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by chingon
Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:36 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

dnweava wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:43 am Wrigleyville is awesome.
Gross.
by chingon
Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:34 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project
Replies: 1855
Views: 526338

Re: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project

Anyone interested in the management of the big middle American rivers and what is actually going on should read Holding Back the River by Tyler Kelley.
by chingon
Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:21 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

And some people would rather live in Joplin than KC. What is your point? My point is that I'm an enormous baseball fan, and a huge Royals fan, but beyond the economic impact (which is increasingly questionable given the enormous outlay of public money), I'm not so foolish as to fail to understand t...
by chingon
Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:05 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

TheUrbanRoo wrote: Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:33 pm
Also I’ve been wondering for months now why they don’t just vote with KCMO only.
Because the Northland voters would tank it unless it gets built up north.
by chingon
Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:57 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

WoodDraw wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:05 pm
It will pay off long term.
This is, ahem...NOT the Royals's organizational model.
by chingon
Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:33 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I hope they can get a stadium done in KC, but right now, I think there is about a 50% chance the Royals are not in KC in 2035. In another ten years, places like Nashville and Charlotte will be too much larger and will build a downtown stadium for the Royals in a heartbeat. And KC will be Buffalo wh...
by chingon
Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:39 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437610

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

moderne wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:54 am Flatland has yet another new Plaza article saying the new owner is a Jane Jacobs fan.
Barf. I remember when this board was littered with Jane Jacobs dick-riding and I do not miss it.
by chingon
Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:39 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Downtown KCK would be fine with me. Probably rank it higher than NKC, lower than the site where it belongs (18th/Vine) or the "east village" site, but it wouldn't bother me at all. Legends or south JoCo would be a historic and very Kansas City miss.
by chingon
Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:01 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

TheSmokinPun wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:37 pm Surplus, kind of an "you scratched their back, we'll scratch yours now" for KC helping pay for the STL dome, & Parson wanting a big project to show off when he goes into the private field after this.
You don't know Mike Parson very well.
by chingon
Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: Bike Lanes
Replies: 787
Views: 240060

Re: Bike Lanes

Allowing sidewalks to deteriorate into un-usability, campaigning for 30 years to keep bikes off of sidewalks, then making separated bike lanes (which is basically what a sidewalk is), and then having to "rebrand" those bike lanes as glorified sidewalks is why people doubt the effectiveness...
by chingon
Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:10 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Other than getting a new stadium, NKC seems like the worst of both worlds, not downtown, we lose a stadium I love, and the same ancillary development could be done at TSC. The upside would be I wouldn't have to chip in. I do not believe there will ever, under any circumstances, in any possible futu...
by chingon
Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:39 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Capping the Loop
Replies: 2567
Views: 429142

Re: Capping the Loop

moderne wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:47 am In this climate fountains are operable only 7 months out of the year.
Patience, grasshopper. We have a plan to fix that.
by chingon
Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:37 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Have people here thought about what they would do if they do announce NKC as the site? I know I'm not sure what I would do, other than just go along with it since there is not much else to do. I would be excited with either option. As long as the ballpark moves into the city, I'm pretty neutral. Th...
by chingon
Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:20 pm
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: Sporting Kansas City
Replies: 1022
Views: 283242

Re: Sporting Kansas City

warwickland wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2023 7:19 am :shock:

Image
mlssoccer.com
Shit club. No history.
by chingon
Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:49 am
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: Sporting Kansas City
Replies: 1022
Views: 283242

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Like said, going to a Royals game is odd because there like like nobody there in their 20s and 30s like I see in other stadiums. I love this newest narrative arc of your KC-Eeyore dystopian fantasy, in which baseball fans EveRywHere bUt Kc!!!!! are 20 and 30 somethings. Your capacity for sustained ...
by chingon
Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:35 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8090
Views: 7148708

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Highlander wrote: Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:02 pm Best to plan generational stadiums for the future and not the present.
LOL. They'll be disappearing dissidents underneath the turf at stadia within the decade.
by chingon
Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:31 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: 4627 Madison
Replies: 20
Views: 8495

Re: 4627 Madison

If you guys vote for me for emperor of Kansas City-State, I vow to ban anyone from ever using the phrase "plaza bowl" again.
by chingon
Thu Sep 21, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437610

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

Now you agree with the Star's Editorial Board and should be lambasted for it.
by chingon
Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:51 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3880
Views: 661450

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

I did recently get solar and it made sense with the rebates and low-cost Solarize KC program. Battery storage makes no sense but maybe next house I will do it. I am paying cash but it was going to be like $60 mo/financed 0% interest. Hopefully offsets about 50-60% of my power bill and it will add v...
by chingon
Mon Sep 18, 2023 2:59 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Lighting of the Bridges
Replies: 101
Views: 18596

Re: Lighting of the Bridges

Good.