Historic Old Northeast

[Demosthenes]

Jeez, when is all this misfortune going to stop for this corner. One of the best urban corners in the city is getting flattened by random accidents.

[mean]

The loss of the church / theater was a pretty big blow, but between the 7-11, KFC, and vacant parking lot adjacent to a vacant Rent-A-Center, I'm not sure the four corners of the intersection are particularly deserving of being called the best of anything. It's sad, really.

[FangKC]

I noticed the other day that Custom Truck & Equipment appears to have taken over the former Sheffeld Steel (Armco) sheds on the south side of Independence Avenue, and are using them to park old trucks, and disassemble them.

Custom Truck has also built a new administration building on the south part of their property on the west side of I-435 (indicated on diagram).

[earthling]

iPho Tower is quite good and better than when they first opened. The pho is a good solid base and served with proper fresh herbs but unfortunately bland so I bring Tasty Thai chile sauce (KC North restaurant but Chinatown Market carries the bottles) and it perks it up nicely. They also have a chile paste but oddly you have to ask for it. Will also pickup pho to go, saute some Argentine shrimp in Tasty Thai sauce at home and it works great in the pho. Have taken a Vietnamese coworker there from Little Saigon in SoCal and he thought they were better than most LS places. Hope they can keep up the quality. The new Vietnamese place at 5th/Grand also has great beef marrow based pho. Vietnam Cafe in Columbus Park still wins for vermicelli.

KC's got Vietnamese down - now if we could get better Thai in city core and maybe some dedicated ramen noodle shops.

[FangKC]

Yes, more ramen noodle shops.

[mean]

How about any ramen noodle shops? I know Sama Zama does some ramen, or at least they did, but they're not exactly a ramen noodle shop. Are there some out there I'm missing?

[KCMax]

Yes, more ramen noodle shops.

Yes, I have been beating this drum for years.

[earthling]

City Market could use a small counter ramen noodle soup shop with a case filled with this...

[FangKC]

We need a ramen noodle shop on a corner every 10 blocks or so--like Starbucks.

[FangKC]

The Old Northeast Facebook page reports that the CEO of Kansas City University School of Medicine and Biosciences has purchased the Capri Motel on the SE corner of Paseo and Independence Avenue, and plans to demolish it as part of their long-term campus expansion plan.

There should be more news tomorrow.

[Eon Blue]

This is a positive step, but I do hope that something gets built back there at some point.

[FangKC]

There is the Paseo Gateway Plan that outlines the redevelopment of the area.

http://www.paseogateway.com/transformation-plan/

[flyingember]

There is the Paseo Gateway Plan that outlines the redevelopment of the area.

http://www.paseogateway.com/transformation-plan/

good plan, full implementation is easily 50 years away.

[loftguy]

The Old Northeast Facebook page reports that the CEO of Kansas City University School of Medicine and Biosciences has purchased the Capri Motel on the SE corner of Paseo and Independence Avenue, and plans to demolish it as part of their long-term campus expansion plan.

There should be more news tomorrow.

The Capri, and the Admiral motel across the street, have been neighborhood cankers for over fifty years. Robbers, whores and horse dealers, convicts, con-artists, countless murders and murderers.

Again, nothing is often better than something.

Hopeful for the gateway plan.

[FangKC]

The Capri, and the Admiral motel across the street, have been neighborhood cankers for over fifty years. Robbers, whores and horse dealers, convicts, con-artists, countless murders and murderers.

Are they dating anyone, and do you have their numbers?

[Pork Chop]

The good news just keeps rolling for KC....

KC expects $30 million federal grant to transform decrepit Chouteau Courts housing

Kansas City Housing Authority officials are expecting a formal announcement that they have won a coveted $30 million federal grant to demolish the Chouteau Courts low-income housing project and transform the surrounding Northeast area.

The plan calls for demolishing Chouteau Courts and relocating residents to smaller, mixed-income sites over the next five years. Many residents may be relocated to units in the designated district, but those wishing to move to the Northland will also be given that option.

The grant involves much more than housing.

It also aims to improve the area’s educational, health, business development and social services. It calls for providing better bus and bike access and infrastructure improvements, including redoing the congested intersection at Independence and the Paseo.

It also seeks to create a clean, safer environment and remove vacant, blighted properties to alleviate residents’ concerns about car thefts, other property and vice crimes and drug activity.

Another key feature is assistance for businesses, many of which are entrepreneurial ventures by immigrants and other diverse groups.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/governme ... rylink=cpy

[kboish]

Its pretty incredible we got this. I remember hearing about the redevelopment plan and thinking- cool, this will be great for that area. Then i heard it was contingent on this super competitive HUD funding and I remembering think- welp, that will never happen. Very cool, and impressive, that we actually got it! $30 million is a pretty huge grant.

[mgh7676]

MUCH better than the Chouteau Courts buildings, but still amazed that a development that is supposed to link this neighborhood back with the surrounding community has such an extreme retaining wall separating it from the community.

[FangKC]

Groundbreaking on the Rosehill Townhomes at Admiral and Troost today.

http://tinyurl.com/okbr8a5

https://www.facebook.com/Theartsasylum/ ... =3&theater

[Eon Blue]

MUCH better than the Chouteau Courts buildings, but still amazed that a development that is supposed to link this neighborhood back with the surrounding community has such an extreme retaining wall separating it from the community.

This must be the rendering of the Rosehill Townhomes I was asking about in the Troost thread.