Sounds like VERY good news for DT KC today!

WILDCAT NATION · Post by **WILDCAT NATION** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:14 pm

Just want to say

to KC...

This is great news for the city.

Now, where's that darned new arena gonna be?

KCDevin · Post by **KCDevin** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:15 pm

if it is still going to be where they planned it then at 13th and Grand

WILDCAT NATION · Post by **WILDCAT NATION** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:27 pm

Just thought I would ad that I am heading to Charleston, SC (one of the cities that this developer has done I think) next week. Anything you guys would like me to look for specifically?

I'm sure KC will let me know if he wants pics or anything.

tat2kc · Post by **tat2kc** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:38 pm

pictures! and your impression of the overall design and feel of the space! oh and pictures. lots of pictures.

trailerkid · Post by **trailerkid** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:39 pm

Take some pics of the Cordish development there...sort of a KC research project/"what will KC Live look like"?

WILDCAT NATION · Post by **WILDCAT NATION** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:43 pm

I will do what I can...I've been down there before and didn't notice it much. Must have been in a different area. We went to old town Charleston.
I will have my brother show me the new stuff.

GuyInLenexa · Post by **GuyInLenexa** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:23 pm

This is a great day for all of Greater Kansas City.
KC Live and H&R Block herald a bright future for Downtown.
With the Federal Reserve complex and the IRS people moving across from Union Station, it seems that the path is paved for success.
A dynamic centerpiece for the entire extended city will strengthen the economy.
I hope the arena will be next.
I hope that more bi-state projects will come up in the near future, so the burden of taxation will not fall on the already strapped central city.
I think HR made a good decision.
I was hoping that Bill Esrey (when he was leading the Union Station renovation) would have considered downtown as a location for Sprint. At one time I was told that Sprint considered a 55 story downtown with additional 4 20 story buildings near. I just heard someone speak of this in a meeting the other day. It that would have happened, I would probably still be living in MO.
I would like to see centers of employment centralized, not so dispersed as it is develeping here in KC and most other cities. It would lay the way of practical rapid transit grid for the near future.
Great job, KCMO.
I think I may go to the DB to celebrate tonight. Of course, I look for any excuse.

G.I.L.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:56 pm

WN...thanks for joining.....this is the best day I've ever had since running this site. The upswing downtown is so high I think it's already on fire.