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what I continue to find interesting in NKC HS is more diverse than most of the KCMO schools. It's roughly 60% white. The southern northland is one place people move to when they leave the KCPSD when they want a quality education. That's the problem with integration, it doesn't help when the black an...

the black middle class headed outwards into the suburbs.
amazingly someone put all the class photos for a recent class up so you can see how ethnically diverse the southern northland is
http://www.northkansascityhighschool.co ... s/2012.htm

For being at the plaza, hopefully it's larger than that

pash wrote:So, main entrance from the rear parking lot? ...

That's a guest entrance. The main entrance is likely on the street where they can do valet parking

the chinese restaurant that was once outside the Sam's Club on N. Oak.

the new building being built in it's place is a Freddy's

I think Liberty high school before the late 90s renovation had the pod style mentioned already. it had pods of six classrooms without walls, each room didn't have it's own door, so you had to walk through other classrooms to get to some of them. I'm not quite sure what it was, but the big common are...

Straubs. Strouds is KC pan-fried chicken. As far as Schnucks, I've never seen so much variablity in quality of selection and layout in a chain grocery store, especially between all the St. Louis City and inner suburban stores. It sort of annoying unless you are used to it. There are schnucks in cen...

[...but the net impact of AL on the district's surplus buildings is essentially zero. As is AL's impact on keeping people from moving to the burbs. Not true. I have at least five families that I know that have moved to Kansas because they didn't get picked in the AL lottery system. They couldn't af...

i wonder when they are going to release the details for the two light tower. Mr. Collison via Twitter: A deal is close to being announced from what I've been told informally by a city official in the know. Cordish said the same thing in January, that they were close, so take that with a grain of salt

the equipment is new, they just had fences yesterday

Too many times developers go with design that's 'safe' or whatever is least expensive. Power & Light is a good example of a missed opportunity to have unique architecture that could draw visitors in and of itself. Instead or modern, cosmopolitan or even art deco we end up with warehouse wannabe...

it all depends on the zoning. right now, the problem with multiple parcels is they usually require setbacks on all four sides, each needs bike parking, an entrance, a certain number of car parking spots, utility access, right now where density and urban design is of any interest single large parcels...

The best thing that could happen to downtown with schools is to split off and join the NKC district. Districts already cross county borders so no worries there. NKC HS is 10 minutes from downtown.

Van Horn and it's feeders moved to Independence schools so there's a precedent already.

2.25 blocks of track to go in the crossroads (1850 to 2075). Delaware looks really good. I never cease to be amazed how bad people will park with evidence of how to do it staring them in the face. On the back in parking I predict there's going to be videos of a car backing away from a train after ot...

grovester wrote:It was written that way for a reason.

thus my point

too many words that don't contribute to the piece. one would think that educators would know how to write to the point

I have a feeling this project may drag on until second creek starts developing. there's no need for more retail in the 152 corridor right now but add 75,000 people and that will change. and the empty commercial land outdoes even what's at and near Metro North the shopping center with target across 1...

Finally the end may be in sight...in 2 and a half more years! I understand addressing neighborhood concerns and increased traffic projections, but how many on-street parking spaces were in danger of being lost at the expense of covered parking? And how long does it take negotiate the addition of tr...

looks like approx. $4000 per space to install removal, one demo/rebuild to a landscaped area project in Portland a decade ago was $3.80 per square foot. So go with $8/square foot today since construction costs did skyrocket. for comparison, the lot at the Corrigan Building on main is approx 16500 sq...

let's you have $10 million total to make changes on KCMO city streets today. Your goal is to maximize the changes you could make to get the most impact on as broad an area with improvements for as many modes as possible. Assume that nothing is off limits. You don't need to replace anything you remov...