KCRag Forum

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...

Flying to Chicago in Feb, no thank you

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...

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...

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...

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...

UMKC Roo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:33 pm

im2kull wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:32 pm
I'm not talking about on field performance. I'm talking about popularity.

As am I. Including have a certain superstar.

Smart on the Royals to make Mahomes an "owner". I wonder how much that cost the Royals

: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...

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 12:41 pm 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.

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...

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...

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...

It looks like a turd with windows.

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.

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.

You’re tearing down buildings under this plan anyway.

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...

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.

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...

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...