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Just look at your post comparing two hotels. Ok. The President was in worse shape and abandoned. The Muehlebach is in better condition and the bottom floor is used. You say that is apples to oranges, which, sure, could be true, but what point are you making by saying they're different. Are you sayi...

aknowledgeableperson wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:42 pm Two different buildings with their own unique problems.

Not sure what your point is

aknowledgeableperson wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:02 pm Apples and oranges. Apples and oranges.

Please elaborate

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I can’t imagine it was much different when the President was renovated. In fact I understand the President was in even worse condition since it was totally abandoned

It remains a solid example of Kansas City's infatuation with baubles rather than the less sexy work of real city building. In defense of the Kauffman center itself, I think it honest is a phenomenal piece of architecture, and its appearance on almost any piece of merch featuring the skyline shows h...

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:42 pm Do the same thing with one of the smaller parks like Twins stadium.

Busch to-scale, laid from Grand eastward

I just want this to be a busy hotel lobby again please, whatever it takes

Can Marriott encourage the current owners (whatever entity that might be) to renovate and reopen the historic section? Are hotel flags in charge of renovating their rooms and facilities or is that down to the owner? To a layman, I have to tell you, the hotel industry is absolutely inscrutable. If it...

It opened over 12 years ago but is still without a single piece of adjacent development besides the convention hotel. Frankly an insult. I know the hotel bravo was supposed to fill in like 5% of the damaged area but even that was a shockingly undercooked proposal. I think someone, either the city or...

In my experience the east village site is pretty close to the rest of the loop. It is IN the loop. The loop is about a mile wide, so anything within it is at most half a mile from the streetcar. The attitude that EV is “over there” is just not true, and it shows how the urban core is imagined as a c...

langosta wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:41 am*Marriott gets paid a license fee by hotel owners who may or may not make an operating profit* the more luxurious or historic properties are often not the ones with high NOI

Does Marriott not own the Muehlebach hotel building?

I think if a 10 lane freeway had been bulldozed straight through the church in columbus park back in the 60s, the residents of today still wouldn’t support the freeway’s removal, just because it would be change and they can’t know for sure if its removal will negatively effect them somehow. Sure, it...

Did the vince bryant 3d development project fall through then?

The empty fields and parking lots around liberty memorial mall were originally planned as a veritable acropolis of museums, which never got built. Maybe that could be a good site for a museum campus? A miniature version of the smithsonian museums flanking the national mall in DC

“A river in the city of fountains” is a wonderful book about the history of KC’s waterways

I feel like it’s some of the massive cross country trips that keeps a certain amount of goodwill towards amtrak alive. It’s not just a commuter system, it can be this crazy, weird land cruise that cuts these legendary routes across the country. Sometimes 9 hours late, sure but you win some you lose ...

The amount of biodiversity that was killed off by engineering the river was catastrophic. It could all be remediated but that would require caring…so tough sell in this climate