Discuss items in the urban core outside of Downtown as described above. Everything in the core including the east side (18th & Vine area), Northeast, Plaza, Westport, Brookside, Valentine, Waldo, 39th street, & the entire midtown area.
The $5 million project will connect the single-point urban interchange and Bond Bridge to the River Market neighborhood via the Grand Street Viaduct and the Columbus Park neighborhood at Lydia Street. An unexpected windfall of stimulus money in the region helped make the project possible.
Port Chairman Trey Runnion said the new road will help boost efforts to pay for a multi-use redevelopment of the riverfront area.
?The Port Authority will be working diligently to attract the interest of national developers over the coming months to bring a signature development to the riverfront,? Runnion said.
The Front Street extension will include a bicycle/pedestrian lane, LED streetlights and storm-water drains compatible with future development plans.
I thought we had a thread on this but I couldn't find it so feel free to merge with other topics.
It's is still beyond my as to why we want to make that nasty drainage ditch of a river a focal point of anything. It's the back alley of KC and should be treated that way.
shinatoo wrote:
It's is still beyond my as to why we want to make that nasty drainage ditch of a river a focal point of anything. It's the back alley of KC and should be treated that way.
Woah woah woah there. I happen to enjoy the river, as do thousands of my neighbors and thousands of communities up and down river. The river has a bad rap for no good reason.
staubio wrote:
Woah woah woah there. I happen to enjoy the river, as do thousands of my neighbors and thousands of communities up and down river. The river has a bad rap for no good reason.
Don't want to go all McLaughlin Group on you but...Wrong, any development along the riverfront is a failure.
shinatoo wrote:
Don't want to go all McLaughlin Group on you but...Wrong, any development along the riverfront is a failure.
Lol. How can you argue with that?
"It's only when you leave Kansas City do you realize truly how great a city it is. ... If you have to go away, go away for a while. You'll be back. And when you come back, bring your ideas and willingness to make Kansas City the best."- Sly James
Certainly not with logic or reason. Therefore, instead I will simply say, nah-nah-nah shinatoo, stick your head in doodoo.
"It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic." -- Ben Franklin
mean wrote:
Certainly not with logic or reason. Therefore, instead I will simply say, nah-nah-nah shinatoo, stick your head in doodoo.
"It's only when you leave Kansas City do you realize truly how great a city it is. ... If you have to go away, go away for a while. You'll be back. And when you come back, bring your ideas and willingness to make Kansas City the best."- Sly James
It seems to me that past lack of river front desireability has more to do with the dominant industrial/RR use of the land as opposed to the aesthetics of the actual river itself.
