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I think my biggest issues are pushing for the return of historic tax credits from the state, transportation funding at the federal level, successful navigation of the KCI redo, and job creation. I saw that Steve Miller had Tim Kaine at one of his events recently. He also has state MODOT experience....

I don't remember agreeing to anything.

TheLastGentleman - Bravo to all your comments and rebuttals. All arguments against you are merely uninformed excuses. Great points. Ornament or other human scale details are critical to making buildings worth caring about. Every building that is built that lacks that detail will never make the city...

Marquee buildings have always been showpieces because they have that kind of budget. Common buildings are where budgets get squeezed the most and are those most prone to having to cut nonessentials, even machine-made or mass-produced ornamentation. The economics are pretty simple. My takeaway is tha...

Again, that ornament is so expensive because the industries it required were dismantled. Ideally, some bold developers and architects would push for new systems of ornament, start a trend, and cause the stuff to come back into demand, in the same way the Bauhaus designers had to convince their clie...

The problem is that most new buildings are uglier, less interesting/ornamented and degrade the public realm/neighborhood more than the old building You were doing so good and then it became subjective. I think my statement is very accurate. Are new buildings uglier than pre-war buildings? On averag...

Right. It's not even the nicest church on that part of 47th (Unity is). So nobody thinks I'm trolling, I'm advocating that we be more critical about the quality of a building before rushing to save it. By that standard, we could also lose the Tomfooleries building and the Lockton building (though, n...

I'm good with losing it.

Maybe a bodega type of grocery store. It's not a big space.

I haven't heard anything.

Looks like a cool, needed project... and I suspect it'll get mired in the affordable housing policy discussion somehow.

That building at 27th is nice looking in person. If the proposed development at 26th happens, the east side of Troost from 24th-27th will be completely filled in. Amazing.

I can't believe how quickly they renovated this building, and that it got by me without notice. The latter may be true, but no the former. The renovation took several years. I know it had started before mid 2015. Although the signage is new, I believe it has been done for a while now (at least part...

An early version of this development had a parking garage on the Center City corner of the intersection. It was revised because that's such a poor use of that parcel, and because Center City has lost the most residents compared to SP and HP and could use more people. If Pete wants Center City wants ...

That rendering is 3+ years old. Is that what was shown at PZE?

This addition to the project is basically to appease Hyde Park's desire for more parking. If they can satisfy that desire with the vacant lots, I suspect the building will stay. If not I suspect it won't.

You're next, church

Man, I miss the Pitch of the 80's and 90's.

But even the KMBC article seems unsure how to frame the story. Interesting.

HKC is already protesting this rendering

The stucco panels may have compromised the historic integrity. Not certain about that, but it’s a distinct possibility. Compromised buildings are restored all the time using historic tax credits. Yes, but the amount of what's been compromised matters. I've seen buildings denied NR listing for far l...