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AlbertHammond wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:46 pm Sadness. Vision Metcalf? Mixed use?

"Mixed Use" I guess they're calling it mixed use because they threw some apartments over in the back corner

Its on page 64 of their CIP: https://www.olatheks.org/home/showdocument?id=11856 I agree, that's a tough design squeezing between Garmin and the Railroad. Wow, $13 million to alleviate "traffic" for less than 30 minutes per day. That just seems like a reckless use of taxpayer money. On to...

Anyone have detailed information (timeline), drawings, etc regarding new automobile access to the Garmin campus from the north? I'm hearing an access road will join/give access from Old Hwy 56/Church St (around the existing concrete facility), underneath I-35 and connect up with the existing Mahaff...

Garmin probably wants to get into the car dashboard business to replace the OEM units. The OEM car units are pretty much the only GPS devices left where you still see companies charging exorbitant prices to upgrade the maps. I remember prior to 3 to 5 years ago it was somewhat pricey to get map upg...

How so? What's the cultural difference between FitBit and Garmin? Well, Fitbit is located in downtown San Francisco versus Garmin's exurban Olathe greenfield campus, for one. I noticed recently that the new section of Mahaffie Circle behind the campus has been renamed to Garmin Way. This isn't refl...

I know this isn't a recent development, but I was diving into the dark depths of Youtube and I found this video from 1991 that has footage of the previous building that was on 20th and main (between Main and the Walnut viaduct). Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG1YSwNtnes#t=3m50s ...

Wtf? This is crap Apparently retail was looked into but it "would take up a full half of three levels of the 4.5 level parking garage, reducing the parking count by over 26%" :roll: I guess the giant library garage kitty-corner to this site and the eight-level garage directly across the s...

FangKC wrote:

The building you circled here was already demolished a few months back. I do not know what they're currently doing to that site, but there are construction workers there every day.

It doesn't look to me like there will be any retail: http://cityclerk.kcmo.org/liveweb/Docum ... 4jnQ%3d%3d

This is at their current campus, which is 151st and Ridgeview.