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by Highlander
Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Because it cost 1/10th of what a new MLB stadium will cost. If they could build a new MlB stadium for under 150m I’m sure they’d not ask for a penny. and I'm guessing the Current's P&L is even less than 1/10th of the royals. The [NWSL] salary cap for the 2024 season will be $2,750,000 per team,...
by Highlander
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Parade Park
Replies: 14
Views: 1054

Re: Parade Park

What happens to the residents during construction?
by Highlander
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:19 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I am only semi-educated on this subject, but my understanding is that the most relevant economic studies are pretty conclusive that pro sports stadiums don't seem to result in any sustained general increase in economic activity region-wide. But it does shift the distribution of that economic activi...
by Highlander
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:39 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I just don't buy the idea that having pro teams does not give your city an economic boost. "people just go bowling instead" lol. There are studies that show there is not a benefit. I don't believe them - nor should anyone. Most of them are prepared by libertarian groups like the Show Me i...
by Highlander
Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

BTW on another page someone has said he has inside information that the Royals will move to Nashville if the vote fails. Where? Link? See the Star today. Sherman essentially came out and said something to suggest the franchise could be marketed - but it was veiled. He however did not say Nashville,...
by Highlander
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Redlining map of Kansas City (1939)
Replies: 4
Views: 264

Re: Redlining map of Kansas City (1939)

What is the Blue Hills golf club and what happened to it? The area known as the Citadel occupies some of the golf course former site. The site is fairly obvious on Google Maps by the more "modern" street patterns just north of 63rd and east of Blue Hills Drive. The club was established in...
by Highlander
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:59 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Capping the Loop
Replies: 2567
Views: 429740

Re: Capping the Loop

DaveKCMO wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:04 pm Reconnecting Communities is a discretionary grant program. Awardees are selected by the administration, not Congress.
So the administration is not influenced by the Congressional representatives of the respective states?
by Highlander
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:27 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: OFFICIAL - Loews Convention Hotel (formerly Hyatt)
Replies: 3315
Views: 705491

Re: OFFICIAL - Loews Convention Hotel (formerly Hyatt)

KCPowercat wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:15 pm travis and patrick opening a steakhouse on the ground level facing Baltimore and soon to be cap - 1587 Prime
Hope they do OK. Seems to be kind of a saturated market in KC. It will compete directly with the place in the P&L District.
by Highlander
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Katz on Main
Replies: 551
Views: 91915

Re: Katz on Main

moderne wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:16 am I saw at least half a dozen workers on site last week.
Drove by yesterday at 3 PM. I saw no activity. Perhaps people were working inside? Nothing going on in the old Katz drugstore part of the project.
by Highlander
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:32 am
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: TIME TO FREAK OUT AGAIN ABOUT CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT! THE BIG 12 IS DEAD! MAYBE!
Replies: 4608
Views: 478560

Re: TIME TO FREAK OUT AGAIN ABOUT CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT! THE BIG 12 IS DEAD! MAYBE!

Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:43 pm Can we rename the thread yet?
There's a Big 12 Tournament thread (not all that far back) and I should have put my post there. If there's a moderator around that wants to move my initial and ensuing posts there, that would be OK.
by Highlander
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:32 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2024/03/13/royals-stadium-streetcar-east-crossroads.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=ae&utm_content=KA&j=34674089&senddate=2024-03-13&empos=p4 KCMO really needs to make Main a transit only street from union station thr...
by Highlander
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
Replies: 150
Views: 29050

Re: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD

The argument for local control should have little to do with crime rate. Police should be accountable to the people that they police, not one man living halfway across the state. So, the affect this has on crime, good or bad, shouldn’t be a determinant? Correct. If we had zero crime I would still w...
by Highlander
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:56 am
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: TIME TO FREAK OUT AGAIN ABOUT CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT! THE BIG 12 IS DEAD! MAYBE!
Replies: 4608
Views: 478560

Re: TIME TO FREAK OUT AGAIN ABOUT CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT! THE BIG 12 IS DEAD! MAYBE!

fans from Arizona, Colorado and Utah will be in town for future tournaments No. No they won't. At least not in any significant numbers. There will be fans in town. It won't be in the tens of thousands but Arizona, for instance, is a perennial top 5-10 basketball school so there will be people trave...
by Highlander
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: TIME TO FREAK OUT AGAIN ABOUT CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT! THE BIG 12 IS DEAD! MAYBE!
Replies: 4608
Views: 478560

Re: TIME TO FREAK OUT AGAIN ABOUT CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT! THE BIG 12 IS DEAD! MAYBE!

Big 12 Men and Women's tournament to stay in KC through 2031. Good news. Hope the B12 in it present forms survives further realignment and the NCAA doesn't mess with the tournament to the point that conference tournaments become archaic. With the increased footprint, fans from Arizona, Colorado and ...
by Highlander
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
Replies: 150
Views: 29050

Re: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-filed-monday-claims-state-of-missouri-control-over-kcpd-is-unconstitutional?fbclid=IwAR0NvSYIssUQPUCL7ELEC4IQRgxGonRDqWDJL_BfN1zenemuoOy7RiNQte8 Lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state of Missouri's control over the KCPD filed. Hope it make...
by Highlander
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Katz on Main
Replies: 551
Views: 91915

Re: Katz on Main

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53582739315_96257a80e6_h.jpg Are they completing it, or is it being entombed in shrinkwrap like the wonderland? It looks like it's advanced quite a bit relative to the time I saw it last a few weeks ago - and I was writing it off as dead then so maybe there is ho...
by Highlander
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:23 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Crossroads will never be gaslamp no matter a baseball stadium. The problem with crossroads is it's too spread thin and no focus of activity. 18th and oak is the only real example of a focus of activity. Another reason why I think the East Crossroads location is ultimately the best. It replaces a co...
by Highlander
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Good god, the freaking quote of the century. This should be plastered everywhere because I feel like I'm the only one that sees this. And every time I say it, I'm just some out of town asshole. Who has ever said that? We all know this area isn't some hub of ped activity? Not just ped activity, but ...
by Highlander
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:02 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Why would they go out business? They will thrive. They are just the kind of businesses that would benefit from a nearby baseball stadium. The stadium has 80 or so open days per year. It won't drive wholesale changes to the area. their rent skyrockets. This is such a misconception. Landlords can’t r...
by Highlander
Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7171219

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Also anecdotal, it’s 3:30 on a Sunday and Casual Animal is full but not feeling busy. Every seat has a butt but no line at the bar. I should add I don’t think this is a comicon or basketball oriented crowd. My concern: it’s not the stadium footprint itself. I think losing Oak would be a mistake but...