Misc Crossroads News

[KCMax]

MLS All-Star Game logo being painted on side of Crossroads building

[WinchesterMysteryHouse]

Loftguy, if you think Stretch is trying to kill a windmill, you are misinformed.

[KCMax]

Henderson Engineers opening a new branch office in the Crossroads

Within the next two weeks, eight to 12 of Henderson's Lenexa-based employees will move to 5,800 square feet of space at a one-story building at 1619 Walnut Street, Rich Smith, president of Henderson Engineers, said in an interview.

[Eon Blue]

Love it.

"If we're going to call Kansas City our corporate headquarters ... we need to have a presence downtown," Smith said.

[thegeester68]

Love it.

"If we're going to call Kansas City our corporate headquarters ... we need to have a presence downtown," Smith said.

[brewcrew1000]

This is why despise Black and Veatch, they started out in KCMO and never really looked back. All they have in KCMO is some little office on 85th and ward parkway. I don't even think they really sponsor any kind of cultural amenities like Science City, Museums or ball fields.

[Volker Dad]

This is why despise Black and Veatch, they started out in KCMO and never really looked back. All they have in KCMO is some little office on 85th and ward parkway. I don't even think they really sponsor any kind of cultural amenities like Science City, Museums or ball fields.

And this is why I decided not to work there, or Burns and Mac...though the later seems to be more involved in the city than the former.

[earthling]

Not sure how accurate but Simplyhired.com is showing B&M is growing jobs more than any other company in KC, more than Cerner and Sprint at the moment. B&M has an important impact to KC economy but would be nice to see them step up with being more involved with the city.

Job posts on simplyhired.com for KC
Burns & Mcdonnell 950
Cerner 535
Black & Veatch 523
Sprint 487

There are probably duplicate postings but the ratio still appears to be that B&M is growing jobs fastest in KC.

[brewcrew1000]

This is why despise Black and Veatch, they started out in KCMO and never really looked back. All they have in KCMO is some little office on 85th and ward parkway. I don't even think they really sponsor any kind of cultural amenities like Science City, Museums or ball fields.

And this is why I decided not to work there, or Burns and Mac...though the later seems to be more involved in the city than the former.

I heard Black and Veatch is a horrible place to work for, people have told me that if you have seniority and been there for many years that the company will try to force you out and replace you with a lower paying/younger engineer/worker.

[chaglang]

This is why despise Black and Veatch, they started out in KCMO and never really looked back. All they have in KCMO is some little office on 85th and ward parkway. I don't even think they really sponsor any kind of cultural amenities like Science City, Museums or ball fields.

And this is why I decided not to work there, or Burns and Mac...though the later seems to be more involved in the city than the former.

BMcD was a big supporter of the e-tax when it came up for a vote a few years back.

[DaveKCMO]

Seeking approval for two encroachments resulting from the historic renovation of the 7-story Globe building at 1712 Main Street: outward door swings and the installation of a new Siamese Fire Department connection. Patricia R. Jensen of WGBMS&W, Brad Nicholson of 1712 Main Street, LLC, Brian Czerw of Stark Wilson Duncan Architects and John Williams presenting.

this was the home of retro inferno before they moved to truman and grand. has been vacant since.

[loftguy]

Seeking approval for two encroachments resulting from the historic renovation of the 7-story Globe building at 1712 Main Street: outward door swings and the installation of a new Siamese Fire Department connection. Patricia R. Jensen of WGBMS&W, Brad Nicholson of 1712 Main Street, LLC, Brian Czerw of Stark Wilson Duncan Architects and John Williams presenting.

this was the home of retro inferno before they moved to truman and grand. has been vacant since.

Also the original home of el dorado architects and that ultrahip, eastern-european, soviet bloc era, poster gallery that they operated when they weren't pushing pencils.

[KCMax]

Renovation of the Western Blue building (1808 Main)



https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 9434e2cd3a

[kboish]

I am liking how there is a trend of blowing out blank brick walls to put in windows around downtown. that building was horrendous before.

[scooterj]

I am liking how there is a trend of blowing out blank brick walls to put in windows around downtown. that building was horrendous before.

I may have missed a thread somewhere, but wasn't that building taller before? Or is my mind just playing tricks on me with the building's facade being off?

[DaveKCMO]

yes, the northern third (where the main western blue entrance was) had two additional stories that were recently removed.

[kboish]

Looks like there did used to be a couple story structure to the north.

I didn't even notice it was gone in the pic.

[taxi]

Love the planters! I hope they put them back.

[flyingember]

I am liking how there is a trend of blowing out blank brick walls to put in windows around downtown. that building was horrendous before.

the other nice trend is removing back to the historic brick and ceilings and then not putting anything back in front.

the building I work in is like this. we have a lot of surface conduit as a result.

[Joe Smith]

I am liking how there is a trend of blowing out blank brick walls to put in windows around downtown. that building was horrendous before.

It's quite possible that whenever the building was remodeled 30-40 years, that the windows were either filled in or covered up and they're just putting the windows back in.

There's are a lot of buildings around downtown and in the Xroads that had their windows covered following a redo in the 60's or 70's. The building on the northeast corner of 18th & McGee reclaimed their windows and the one on the west side of Oak between 18th and 19th did the same and added more.

The building that Midwest Musical is in at 19th & Locust used to have huge plate glass windows in it's life as an auto parts store. You can now see where they filled the space in later and added smaller windows, which were mostly all removed and bricked in. 19th & Oak had auto junkyards or auto related businesses on every corner at one time.

The former Circulation building owned by the Star on the corner of 17th & McGee used to have huge windows as well that were covered up in the 60's or 70's.