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It's the kind of thing that people who don't stop downtown can point to as an example. Example of what? new development... versus the Commerce Tower which is a much bigger project but is going to be 95% interior work. You get more bang from a tower conversion but it's not something people will noti...

I actually know the guys in the article. Kenny was in the same Boy Scout troop as I was, about four years younger.

If walls could talk, the newly restored Victorian home at 39th and Holmes in Hyde Park would be thanking Ken and Kenny Personett for saving its life. “It was time to knock it down,” Ken remembers, which is precisely what attracted him to purchase it last year. “I want houses that are uninhabitable,...

I agree with your sentiment, but on the other hand, the port authority is a different tool in the toolbox. And the potential of adding that area, and the riverfront in general is too much of a prize to put off. Agreed! And unlike all the great projects filling lots, the riverfront project will be v...

the 1% art thing is kind of particular.

I don't know if $2 million annual assistance counts

I'm going to be in Houston in September. We'll see if I get to the new lines. My brother lives one block from a stop on the red line so it's super convenient to use. Houston is an interesting analogy to the KC Streetcar. In their downtown the train has the same average stop spacing as our system. Th...

The preliminary website is up for two light. http://twolightkc.com Interesting thing is the threelightkc and fourlightkc urls have also been secured. Cordish must be planning to move quickly on these developments. You clearly haven't worked somewhere that buys every domain name and its variants so ...

^ I can't see something that ugly being built in KC. That thing would look hideous against our skyline, making it out of balance. An outstanding building is needed for the east side of the skyline - but not that one it's for a much larger city where it won't stand out so much and/or port city with ...

Obviously you are not familiar with the site. The hill cannot be "flattened out" as Wyandotte St is on it(along with the KCPA and the Bartle ballroom). The western half of the block is level with Wyandotte. The eastern half is already the lower level of Baltimore. So then, they will use t...

Obviously you are not familiar with the site. The hill cannot be "flattened out" as Wyandotte St is on it(along with the KCPA and the Bartle ballroom). The western half of the block is level with Wyandotte. The eastern half is already the lower level of Baltimore. You clearly haven't real...

That looks like Bartle Hall, just on top of a building

If they can get more outside investment, they would probably build to 1,000 rooms before building a residential component. A new high floor room at $200 per night is way more lucrative than an apartment at $2000 per month. since $200 * just used 20 days per month = $4000. Lot more daily expense inv...

ldai_phs wrote:If they can get more outside investment, they would probably build to 1,000 rooms before building a residential component.

A new high floor room at $200 per night is way more lucrative than an apartment at $2000 per month.

since $200 * just used 20 days per month = $4000.

We could push the fact that less goes a lot farther here. Why buy 1 home in LA when you can buy 2-4 in Kansas City. Setting up the city website with multiple languages is a start, but I believe we may need a separate website for this. What appeals to us( Americans) in a website may not appeal to th...

In this tweet there is a picture of one light. It's not topped out yet in the picture but it's close to the height of the hrblock tower. https://twitter.com/WestMoSports/status/597899233526558720 Bad angle to see the height, because One Light will be 25% taller 291 feet vs 236 feet. HRB is built sl...

bhedges1987 wrote:Any update on the new one single terminal at kci?

I don't think we expect anything until next year.

Here's some more info on them trying to get this pushed through Before Aug. 1 http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2015/05/11/300m-convention-hotel-on-fast-track-to-friendly.html After reading that..... Why are they not making it bigger. That's what they want and need yet they aren't doing it...

To put that in perspective, the hotel across the street is 10 stories. The sporting building is 6.

any updates on floors / height yet??? I'M CURIOUS!!!!! I thought today was the day they are announcing it, and they are announcing it with out giving us any details! One Light still hasn't given the official height yet. Don't expect that until completion of the building. Floor number could be in fl...

As an aside, Laugh O Gram studios aren't in a neighborhood at all. The 3100 block of Troost/Forest - and possibly as far as Paseo, I can't remember - have held themselves apart in the hope of starting their own neighborhood. The city has a label for them even if they don't. Between Troost and Paseo...