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DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:43 am Let's start a petition to get the KCPS to put this building out for proposals to adaptively reuse for affordable housing!

KCDowntown wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:04 am On this month's TIF agenda is a proposal to demolish the Board of Education building at 12th & McGee and replace it with a 242-room Drury Plaza Hotel.

Includes 5,000 sqft of meeting space and 176 space garage.

See page 7 of the agenda.

KCDowntown

The former Board of Education building at 1211 McGee, slated for demolition under a now-withdrawn Drury Hotel proposal, has been listed as one of 15 “Places in Peril” in Missouri by a prominent state historic preservation group.

The Board of Ed building, completed in 1960, is the only Kansas City building included on the 2018 list compiled by the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation.
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flyingember wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:00 pm Conversely, this feels like a building where adding new wings in glass could work really well. Purposefully highlight the difference in styles.

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:16 pm

flyingember wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:00 pm Conversely, this feels like a building where adding new wings in glass could work really well. Purposefully highlight the difference in styles.

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:16 pm

flyingember wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:00 pm Conversely, this feels like a building where adding new wings in glass could work really well. Purposefully highlight the difference in styles.

KCTOGA wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:21 pmIf this building could be made to look anything like this, it would be awesome! Top skin on this building is hideous. Love the bottom bot looks like it could use a serious cleaning.

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 6:01 pm

KCTOGA wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:21 pmIf this building could be made to look anything like this, it would be awesome! Top skin on this building is hideous. Love the bottom bot looks like it could use a serious cleaning.

I was actually think more that this cladding would be for a potential addition to the south. I'm assuming, if the building gets developed, they will use historic tax credits, which would retain the orignal facade

loftguy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:59 pm I try to allow for all kinds of tastes, but the call to tear this building down because of its appearance, is outrageous.

No degree of difference from prior generations who destroyed 95% of our architectural treasure....because they were 'out of fashion' or 'too expensive to renovate'.

The library/school board building really is a difficult challenge to renovate, because of the construction techniques of the glass skin and the difficulty to prepare for the next sixty years....but exhaust the possibilities before you give in to demo.

Jeez.

FangKC wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:01 pm We can't just tear down every building because someone doesn't like it.

There are other reasons to reuse a building. Climate change. Anyone who denies this is just burying their head in the sand. When discussing demolition, we need to remind ourselves that gases from producing the concrete, steel, glass, etc. as well as the gasoline trucking the materials there, are still up in our atmosphere heating the planet.

Tearing it down to just build a replacement 10-15-story building, which will produce even more gases, is foolish. This situation is exactly why historic tax credits were intended. We should probably change the name of these credits to conservation tax credits, because we are conserving natural resources and our planet, as much as conservation of historic properties.