KCRag Forum

1.) Last season the Kansas City Comets averaged nearly 5,500 fans per game. I have seen the actual turnstile reports for Comets games in the past. An ANNOUNCED crowd of 5,000 was actually around 2,000. 4,000 announced was 1,500 and so on. Unless things changed last year their 5,500 people were at m...

i dont really care about my grammer or any of that crap. Get off of that dude With that type of attitude you are ripe for failure in the business world. If you want to be a professional you have to talk, act, and behave as a professional when it is required. And if you are asking for help then don'...

For those that might remember the old River Quay in the 70's what made that area really nice, especially for live entertainment, was multi-level buildings. You could go up some outdoor stairs to one bar. The steps would be located in a courtyard area. From the front of the building you could enter a...

Since my serious drinking days were finished over 20 years ago I have no experience with the current bar scene. And my only experience with a gay bar, if you would call it that, was the Jewel Box when it was on Main (mostly straight couples watching drag entertainers). For info only, are there no ga...

Remember working the New Car Show at Bartle Hall a few years back. Some people were complaining about having to park two blocks away. Now remember Bartle Hall is 4 blocks long and if they see the whole show they would probably walk at least 8 blocks.

In conversing with one of my friends today he reminded me that KCMO has to be concerned with its debt limits, adding more debt without retiring other debt could lower the city's bond rating. Right now the city is close to that point. So for the city to go alone on any big project and incur debt from...

Yes, but going from $0 to whatever will be a bite. Do the owners have any idea of what the taxes would be if they had to be paid?

As far as I remember, Western Auto, Wallstreet, Bridgeworks, Conover Place, and The View all have 100% tax abatements. Possibly the The Metropolitan. also. That's the majority of the condo projects currently going on. I'm not opposed to it for the more affordable units, but I thought it was inappro...

Some ugly multi story apartments and some halfway decent (at the time) townhouse style rental buildings. Anyway, if houses were built then at least you would have most if not all of the houses owner occupied instead of rental properties. Ownership is always more stable. The area is kept up quite wel...

The Comets draw 2,000 people, if they are lucky, on most nights. My high school BB team draws more people than the Knights. The Outlaws haven't been around long enough to even say they will survive. Wow, the Explorers with 6 to 7 dates with 2,000 to 3,000 people. If there is an NBA team kiss the Kni...

Excuse me, but don't confuse me with Personwhoknowsall. I was mixing up Conference USA for the conference that UMKC is in since that was part of the original statement. What is the name of UMKC's conference? Substitute that conference name for Conference USA and what are the results with my questions?

My wife and I went to NFM a few weeks ago at lunch time. It was busy. Don't know if people were buying but they were in the store. Went to Famous Dave's afterwards for a late lunch/early dinner. We will take KC BBQ anytime, especially Jack's Stack or Smokestack. But they were packed at that time of ...

Whether Olathe or OP builds an arena, or both, the arena will basically be just a glorified high school gym. You will have HS basketball games during the season and maybe some state games during the post season. Any professional sports will be third rate major league (MISL) or poor man's hockey or b...

Hopefully they will do better than what happened at the old Sante Fe Hills Country Club south of 85th and Holmes many years ago. However, money talks and there might be more money in apts than in homes.

The article said they have only 800 new residences in downtown in the last four years but doesn't their total of 5,600 exceeds KC?

Tried to find the right subject matter for this article but did not find one. This article about St. Louis mentions many steps that community is taking that I have not heard that KC is doing. For you "art type" people the building described in the article should be interesting for you. Her...

If you have a cow then have the water coming from the udders or the rear end, brown water that is.

Conference USA and similiar conferences are second tier or even third tier Div 1 conferences. When was the last time a conference team win a game in the NCAA March Madness? How many games in the last 5 years? Against higher seeded teams? There are over 270 teams in Div 1 I believe. Probably only 100...

Having a visible police presence will provide a sense of security for many and will help. If police happen to scare some people then maybe they don't need to be there. Face it, this will be a tourist trap mostly and if the tourists do not feel safe they will not visit the area. The area will not sur...

You can have both mass transit and a downtown stadium. First, choose a stadium site. Then choose the areas where the trains, monorail, whatever will run. Royals stay at the SC till after 2015. That gives the area 10 years of planning and construction to do both and open at close to the same time in ...