Well, for the most part, the Westport folks(the bargoers, anyway) aren't generally urban-dwellers, and urban-dwellers(I find) are a bit more accepting of people different than themselves than the typical Westport clubber.
Not trying make a definition. Just stating what I have noticed.
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- Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:32 am
- Forum: Downtown Archive
- Topic: 'In the Life" moving to crossroads district
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2002
- Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:27 am
- Forum: Downtown Archive
- Topic: Traffic Signals
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1917
Traffic Signals
Avoid the hassle of the downtown lights by taking the bus and reading to forget about your surroundings.
- Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:25 am
- Forum: Downtown Archive
- Topic: What's happening? will Downtown pull out of this funk?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7462
What's happening? will Downtown pull out of this funk?
While an arena/ballpark will make downtown look better, it won't actually change anything, materially. Downtowns(and any places, for that matter) improve with economic opportunity, and not with museums, performing arts centers, and sport venues. Those wonderful things are results(symptoms) of prospe...
- Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:03 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Beacon Hill
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6569
Beacon Hill
I have a buddy from KC who just took a two-year contract in Orlando. His plan is to finish that up, and move back to KC and get a downtown condo, because this area will, as he says, "blow up." I can't help but agree, if the present course is resumed.
- Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:00 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: OFFICIAL: New Westport tenants
- Replies: 67
- Views: 12557
OFFICIAL: New Westport tenants
I think Westport would become much more of a local nightspot if the discotheques went elsewhere, and I agree heartily that they would fit well downtown. What draws the people from outside the relatively immediate neighborhood is not Buzzard Beach or AC's Garage. People come from Lee's Summit and Len...
- Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:53 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Late Night Helicopters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3139
Late Night Helicopters
I am not sure if I have heard enough helicopters in Midtown to be used to them yet(not like police and ambulance sirens), but I honestly just don't hear them that much. I could have thick walls or something, but all I ever hear outside is the occasional fireworks show, planes flying over head, siren...
- Wed Apr 23, 2003 11:05 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: More arguments against a hub airport
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3272
More arguments against a hub airport
I have flown SW 6 times since 9/11(it being my favorite airline, hands down), and getting in and out of security at KCI is fine. As for Denver's fares going up, such is life. The hub style is a dying breed, and that's fine with me. The solution should be another company(or transit method) coming in ...
- Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:59 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Main Street MAX
- Replies: 1369
- Views: 190491
Re: Main Street MAX
I sure hope not. The 56 is the only one that I know of that runs really late, and the one that'll get me to work at 11 PM, if we move to where I think we're moving.KC wrote:I bet 56/57/51 are discontinued and made into E-W feeder routes.
- Thu Apr 17, 2003 4:45 am
- Forum: Out of Town Talk
- Topic: Do you like this architecture style?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3790
Do you like this architecture style?
I think it looks interesting, but still ugly. I would hate to have a building that looks like that in my town.
- Fri Apr 11, 2003 7:03 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Western Auto Lofts
- Replies: 56
- Views: 17086
Western Auto Lofts
That is such wonderful news!
- Thu Apr 10, 2003 1:38 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - IRS HQ construction
- Replies: 359
- Views: 69787
OFFICIAL - IRS HQ construction
Excellent!
- Mon Apr 07, 2003 8:56 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Main Street MAX
- Replies: 1369
- Views: 190491
Re: Main Street MAX
I would ride, like a fox!
- Mon Apr 07, 2003 8:52 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 6032
- Views: 1699328
Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
-omitted-
Upon investigation, I found I was wrong in my assertion.
Upon investigation, I found I was wrong in my assertion.
- Sat Apr 05, 2003 12:08 pm
- Forum: Missouri Suburbs
- Topic: Forum on growth and sprawl in Missouri
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2883
Forum on growth and sprawl in Missouri
And in that time, if memory serves me, from last time I looked at the census site(I love it), KC itself only gained a bit over 6000 people, out of 193,000. Now, that's sprawl.
- Sat Apr 05, 2003 12:04 pm
- Forum: Missouri Suburbs
- Topic: Grain Valley looks like it will be KC's next big suburb.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2817
Grain Valley looks like it will be KC's next big suburb.
It's just the consuming nature of the sprawl cycle. Grain Valley will be a cookie-cutter suburb, with good schools and Old Navy shopping, and Odessa will be on the drawing board, while KC, Independence, Raytown, and Blue Springs rot in the sprawl's wake.
- Sat Apr 05, 2003 12:02 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Armour Blvd Loft Condos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2538
Armour Blvd Loft Condos
And I wonder if they can attract people to places that far east on Armour.
- Sat Apr 05, 2003 11:58 am
- Forum: Downtown Archive
- Topic: Is Cordish Co. good for downtown?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6614
Is Cordish Co. good for downtown?
Because it would need to be subsidized. To get people in JoCo to vote for the tax increase, some other deal-sweetener, like adding lanes to I-35, would have to happen. Once that cookie gets handed to the people, they will _never_ ride the train.
Oh... and I like Union Station. it's cool.
Oh... and I like Union Station. it's cool.
- Thu Apr 03, 2003 9:06 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Lee's Summit Republican against transit tax...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1744
Lee's Summit Republican against transit tax...
I understand that often public transit needs a significant capital investment to get going, but that's initial. However, there is no reason that daily running and maintenance should be publicly subsidized. That proves that it has already failed. Other things need to change before countless millions ...
- Thu Apr 03, 2003 9:01 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Downtowner bus is gone and no one cares
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5879
Re: Downtowner bus is gone and no one cares
I think it's horrible when the ATA shuts down lines, especially ones that many people like, but the truth of the matter is that with the city's current favortism to individuals driving their own cars, the ATA doesn't stand a chance. Unfortunately, the greatest percentage of the ridership of the ATA ...
- Fri Mar 21, 2003 3:40 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - IRS HQ construction
- Replies: 359
- Views: 69787
OFFICIAL - IRS HQ construction
Yeah, maybe one day it'll be like a real downtown, after 5, too.
I sure hope so.
I sure hope so.