TheSmokinPun wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:08 pm
TheUrbanRoo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:53 pm
The anti-Crossroads people are acting no different than suburban NIMBY's. Not my area! Go elsewhere!
Even though it's ultimately the *best* option for the city downtown.
I'm not an art person and it would actually be much easier with current transit for me to get to the CR site but I still prefer the EV. You can cry out NIMBY all you want but it's the real NIMBY answer compared to the please god build something here anything site that the EV has been. A blank canvas full of potential, you'd think you'd want to fill in that area of the map that people in other towns have mocked us over.
I'm so disappointed too that only one side of the argument keeps jumping in and being negative towards people that have other opinions that might differ than your own. Supporting the East Village site is my belief and I'm allowed to have it.
This is comical. Go back about 200 pages when I first mention east crossroads and see the negativity I received. Scroll through the next several dozen pages and watch as I continue to be treated negatively, even called a liar as I was advocating for EC and trying to offer any insight I had.
I understand the concerns about East Village but frankly, I could care less about the exceptionally tiny amount of people in other cities who might find the lack of development in that area as an opportunity to poke fun at us. I'm not in favor of building something just to fill up a big hole if it's going to have a negative impact on the long term results of what is being built. If this were the premium option and there were no disadvantages, the east crossroads site wouldn't have ever been considered.
I want what's best for downtown and I want fan experience that makes coming to KC to watch your team play the Royals a bucket list item. We won't get that with East Village.
I respect people's opinions and love a good polite debate. I can get negative when the negatively comes my way though.
I keep trying to remind everyone in here to be positive because it's awesome we get to even seriously talk about this. It's great we get to witness such a huge development happen in our lifetimes. We've been on a roll and I don't take that for granted. Not everyone gets to live through a positive downtown/city revitalization.