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About what I’d expect, Give people cool renderings and sell the dream it’ll come up

GRID wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:58 pm Still don't see how they do it when 80-90% of the fans don't want it. It will be interesting to see what they have come up with.

It’s definitely more like 60% want it from what I’ve seen

I’m torn i feel it’s a toss up at this moment

It's so frustrating to see some the comments made by some fans about not wanting a downtown stadium. "The K is one of the best in the league" Yes, but it's 50 years old and will need another few hundred million dumped into and you're still at a terrible location. "There's so many mor...

AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:15 pm Why isn't our local corporate community as dedicated to downtown here?

Because they are used to the suburbs we need to put pressure on to change their minds

AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:04 am Why did Westport high school shut down?

It was closed in 2010 as a way to right size the district. They had to many schools for the number of students.

Westport junior high has already been redeveloped into offices, the high school is under a plan to be turned into apartments

KCDowntown wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 4:44 pm The agenda for the September 16th PIEA meeting has the city transferring the parking lot to the west of the City Market (North Side of 5th & Main) over to Port KC.

KCDowntown

Does that mean that flaherty development will kick off soon?

Probably fine yeah

Vested is decent but on 8th. KC has a really strong culture of local coffee shops

I thought that’s what was happening right now is they are looking at long term plans

AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:24 am ^Makes me wonder if the Royals owners would do the same tactics to Kauffman.

Almost assuredly especially if they want public money

FangKC wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 4:40 pm I agree about the grid zoning, and I've harped about it for years on here.

Yeah I get people like the suburban style, but JoCo is mostly grid and would go a long way to increasing density in KCMO and making it easier to expand services

Kc needs to do way more on zoning in the northland, require sidewalks, and ban cul de sacs. They seriously need some kind of grid there are so many dead zones at the moment

That too would be a great spot

Or built it over the west dock

Would love to see something at least the height of reverb there

normalthings wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 3:09 pm

flyingember wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 3:08 pm

normalthings wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 1:16 pm

KCS said they wanted to do a mixed use development there with the city.

The point being they can't sit on the land and do nothing because the city could move on.

I think the city is specifically saying the city doesnt want to develop there anymore

Then they should sell it

What was the KCS plan? It was on the parking lot next to their building, it's not owned by KCS. The city owns in today but for years it was tied up in a family squabble over who owned it after the owner passed. Hopefully they do something with that, could sell it off to a developer and use the mone...

What was the KCS plan?

I’m excited to see this project get done should definitely bring more life to the are especially with the first floor restaurant

I think a trendy hotel would do quite well hear. Similar to the crossroads hotel. I definitely think the traditional five or four stars should stay on the plaza or downtown