KCRag Forum

Please explain what is is a cost benefit to extending the streetcar to municipality of North Kansas City, a city of 4,500 residents? About 20 percent of those are children; 14 percent are above retirement age. Why would that city spend millions to do it? It's more than $6,600 per resident (just to a...

KC's iconic 'Flashcube' building now open

http://www.metrowiremedia.com/news/kc-i ... g-now-open

The word "iconic" is vastly overused in society now, and certainly in this case.

Historic Kansas City is reporting that the 7th Church of Christ Scientist has been sold to the developer of the former Jack Henry building. https://www.facebook.com/HistoricKC/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARCI4jlxMgnqjPU1YJEJ_IyUGa3tOjMBCFFaaTKrJaJBMqngFisNsoY1URyGuPGsTXINgRXalObKv2vr&hc_ref=ARTFPuEW4iWTXMNDwP...

https://compasskc.kcmo.org/EnerGov_Prod/SelfService/#/plan/dfdbf3a5-4b09-44cf-9b50-1e80a4d8d322?tab=moreinfo "One Nine Vine" is an approximately $68 million, two-phased project generally at the area south of 19th Street and the Paseo. The vision — a catalytic concept for Kansas City’s historically ...

Highway Robbery: How 80 Years of Land Use and Transportation Policy Slowly Strangled a Neighborhood

http://urbanangle.net/highway-robbery-8 ... hood/?s=04

The Great Climate Migration

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

https://www.propublica.org/article/cli ... ook#996123

DColeKC, since you are being very selective about the history of the nuclear option, I am posting this article explaining what happened. Reid only used it because McConnell was holding up all federal judicial appointments under Obama. McConnell's strategy at the time was to prevent Obama from appoin...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/suprem ... 87-n670701

Let the shit-show begin.

flyingember is correct. The fatal flaw in this development was not including more residential above the store buildings, and around the edges. The location was a bad choice for such a retail endeavor since it's limited in how you can add residential around it, and connections to neighborhoods. This ...

I was hoping those blocks would get apartments instead of single family homes.

This is an attractive site politically for incentive use because it's on "the East Side" of Kansas City. Historically, this area doesn't get many incentives (other than recently the Cerner at the Bannister site). The project sits close to several economically-disadvantaged neighborhoods. It doesn't ...

I'm surprised some big bank (like Chase) hasn't swooped in and bought the former Federal Reserve Bank building to stake their flag in the market. Given the right offer, and the endless delays in renovating the building, they could probably have gotten the developer to sell, or convert their plan to ...

I recall hearing that the cost of maintaining and lighting the historic neon roof sign adds to costs as well. That's why I don't think the sign is on all the time.

Glad to see the work on the Water Dept. building. That has been on the Historic Kansas City endangered list the last couple of years.

Nikki Haley. Mike Pence, Greg Abbott for the GOP. Possibly Donald Trump Jr., or Ivana Trump if they aren't convicted of a felony before then. Trump children are not a stretch seeing that a good portion of the GOP is now the Trump wing; For the Dems, Andrew Cuomo, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, or Gret...

It's good to see more infill in that neighborhood.

The Business Journal of Kansas City is reporting that Milhaus will develop the first phase of The Glade. There will be 263 units in multiple buildings in a greater 325-acre mixed-use project to be co-developed by Jim Stowers III and Ryan Cos. The new apartments will sit on the northeast and northwes...

I've never heard about a twin tower.

However, there is enough room between them to have a second tower. There is a double-lane drive between the two structures.

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Downtown KCK grocery store, years in the making, celebrates opening KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A new grocery store opened recently in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, an area previously identified as a food desert. The Merc Co+op, a community-owned cooperative business, opened at North 5th Street and Minneso...