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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Buildings with Activity
- Replies: 609
- Views: 393513
Re: Downtown Buildings with Activity
Sounds like Spokes will be moving The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday approved a 10-year, 80% property tax abatement and redevelopment contract for a 57-apartment renovation of the Kansas City Title and Trust Building at 929 Walnut St. The development team, Exact Archit...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:22 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
- Replies: 478
- Views: 309229
Re: Fantasy Retrofits: Barney Allis Plaza
They need to have a fountain. I've always liked the long cascading fountain along 12th Street.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8436
- Views: 8170647
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
A look at the recent history of sports stadium financing and Jackson County's Question 1 ... Financial experts argue that teams stay even without taxpayer money. There are approximately 118 professional sports stadiums in the U.S. About 59% of sports facility referendums don't include a sales tax c...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: KC metro growth and migration stats
- Replies: 365
- Views: 185924
Re: KC metro growth and migration stats
State taxing policies always come down to personal situations, income levels, and whether you are working or retired. https://www.bankrate.com/taxes/state-with-no-income-tax-better-or-worse/ There are winners and losers in each tax blend. While some benefit from no state income tax, it often comes a...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Buildings with Activity
- Replies: 609
- Views: 393513
Re: Downtown Buildings with Activity
929 Walnut being renovated by Exact. What was the outcome of LCRA this week? A team of Exact Architects and MR Capital Advisors wins incentive approval for an $11.1 million conversion of a historic downtown building that was the city's first to be built specifically for storing real estate records....
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Troost Village
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15532
Re: Troost Village
Developer in $162M Troost Village plan files for bankruptcy protection during loan dispute ... But Midtown Redevelopment Partners has yet to turn those renderings into reality. Instead, financial disputes have led to liens and lawsuits, most recently resulting in a bankruptcy filing by Troost Villa...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Alternative Energy
- Replies: 63
- Views: 22199
Re: Alternative Energy
Stadler’s hydrogen-powered train FLIRT H2 achieves a new Guinness World Records title Stadler is proud to announce that the FLIRT H2 has been entered into the Guinness World Records database for the longest distance of 1,741.7 miles (2,803 kilometers) achieved by a pilot hydrogen fuel cell electric...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Affordable Housing
- Replies: 402
- Views: 113583
Re: Affordable Housing
The Guadalupe Center is building new affordable housing on its campus at Truman and Hardesty (the former Saint Paul's School of Theology). Guadalupe Centers Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing Initiative Guadalupe Centers Inc.(GCI) recently broke ground on a new affordable housing initiative, named ...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Suburban sprawl is a Ponzi scheme
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10046
Re: Suburban sprawl is a Ponzi scheme
UrbanLab KC @urbanlab_kc This really should be a wake up call that it’s time to discourage and stop sprawl. We need to build upon existing infrastructure going forward, incentivizing development that makes more responsible use of land. We need economic and environmentally sustainable growth. https:...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: KC metro growth and migration stats
- Replies: 365
- Views: 185924
Re: KC metro growth and migration stats
We need to add population in places where infrastructure is already in place, otherwise, we are dooming future residents to higher costs per resident than other denser cities. Continuing the sprawl on undeveloped land is not in the interest of KCMO. UrbanLab KC @urbanlab_kc Efforts are already being...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Urban Living
- Topic: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 595
Re: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
(I don’t count the Stray Cat, because I’ve visited basements with a larger projector setup) Not sure how you can't count Stray Cat. Exhibition has changed so much since the pandemic. By this definition there's no theater anywhere in the urban core other than B&B. There is also a movie theater a...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Urban Living
- Topic: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 595
Re: Why is the Crossroads an “Arts” District?
So what makes the Crossroads an “Arts” district? The Crossroads used to be mostly a warehouse district containing a variety of businesses including Film Row, which were a bunch of buildings housing regional film distribution and exhibition offices for big Hollywood studios. People who owned and ope...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
- Replies: 150
- Views: 29475
Re: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
It's been under state control for more than 80 years. KC is now the only city in the USA under state control. There isn't any justification for KCPD being under state control. Kansas City's elected leadership has no say about hiring or firing the police chief, how the police leadership sets policy, ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
- Replies: 150
- Views: 29475
Re: Restoration of City Control Over KCPD
Some of the highest crime rates are in so-called red states. It's not just as easy as what party is in control. New York State and New York City have among the lowest crime rates in the country, and lower than many so-called "red" states. More often it has more to do with the poverty rate,...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:21 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Parade Park
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1216
Re: Parade Park
HUD takes over and installs a Virginia firm to manage Kansas City's troubled Parade Park Homes [quote ]After decades of neglect and decay amid turmoil among the management of one of the country’s oldest Black-owned housing cooperatives, Parade Park Homes has been taken under federal control. ... Th...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Tracks 215 Project
- Replies: 276
- Views: 121646
Re: Tracks 215 Project
Thanks for all the photos today Chris. How about swinging over to Beacon Hill and updating us on new houses on Forest Avenue? https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0795359,-94.5688881,484a,35y,90h/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu And new houses in the Plaza Heights neighborhood north of 45th Street to Corbin Terra...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Condos near Federal Reserve
- Replies: 123
- Views: 28597
Re: Condos near Federal Reserve
I can't remember. Are they also tearing down that garage on 31st and Baltimore?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 262433
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
That structure was built in 1910 as the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company Building. The downtown airport wasn't built until 1927.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Scene
- Topic: wtf is happening to w. 39th?!
- Replies: 596
- Views: 182352
Re: wtf is happening to w. 39th?!
Build more dense apartments along Southwest Trafficway south of Penn Valley Community College.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: West Bottoms Redevelopment
- Replies: 811
- Views: 262433
Re: West Bottoms Redevelopment
Essentially, with a gutted Weld Building, a developer is getting a multi-story concrete and steel frame already constructed. Put a new facade on it. It's also a structure that would have interesting views from the upper floors.