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The most insignificant new buildings in the crossroads today are built with *different* ornamation because that's what the owners want. They don't care that their building doesn't have a single corbel on it. There's been a new architectural style about every 20 years to the point that you can pick a...

I went in that Winsteads once. It was horribly slow for as dead as they were. They didn't keep up with what went in around them.

Maybe it's as simple as they didn't form a LLC yet? Like it could have been a single proprietorship.

Greenfield developments in older first ring suburbs?

NKC hasn't been greenfield for 100 years

The owner, 1501 KCMO LLC, was formed in July 2018. So they couldn't have bought anything in 2016 because it didn't exist yet.

It's registered through a StL business and the manager of the LLC is a paralegal at a Polsenelli address

This is clearly an outdoor list, but I found a hotel with children's activities listed within seconds.
https://www.grandhotel.com/activities/children/

And a place changing what they do last minute is exactly what you want to see. They're not wasting money on something unrealistic.

https://cityscenekc.com/embassy-suites-project-underway-in-former-federal-reserve-building/ Can't say I'm in love with anything about these developers or this project, but I guess it's good something is happening. What reservations do you have about it? The move from a basement data center to "fami...

What makes your pre-war point funny is the Unity Temple wasn't completed until 1950, construction started in 1945.

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.

Stumbled across this footage of that building getting imploded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMT-yfplAwg Do you know what year this might have been? demolish commercial building permit CPBD-200223433 was issued 1/7/2002 The address was 921 Walnut, once I found that the permit was easy to find.

Couldn’t tell from twitter, but the 3rd/Grand stop would relocate for this spur http://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Board-5_3rd-and-Grand_vertical_4x3.pdf The diagram clearly isn’t the final lane design since there’s no way it could safely be used for both NB traffic and SB out of the ...

Proposed Pedestrian/Bicycle Span to Downtown Riverfront Well-Received https://cityscenekc.com/proposed-pedestrian-bicycle-span-to-downtown-riverfront-well-received/ Great! Now make one more adjustment to that design by adding a connecting ramp to the HOA's bike/ped lane. Or, we can NOT do this and ...

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Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:49 pm

So do they lean over the street like that, or has somebody been drinking?

No one wanted to pay extra for the render and a fisheye lens is what would be able to see two directions at once

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Thu Jan 31, 2019 4:08 pm

Hyperloop freight will be competing with air freight, not trains.

It would compete with airplanes and trucking freight in terms of frequency, but it would act more like a train in terms of having designated stops and schedules

Ok, I'll go bigger With Amazon I've had deliveries scheduled and then show up two days early. I presume because the logistics made more sense to do it that way. Imagine you and your neighbor both ordered at 8am unknowingly and you both have prime service. Your items is in stock in KC, theirs is in S...

That map reminded me of something I just heard-

"Make American Mexican Again" The idea that they should get back the land we took.

Interesting article on if Boeing will invest in a new "MidLiner", the 797. Basically a wide body with the operational cost of a narrow body. Includes an interview with David Neeleman, "I had a briefing from Boeing and I thought it was great," Neeleman said during a recent visit to Chicago to tout P...

At best, changing counties has some value. Through 2007 the last one was in 1879 but there's no reason that just like annexation a community couldn't choose to change counties. I could see allowing the tail of KC in Cass to choose to join Jackson, for example. There's a cool map here showing county ...

people keep overlooking the fact that freight is what will make the hyperloop feasible. In our age of exploding internet shopping with people expecting same day/next day deliveries, connecting KC, STL and Chicago is a good spine for their network as they are the top 3 freight rail hubs in the US an...

For reference, there have been multiple designs before the current design which went through multiple facades https://www.kcur.org/post/kansas-city-petitioners-back-court-downtown-convention-hotel-battle#stream/0 https://www.kcur.org/post/judge-rules-against-petitioners-demanding-vote-downtown-hotel...