

FangKC wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:07 pm I'm not buying a word of it.

I mean, yeah, absolutely not.

Some people might ask what it says about the guy that he and his lawyer would lie directly to the faces of the planning committee.

Construction work is well underway on the Welcome House project. Their website implies they aren't planning to demolish the historic buildings that their facilities are in (except for the single-storey newer building on the corner, which has already been demolished). https://i.postimg.cc/67x5JV3c/01...

Why Sunflower? Why not let me take a swing at it? I have a fun idea for this parcel that makes sense and would be beautiful (and the numbers work!). Things might look bleak here, but my team has dealt with far worse situations than this. Man, that sounds incredible. During the meeting with the plan...

Right. You need to use portland lime mortar for masonry repair like that. I couldn't see any packaging to tell what they were in fact using, but the finished job looks lovely. The aborted first attempt last winter looked like the original contractor was using quikrete.

Most of the damage from the car slaloming into the corner of the building has been repaired. Shortly after the collision, they built up the corner post to about four feet, very badly. Used the wrong mortar, and it was all smeared and looked like a poor DIY job. They stopped work, removed the mortar,...

Ah? Honestly it's possible Square bought it. The ad on Loopnet says it's a Hershewe property, but maybe that's out of date.

620 Linwood is owned by a slumlord with a largeish portfolio in the city. His properties are listed for sale well over what they're worth, he's content to let them sit empty; or he leases them as-is. There's no way he'd renovate that building on his own dime. If it moves, it's because someone else h...

If that footprint is to be trusted, they also want to demo the next three buildings north of the corner cluster and displace Union Hill Animal Hospital, Ambrosi Bros. Cutlery, and Museo. It looks like Price already owns the animal hospital's building, but Ambrosi and Museo own their own buildings. ...

Fencing has gone up around all of the buildings, as of this week.

Does anyone know the short version of what all this means? If they designate these buildings as historic landmark structures, does that not mean that Price can just say, "Okay, they are historic landmarks. Unfortunately, they are too blighted to be saved because we are idiots who are bad, and w...

... The St. Regis has been emptied(most tenants have been moved to the Ambassador) and exterior lifts and scaffolding is being erected to facilitate restoration. Work is still going on the Regis. They've been removing the bricks from the exterior wall on the west side of the building, exposing the ...