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- Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:30 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: proposed Valentine QuickTrip
- Replies: 109
- Views: 21093
Re: Penn Valley QT
I've heard chatter about a "road diet" for Southwest Trafficway... the trafficway was a hot topic at the midtown area plan meetings. the throughput could easily remain the same without some of the characteristics that contribute to high (unsafe) vehicle speeds -- elimination of the median...
- Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:58 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Status and future of the River Market area??
- Replies: 3007
- Views: 829258
Re: Status and future of the River Market area??
"The Bite" opens today. http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/27/4853393/city-markets-the-bite-opens-friday.html I don't understand the majority of the City Market's restaurant's hours. Why stay open until four on weekdays? That is a couple hours after the lunch rush and before any normal per...
- Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:28 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - New Downtown YMCA (former Lyric Theater)
- Replies: 361
- Views: 116987
Re: New Downtown YMCA
For some reason when I read this sentence it is in the voice of the "City Wok" man from South Park.DaveKCMO wrote:you want tower? we give you parking garage!
- Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:14 am
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Retail Projects
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1218
- Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:32 am
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Tortilla Ranch
- Replies: 1
- Views: 944
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:07 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Corbin Park (135th and Metcalf)
- Replies: 456
- Views: 15864
- Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:19 pm
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: P&L is a top 5 KC destination
- Replies: 49
- Views: 15628
Re: P&L is a top 5 KC destination
I couldn't disagree more with this. What you said is the exact opposite of reality. Where is the precedent for what you are claiming? In KC every single casino was built where there was nothing as they are on river's edge. They had to be built right up against a river because of the law. In KC the ...
- Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:36 am
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: P&L is a top 5 KC destination
- Replies: 49
- Views: 15628
Re: P&L is a top 5 KC destination
I'm not a fan of casinos, but this proves what I've been saying for almost 2 decades. Downtown needs a vegas-style casino hotel complex in the North loop, foot of Grand or SE downtown - perhaps on Grand south of Truman. There's plenty of huge parcels there Preferably MO would change it's law and al...
- Sun Jan 12, 2014 6:30 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project
- Replies: 1869
- Views: 625639
Re: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project
Oh I see, no one would want this filling one of the 150 surface lots between 7th and 20th St. No one would want this filling the entire block slab of concrete at 20th & Grand that's been empty for 30 years. I don't question that some people might like to visit a casino like that. I question how...
- Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:57 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project
- Replies: 1869
- Views: 625639
Re: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project
Is this because you are morally against casinos? I know several people who work with me in the heart of downtown who go to the casino frequently. I can tell you they would be all for it. Pretty sure it would be great for tourism too. I work at a hotel downtown, and we have lots of guests wanting to...
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:39 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project
- Replies: 1869
- Views: 625639
Re: OFFICIAL: Port Authority Riverfront Project
Casinos are chintzy development gimmicks and we don't need or want one in downtown KC. I rather like them being in impossible-to-develop-otherwise brownfields and I think that's the type of place they belong.
- Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:51 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Crown Center: urban disaster, shining star, or in-between
- Replies: 1256
- Views: 347087
Re: Crown Center: urban disaster, shining star, or in-betwee
Tikka House is sort of an indian restaurant "sort of" is right. I don't understand this place. Some hearsay: I have been told the owners of Tikka House are Middle Eastern. But they are somehow related to the family that runs Habashi House--which, incidentally, has reasonably excellent Mid...
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:34 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Corbin Park (135th and Metcalf)
- Replies: 456
- Views: 15864
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:52 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Broadway Jimmy John's
- Replies: 321
- Views: 57976
Re: Jimmy John's to open Drive-Thru restaurant at 9th & Broa
The building is completely gone this morning. It was there last night. They did not waste any time. I feel like I should correct myself. I got a closer look at the remains of the old building last night. They "merely" knocked the top half of all the walls off so that visually, it fell bel...
- Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:44 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Broadway Jimmy John's
- Replies: 321
- Views: 57976
Re: Jimmy John's to open Drive-Thru restaurant at 9th & Broa
The building is completely gone this morning. It was there last night. They did not waste any time.
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: New Streetscapes in KC (for better or worse)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2462
Re: New Streetscapes in KC (for better or worse)
The trees that were planted as part of the Troost stormwater remediation have about a 30% success rate. The native grasses are going gangbusters. No one like that flat boring brown prairie ku crap. The dirt seems to...? I like it. I think there is often beauty in some of the more subtle plantings' ...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:55 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - City Club Apartments (former Midwest Hotel)
- Replies: 703
- Views: 238007
Re: And here we go again... Midwest Hotel to be demolished
I've become cynical about any plans to build a new building that involve demolishing an old one. What's to prevent this sequence of events? It's happened many times before: - The bank demolishes the old building. - A little while later, the bank then pretends that their plans to build a new building...
- Wed Sep 12, 2012 7:42 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Interesting things up high
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1570
Re: Interesting things up high
The lit top of the Power & Light building? The Liberty Memorial "fire"? The shaft of light that beams up from the Frank Lloyd Wright church on the Plaza? The Mormon/RLDS/CofC church in Independence? Look closely at the light beam above the church for a few minutes some night in the su...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Google picks KCK/KCMO for ultra fast fiber network
- Replies: 1799
- Views: 383740
Re: Google picks KCK/KCMO for ultra fast fiber network
I didn't know something interesting was about to happen so I wasn't watching closely, but I do check the map several times a day. It's a compulsion. Anyway I *think* this neighborhood had 43 registrations left to meet its goal. I went away, checked the map an hour later, and suddenly it was green, h...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Google picks KCK/KCMO for ultra fast fiber network
- Replies: 1799
- Views: 383740
Re: Google picks KCK/KCMO for ultra fast fiber network
OK so, out of the blue, "Eastern 49-63" jumped all the way up to 130 registrations, thereby meeting its registration goal and becoming the first large neighborhood on the east side of Troost to qualify. That is, of course, BS. Any ideas where all these ghost registrations materialized from?