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The fact that so much of KC’s parkland was initially built on land developers didn’t want doesn’t help. Instead of building parks amongst neighborhoods, we instead built a lot of parks on the leftover land, on craggy cliffs and hills that are just tougher landscapes for parks

I know it might well have had zero difference, but personally it’s hard to imagining KC losing so many of these local businesses had they been strongly downtown instead of anonymous businesses parks. Counterpoint is DST which was very much in downtown and completely collapsed. At least we got some n...

FangKC wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 10:36 pm https://www.instagram.com/p/Ctg5-_vLaAi ... BiNWFlZA==

It's sad to see that the interior had that much original(?) ceiling ornament left. Probably irreparable at this point...

There’s a trash chute and workers. Obviously just interior demo

New southfacing sign

This is a huge relief, but I’d love if we were able to keep things from getting this bad. Vacant buildings in a downtown are typical, but ruins are dangerous

FangKC wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:48 pm

Woah

If the city can force demolition, why can’t they just, claim the building and pass it over to someone who might be able to maintain it? Not sure why the only options for this kind of thing are leaving the building untouched or completely obliterating it

This might be getting too abstract, but I’m an advocate for airport rail connectors because it essentially builds the airport into downtown. The great train stations of the US used to be generally located in or near downtowns, which was great because it gave locals a central location to arrive and d...

Downtown has been through an absolutely astonishing amount of abuse and amputation

Guess we’ll just not invest in any park space, transit, etc. whatsoever until there’s not a single person left unhoused. I can’t fathom the race to the bottom mentality some of you guys have. Let’s just pour concrete in the swimming pools while we’re at it because sometimes people go there that are...

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 3:00 pm Does anyone on this urban forum actually live in the city? Sometimes I get the feeling everyone is just sitting on their computer in the Northland or Shawnee.

Downtown!

This project has been discussed for probably 15+ years at this point. I’m sorry but I am not holding my breath right now

https://www.kclibrary.org/sites/default/files/railway06.png https://53studio.com/products/kansas-city-electric-interurban-railways-map-1926?_pos=1&_sid=de49d572e&_ss=r KC used to have an electric intercity rail as well as the streetcar network? Man that's depressing And overhead wire trolle...

Culturally KC is hyped for the world cup, but it seems like the powers that be have been slow on the uptake. There are at least half a dozen hotel projects that were proposed before covid that haven’t come back alive, even though the WC will probably be the highest demand for hotels in KC history. T...

Pretty ugly. 90% of the architecture of the plaza mall is just so bad

Looks kinda 70s, in the bad ways

I’m not seeing a huge difference either. The plaza at 1:08 looked kinda nice but that’s not really a “street” improvement