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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 262131
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
Some of the complaints about the building were graffiti and missing windows. The same thing was said about The View before it was renovated.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: 3rd & Grand to be redeveloped as TOD
- Replies: 308
- Views: 102624
Re: 3rd & Grand to be redeveloped as TOD
I like that Chinese market.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 262131
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
Breaking the wheel: Demolition starts on West Bottoms building ahead of $526.7M development SomeraRoad Inc. has started tearing down the former Weld Wheel Industries Inc. building as a precursor to the first projects in its $526.7 million West Bottoms plan. Workers on Monday were doing interior dem...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
- Replies: 478
- Views: 308026
Re: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
The plan is to have 20 percent of the apartments set aside as affordable. From an earlier Business Journal article: The mixed-use apartment complex would be financed by a combination of private equity, debt and about $8 million in gap financing. Excess bond revenue could help cover costs associated ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8413
- Views: 8135153
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Jackson County Legislature will host public hearing about Royals ballpark The public have a chance next week to voice an opinion about the Kansas City Royals' intent to build a ballpark in the East Crossroads. Two members of the Jackson County Legislature, Chair Jeanie Lauer and Vice Chair Megan Ma...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:56 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
- Replies: 478
- Views: 308026
Re: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
KC will close deteriorating Barney Allis Plaza garage for demolition Kansas City will permanently close Barney Allis Plaza's crumbling parking garage in a little over a month so officials can prepare to demolish it. The 970-space underground garage is set to be shuttered April 15, about four years ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: North of the River
- Topic: North Kansas City
- Replies: 249
- Views: 100108
Re: North Kansas City
Kansas City can finally go down The Rabbit Hole at a new museum for children's literature Co-founders and spouses Pete Cowdin and Deb Pettid, pictured here in 2019, first began working on The Rabbit Hole in 2018. Their new museum will open to the public March 12. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2024...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Suburban sprawl is a Ponzi scheme
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10039
Re: Suburban sprawl is a Ponzi scheme
“Disillusioned” Author: American Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme | Amanpour and Company Once the quintessential image of the American dream, suburban neighborhoods now reveal a systemic racial disparity, with new Black and Brown residents struggling to deal with the declining conditions left by ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
- Replies: 668
- Views: 204586
Re: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
Whenever this thread pops up because of a new post, I assume the WallStreet Tower fell over.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: West Plaza Flats
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8938
Re: West Plaza Flats
If I were to guess, I imagine the issue with West Plaza and other Price projects is financing and perhaps cash-flow problems.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: 2023 KCMO Election
- Replies: 537
- Views: 190853
Re: 2023 KCMO Election
I have a feeling he's not going anywhere. The City will likely match any offer he gets. The media leak is advantageous to Platt.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Trees in KC (ongoing)
- Replies: 120
- Views: 42432
Re: Trees in KC (ongoing)
We all need to keep an eye on the City's new tree plantings and raise hell if they all start dying from lack of watering.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: East Side Development
- Replies: 146
- Views: 86111
Re: East Side Development
If we were Dallas, Atlanta, or Houston, that neighborhood would get several higher-density residential towers.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza Residential Development
- Replies: 92
- Views: 33379
Re: Plaza Residential Development
I wish we had an eloquent speaker who would attend these meetings, and after the selfish NIMBYs do their testimony, this person would get up and point out how the City doesn't have enough money for things because it's not dense enough, and that the previous speakers are all selfish assholes who once...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Rail to KCI - 2023
- Replies: 123
- Views: 51502
Re: Rail to KCI - 2023
Culturally and politically, MSP is a highly progressive metro. People are more money conscious and and environmentally friendly than the average American. ... There were a lot of Scandinavian settlers in MSP and Minnesota. Throw in a bunch of Germans and Scots and you have a population of money-con...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:55 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 437
- Views: 175150
Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Many on this board, including myself, are saying "let's make an effort to make the market work better." How to make the market work better? Make it easier for small developers to enter the market and build a wider variety of housing types. The types of housing that the big institutional b...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:56 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Trees in KC (ongoing)
- Replies: 120
- Views: 42432
Re: Trees in KC (ongoing)
Push to Plant Trees in Kansas City Takes Root ... Tree preservation will kick into high gear in June when a $12 million windfall grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture reaches city coffers. The influx will enable the city to provide greater care to our existing arboreal canopy, which include...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8413
- Views: 8135153
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
A’s release renderings of new Las Vegas domed stadium that resembles famous Sydney Opera House https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-as-stadium-renderings-f536a1cb906eb65e8b9a9f3e968aed3e?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Facebook https://x.com/Athletics/status/176511507599480...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Economy
- Replies: 246
- Views: 50031
Re: Economy
Lake City is the largest small arms plant in the world. Senator Harry Truman was instrumental in establishing the Lake City plant. When the Sunflower Ammunition plant near Gardner was still operating, along with Lake City, the KC region was the world's largest producer of ammunition products. The pl...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Westwood - 47th Street
- Replies: 11
- Views: 864
Re: Westwood - 47th Street
Holy moly, a unicorn. An actual place to sit at a bus stop, and a trash can to boot.