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by normalthings
Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:23 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8385
Views: 8074810

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Royals staying at kauffman = royals moving
by normalthings
Tue Jan 31, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8385
Views: 8074810

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

You guys are delusional. Super bowls and towers? I don’t see it that way, honestly I don’t disagree with the above points in the slightest. A Royals vote alone can’t pass, especially with their so far abysmal public engagement. Rolling with the Chiefs support though, a vote would have much better l...
by normalthings
Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:51 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8385
Views: 8074810

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I love that Royals is selling their downtown district as a way to attract retain office jobs in KC specifically downtown. I would love to look at the field from my desk. Good idea to try and use this as a way to attract jobs
by normalthings
Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:56 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8385
Views: 8074810

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

You shoot down the Royals and both end up leaving TSC/Jackson Co.

Royals are not guaranteed to stay in Kansas City forever.
by normalthings
Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:52 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1478524

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

Multiple developers have tried to pitch residential for this site. All shot down by the land owner.

Breaking up the Plaza only works if the city/neighborhood would approve redevelopment in the first place (they won't)
by normalthings
Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:16 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 692802

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

Opening date announcement at 4pm
by normalthings
Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:09 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: KU/KCK <-----> TSC East/West Transit
Replies: 338
Views: 360924

Re: KU/KCK <-----> TSC East/West Transit

Can you re-explain what the problem is? KCATA is notable in that they openly state they don't care who or what manages/owns/operate they just want KC to expand transit. KCATA is very small comparatively and seems run very well. And having transportation under one umbrella seems more efficient. But,...
by normalthings
Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:30 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: KU/KCK <-----> TSC East/West Transit
Replies: 338
Views: 360924

Re: KU/KCK <-----> TSC East/West Transit

You do realize that streetcar is not owned or operated by KCATA (the officially designated centralized authority)? It's owned and operated by KCMO (with the Kansas City Streetcar Authority* overseeing operations on their behalf, who in turn contracted operations and maintenance to a professional th...
by normalthings
Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:54 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8385
Views: 8074810

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Even if the stadium didn’t go at this exact spot, there would be a higher and better use. What I hate is when things are demoed with no plan in place.
by normalthings
Fri Jan 27, 2023 1:06 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: Bike Lanes
Replies: 787
Views: 247341

Re: Bike Lanes

Title: Sponsor(s): Councilmembers Melissa Robinson and Brandon Ellington Amending Ordinance No. 220318 by removing "E. Truman Road from Holmes Street to Belmont Avenue" from the list of bicycle facilities to be implemented as part of the one-year work plan; and directing the City Manager t...
by normalthings
Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:11 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 692802

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

I'm not calling it Watergate, but the accusations seem serious enough for an investigation. One of the biggest projects in KC history and our legal advice was unethical at best. At the very least just to set up some guard rails for the future to be better at this. At the time there was a lot of pro...
by normalthings
Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:43 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 692802

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

AECOM was #2. Burns and Mac had a bond issue that other proposers didn’t have. Edgemoor ended up having the same issue latwr
by normalthings
Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:42 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 692802

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

WoodDraw wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:59 pm I was reading it and the whole time was like it really sounds like the city got fucked here as well.

I guess we waived conflict, but there's enough smoke there to interest a public corruption investigator.
Can you summarize the public corruption component?
by normalthings
Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:26 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Freight House Podium Project - 20th and Walnut
Replies: 249
Views: 66688

Re: Freight House Podium Project - 20th and Walnut

It reads specifically that they may remove the hotel component?
by normalthings
Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:28 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 692802

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

I don’t know full details, I just know that tech ops is coming, not to mention I have seen them around a lot lately. Supposedly United is supposed to get 20+ main lines a day and there’s talks of becoming a line station for UA, although honestly I don’t know, But the things I am saying I have been ...
by normalthings
Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:09 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 692802

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

Forgot to mention that airline training has been ongoing. Not sure when Noah's United started but I know at least some there have been. https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5622AQFbzMgbu7mbpQ/feedshare-shrink_800/0/1674148137701?e=1677715200&v=beta&t=FwJ_CUrh37KCYr5NH-k2_rRpmMkD7k6DEvp7f0Mup-E
by normalthings
Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:54 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 692802

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

This looks really cool https://twitter.com/kemetcoleman/status/1618295254494629891?s=46&t=ydj6F29XVl1PMbHTJuvSCw I think it looks bad in person, looks like old Christmas decorations hanging from the ceiling of a kindergarten classroom. An example that not all public spaces need art? IMHO the st...
by normalthings
Wed Jan 25, 2023 4:30 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: Union Station Bus Terminal?
Replies: 30
Views: 8502

Re: Union Station Bus Terminal?

Maybe an opportunity to revisit the concept? https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2023/01/24/greyhound-bus-east-village-twenty-lake-firstgroup.html The longtime Greyhound terminal at 1101 Troost Ave., in the Paseo West area, recently was acquired by an affiliate of Twenty Lake Holdings LLC, ...
by normalthings
Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:38 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: KU/KCK <-----> TSC East/West Transit
Replies: 338
Views: 360924

Re: KU/KCK <-----> TSC East/West Transit

I already know the answers/challenges to my rant but.... I am really not interested in this if there is no rail segment and I hate that it takes so much time and money to study bus on routes we already studied multiple times. The process is bloated and no one here can fix it. Omaha is MAYBE the clo...