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- Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
If I was a KCMO official and SKC came asking for incentives to move, I would tell them to buzz off. Maybe in 20 years, but not now. They've only been in Wyandotte County for 13 years. They made their bed and built a stadium in the middle of nowhere after giving KCMO the runaround. That's their mista...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
- Replies: 3919
- Views: 798212
Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Flying to Chicago in Feb, no thank you
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:37 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Personally, all the social outrage about funding seems a bit tired. Putting in $1B to get a matching $1B that will generate a significant return both financially and socially in the urban core is a no-brainer. The city isn’t in a position to pay a billion dollars for anything. The Marlins stadium i...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
The city isn’t in a position to pay a billion dollars for anything. You don't listen very well. The public financing piece will come from the already existing stadium tax. I think they've said no general fund money will be spent on the stadium. There might be some city money spent on infrastructure...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:16 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Personally, all the social outrage about funding seems a bit tired. Putting in $1B to get a matching $1B that will generate a significant return both financially and socially in the urban core is a no-brainer. The city isn’t in a position to pay a billion dollars for anything. The Marlins stadium i...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:03 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
The citizens receive a new stadium Citizens don’t need stadiums. Privately owned sports teams with government sanctioned monopolies do need stadiums. So they should pay for the large bulk of their own stadiums. If this is your view, then look at it like the $1B from the Royals will go to pay for th...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:56 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
:mrgreen: hi For example, the East Village has likely not been developed because of the inadequacy of the public infrastructure. I disagree. EV has not been developed because the city gave an entire chunk of downtown to a single entity to develop under the assumption that it had to be completely cle...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Citizens don’t need stadiums. Privately owned sports teams with government sanctioned monopolies do need stadiums. So they should pay for the large bulk of their own stadiums.
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
I agree in that when public authorities begin choosing winners and losers and entangling itself with private development it becomes an issue of fairness between new and existing development. The public should get away from TIF and sales tax funded development and limit its contributions to new and r...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:46 am
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9277
- Views: 11249482
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Now that the Chiefs are Super Bowl bound, no doubt we can expect the Chiefs in their offseason to come to the taxpayer trough with their stadium proposal. They have an easier pitch as they've been winning as of late. Not so for the Royals. But I'm skeptical of the Chiefs' economic impact to the loca...
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:16 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Southmoreland
- Replies: 87
- Views: 58745
Re: Southmoreland
This building was a dump. It was used by homeless who started fires and the basement flooded at one point. Good riddance. It would have been torn down eventually. Hopefully Doug Price doesn’t sit on it. Best case he sells it to another developer like Copaken Brooks and they build 10-12+ stories. Pri...
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:28 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Tracks 215 Project
- Replies: 276
- Views: 136985
Re: Tracks 215 Project
It looks like a turd with windows.
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:33 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Buck O'Neil Bridge
- Replies: 1467
- Views: 501756
Re: New Broadway Bridge
I assume you’re talking about northbound cars taking the 6th St exit to then turn left onto the Broadway bridge. If that is a bottleneck, just remove the exit and force them onto north loop. There are two other river crossings at their disposal.
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:07 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Buck O'Neil Bridge
- Replies: 1467
- Views: 501756
Re: New Broadway Bridge
Do the engineers at MoDOT live on Mars? The last thing downtown KC needs is more urban renewal highway flyovers.
I think the issue is they’re trying to make the new bridge both a highway and an urban arterial. It’s needs to be one or the other.
I think the issue is they’re trying to make the new bridge both a highway and an urban arterial. It’s needs to be one or the other.
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:04 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Buck O'Neil Bridge
- Replies: 1467
- Views: 501756
Re: New Broadway Bridge
You’re tearing down buildings under this plan anyway.
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:57 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Buck O'Neil Bridge
- Replies: 1467
- Views: 501756
Re: New Broadway Bridge
I’m really struggling to understand how this project serves residents of KCMO. They’re essentially building two bridges in place of one and adding a direct connection to the highway and taking up very valuable urban land in the process. All to make it easier for residents of one satellite suburb (No...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:54 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - 531 Grand
- Replies: 81
- Views: 33924
Re: OFFICIAL - 531 Grand
Yikes, hope they can mitigate damage.
I suspect these geometric boxes en vogue with developers present insulation challenges in extreme cold. All those angles and corners are potential leak points for cold air.
I suspect these geometric boxes en vogue with developers present insulation challenges in extreme cold. All those angles and corners are potential leak points for cold air.
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Earnings Tax
- Replies: 337
- Views: 62655
Re: Earnings Tax
In the long run, the city will be better off if voters vote down the earnings tax. It will sting the budget for sure. Rightly or wrongly, the e-tax serves as a psychological barrier for some individuals to live in KCMO and for businesses to move in from. Without it, I think you’d see a steady rise i...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Main Street Streetcar Extension
- Replies: 3444
- Views: 703560
Re: Phase 2 streetcar to UMKC
Do these hyper-local special sales taxing authorities (TDD, CID, etc.) apply to the purchase of an automobile? So say you live on the plaza, would you pay 8.85% (4.225% state + 4.625% local) or 11.xx% with all the special ones? Streetcar is great, but these sales tax rates are getting egregious. I t...