Issues concerning Downtown as described by the Downtown Council. River to 31st Street, I-35 to Bruce R. Watkins.
Eon Blue
Alameda Tower
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by Eon Blue » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:54 am
KCDowntown wrote: Two that were early 2000's that were really terrible are the
Law Building and the
Lathrop Building on Grand. Both are surface parking. The Lathrop is the site of the proposed downtown YMCA and the Law is on the north side of the pedestal for the proposed twisting Copaken office tower.
KCDowntown
mgh7676
Western Auto Lofts
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by mgh7676 » Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:39 pm
Brewery Emperial plans to join the East Crossroads brewery boom
Thompson has worked as the brewmaster at McCoy’s Public House since its 1997 opening, but he’s about to make his mark here. You can already see it: a “BE” he has added to one of the windows in white paint. This tagged-up address is the future home of Brewery Emperial, a four-vessel, 15-barrel brewhouse that Thompson says he’ll open in August with Room 39 restaurateur Ted Habiger and friend Rich Kasyjanski.
http://www.pitch.com/FastPitch/archives ... ewery-boom
Midtownkid
Hotel President
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by Midtownkid » Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:26 pm
Why does there have to be a flock of birds in EVERY damn rendering. I'm getting so sick of that.
super happy for this project, although in a weird way I will miss the way that little building looks with the parasitic billboards. Something interesting about that.
chaglang
Bryant Building
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by chaglang » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:01 pm
Midtownkid wrote: Why does there have to be a flock of birds in EVERY damn rendering. I'm getting so sick of that.
Renderings are so highbrow now. Bring back kids with balloons! And women pointing at things!
Aren't they just painting the building with the billboards growing out of it?
FangKC
City Hall
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by FangKC » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:09 pm
Ladies with parasols.
KCMax
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by KCMax » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:10 pm
chaglang wrote: Midtownkid wrote: Why does there have to be a flock of birds in EVERY damn rendering. I'm getting so sick of that.
Renderings are so highbrow now. Bring back kids with balloons! And women pointing at things!
Aren't they just painting the building with the billboards growing out of it?
We should go out and re-create rendering crowd pictures in developments that have come to fruition.
pash
Bryant Building
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by pash » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:55 pm
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FangKC
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by FangKC » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:51 pm
When I was taking advertising classes in journalism school, we often had to draw people in our ads. This was back in the day when we rendered our ads by hand (no computers).
Anyway, my advertising professor once commented that all the women in my ads looked like Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H.
DaveKCMO
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by DaveKCMO » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:09 pm
pretty solid intel that there might be a 3rd hotel in the works for the crossroads.
FangKC
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by FangKC » Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:36 pm
Any word on location?
KCPowercat
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by KCPowercat » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:48 pm
DaveKCMO wrote: pretty solid intel that there might be a 3rd hotel in the works for the crossroads.
# of rooms would be interesting hint
grovester
Oak Tower
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by grovester » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:49 pm
midwest, midwest, midwest!
JBmidtown
Colonnade
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by JBmidtown » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:18 pm
grovester wrote: midwest, midwest, midwest!
Yes, please. Such a sad corner as is. Would loveto see ssomething happen to that building
loftguy
Bryant Building
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by loftguy » Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:17 am
JBmidtown wrote: grovester wrote: midwest, midwest, midwest!
Yes, please. Such a sad corner as is. Would loveto see ssomething happen to that building
An empty building or lot is not sad to me. It is opportunity.
Empty is far preferable to a half-assed solution.
DaveKCMO
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by DaveKCMO » Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:44 am
FangKC wrote: Any word on location?
within walking distance of streetcar
FangKC
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by FangKC » Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:35 pm
Oh, it must be right on Main then, because we know Americans will not walk more than half-a-block.
Is it that formerly-proposed hotel near the Freighthouse buildings that fronted the Main Street Viaduct?
http://kcrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1 ... et+viaduct
This location.
DaveKCMO
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by DaveKCMO » Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:09 pm
chaglang wrote: Aren't they just painting the building with the billboards growing out of it?
the billboard are already gone.
saw a rendering today. they will build a courtyard to the south and some new construction to the north. great project!
DaveKCMO
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by DaveKCMO » Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:17 pm
get ready for a flurry of announcements east of grand this year, in addition to what's already been reported...
beautyfromashes
One Park Place
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by beautyfromashes » Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:41 pm
DaveKCMO wrote: get ready for a flurry of announcements east of grand this year, in addition to what's already been reported...
tease.
JBmidtown
Colonnade
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by JBmidtown » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:24 pm
DaveKCMO wrote: get ready for a flurry of announcements east of grand this year, in addition to what's already been reported...
Is that a prediction or a promise?