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What is JoCo doing right? Are they spending more? Different plowing vendors? Someone at City Hall should call Olathe, because somehow KCMO is doing this wrong. Drive between Waldo and Prairie Village today -- the contrast is shocking -- streets completely clear on the Kansas side, to the pavement an...

Over/ under please on when the streets in the city will be cleared. Today after maybe six inches of fresh snow, we have some seriously under-plowed avenues in the middle of downtown

Luxury housing turns into middle class housing with the passage of time. Miami is Exhibit A in this regard. High rises go up all the time, and the hot new high rises with whatever luxury is de rigueur at that moment, attract the new money from South America. Then five years pass, and these same peop...

Slovenia houses one of my favorite hotels anywhere: the Vila Bled, on Lake Bled -- unbelievably attractive area. The people are good-looking, too.

Regardless of feelings about Scientology, I am relieved that this building was saved in more or less its original form. My grandfather operated his brokerage on the mezzanine level of this building in the 1920s (the bank leased out multiple floors to tenants). I have some of the stationery, but sadl...

Honestly, I'd like to see the thing replaced. Pretty poor architecture IMO Indeed, the Crowne Plaza (not its original name) embodies poor architecture because the city hired a low-bid architect back in the urban renewal days. Same guy who did all the Missouri state trooper barracks; he tossed in th...

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2018/12/11/country-club-plaza-church-mixed-use-conversion.html For the love of god, the press and residents are all against this for all the wrong reasons. It's time to let the "bowl" concept go and allow the Plaza area to develop. A 12 story building tot...

Developing vacant land and vacant buildings into housing and commercial space which can offer services is a neighborhood benefit. Yeah, it’s an interesting situation because it’s nice to have the new buildings but developers aren’t doing any of this for altruistic reasons (not do I expect them to b...

The roads in Jo Co are clear to pavement today. As soon as I crossed State Line Road, I encountered basically unplowed roads -- as in, never plowed, just compacted from traffic into hard ice. With the exception of Ward Parkway and Southwest Trafficway, the great majority of city thoroughfares are st...

Significant fire last weekend at City Center Place, ironically just behind the exterior wall where the Sungevity signage was recently removed. Hypothesis is that debris in the boiler flue ignited, causing fire damage to the office part of the USPS post office. Downtown, full-service postal services ...

Related Fairway topic. Not about the bridge for Mission Road, but related to the north-south distributor road to its east, Belinder Road has undergone major changes this week. The triangle merge for Belinder and State Park Roads has been closed off. Belinder now turns sharply at its southern end int...

Tension envelope is the family business of one of Kansas City's six living mayors. (Hint: it's not Mayor Wheeler). The family name was anglicized along the way, similar to the surname of another KC scion from the same neighborhood.

...And may not be doable with 3 lanes each way unless using lights. Doesn't seem like there can be a good solution that everyone would like. What about hiring the Boring Company to bury SW Tfway from Plaza to downtown? This is not such a farfetched idea (at least the tunnel idea -- not sure about E...

Grinders makes the London newspapers...

https://dailym.ai/2pjOToy

Says here that KC Star has more subscriptions than StL Post Dispatch https://247wallst.com/media/2017/01/24/americas-100-largest-newspapers/ The data in the linked article (150k subscribers) is from 2015. If the upthread article with 2017-2018 data is correct at 80k Sunday, 63k weekdays, then the S...

Between June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018, home delivery of the Sunday Star fell by nearly 13 percent, from 92,247 copies to 80,444 copies. During the same period, home delivery of the Monday-Friday Star dropped by slightly more than 16 percent, from 74,660 to 62,470. In addition, the much-touted — ...

Could Drivers Ed just be getting worse? I had a gf from Texas and she was a terrible driver, she would always drive in the Left Lane while people passed her in the Right Lane, I was embarrassed while in the car. I just couldn't take it anymore so I had to basically teach her the rules of the road. ...

Brodees wrote: but I swear there's a south-to-north downward incline that I don't recall noticing before the reno.

You are correct. The flooring for this retail space (CVS) was built to accommodate the slight incline on Main in order to have doors on both streets (as originally designed).

The last time I saw a Chastainian acolyte collecting signatures was 2014 in the foyer of Price Chopper/ Milgram's in Brookside (at B'kside Plaza and Meyer). My elderly father flew into full curmudgeon mode and interrogated him about Chastain's Virginia residence.

I believe that the building closed as a Presbyterian church in the 1970s. Linwood Presbyterian was a thriving church in the 1950s, but the neighborhood was well into its decline by 1960. There was a massive bell in the main tower. Not sure if it is still there or not. The place does have a legacy; s...