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I get it. Highways are big, bad, and evil, and should not run thru cities. I also get that the north loop as exists is a stain and eyesore on the landscape. What I don't get is how the city will magically turn into the next Seattle or MPLS B/C we take out a highway to create MORE vacant land in a ci...

So the answer to KC not best utilizing buildable land is to create MORE empty space for the city or landowners to let sit vacant waiting on a big payday that may never come? Cars, highways, and people can co-exist. While I get that designing a city with ONLY the auto in mind is rather shortsighted a...

Let's say that MoDOT came out today and announced plans for removing the North Loop: Where would the 60,000 cars currently using the North Loop go? re-established Sixth Street? RE-established Indep. Ave? If not there, then surely the South Loop can be re-designated as I-70, right? Wrong. The SW corn...

Who needs context, it's number 21 and 22! It's so painfully obvious, no explanation is needed. I think 21 will be an Apple store and 22 will be a title loan store. Or maybe a vape shop and a Burberry. I don't know. & Can you imagine a shopping center with an Apple Store next to a Title Loan Sto...

Metro North Mall owner MD Management Inc. plans to complete redevelopment of the long-distressed retail site as a one-story, two-anchor enclosed mall by fall 2015.... http://media.bizj.us/view/img/449261/may30metronorth*900.jpg http://m.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2013/05/30/metro-north-redevelo...

I'm thinking the rationale behind developing the Little Blue River Valley is that had it been already developed, already developed areas further out would not have been developed. Existing development further from the core puts a strain on the environment and regional infrastructure. People like the...

Thanks for the replies, guys! Longtime lurker here, figured I'd make my debut on the forum with a bang...

Getting better acquainted with my camera (Sony NEX-5N) while messing around a bit in the South Plaza. Enjoy and comment away... Starting at the library/Plaza Colonnade office building https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5561/14447327094_881d2edb33_b.jpg DSC00216 by 2000_Watts , on Flickr https://farm3.st...