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FWIW, sporting designed their stadium with expansion in mind. They can add 8k seats to the east end of the stadium alone.

Here’s a star article from a few years back on it:

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mls/sp ... 46573.html

I think that's the goal, given the questionable financials and terrible design.

The Venn diagram of people who can afford that for a one bedroom and who are willing to accept the finishes shown, in the name of supposedly being green, seems exceptionally small in KC.

Good god.

So which gave us a poor design in this situation? I mean without turning this into a red string mess of interconnections, the main culprit is the city parking requirements and in a distant second place building code egress and fire protection. The parking garage ties into what financiers are dictat...

People have every right to complain, but you’ve got to ground it in the realities of A) what the building code dictates; B) what the market/financiers dictate; C) what the required program is; and arguably most importantly D) What the city mandates. People should push developers to be better. The be...

Fantastic photos fang, thanks. Would love to see the East side repopulated with homes like those.

In my view it’s a case of “you get what you paid for.” And planned for. The city could have been more robust in its planning for the hotel, but it sat around and had no gameplan when a developer stepped up. The city could have land banked an easier site to develop. They could have modified parking r...

I'll take a corner retail space and what the residence inn did at ground level 100 times over what Loews did. Is it perfect? no. Not being unreasonable to ask for better than what Loews gave us. But what in the hell are you talking about? The entire residence inn frontage is a Porte Cochere! I’ve a...

I think we're being too cute by half pretending that this: https://goo.gl/maps/XCNweJs8sQKyVMj29 is an exceptionally better pedestrian experience than what you're getting one block west. This block has some glazing from the lobby & tenant which makes it marginally better. Even then, that glazing is ...

I guess I don’t get the fixation on the docks. They take up far less frontage than the garage or even the porte cochere. If you’re afraid of constant deliveries, that seems like more a city ordinance that needs to happen than some fault of the developer or the design team. Honestly as all of downtow...

Private alley: as TLG and normal things mentioned, grading doesn’t work if the alley is running E-W. If you’re going to run it N-S then you’re looking at intensive earthwork. IIRC most of what was there was rocky bluff, making it tougher to carve out than most. Dock along Truman: I don’t know KC’s l...

Are we totally forgetting the honkey tube, too? I know it's a convention hotel, but the ground-level experience leaves so much to be desired... especially facing the Crossroads (where it sits). I'm sure it will be successful, just like the Downtown Marriott that precedes it. See I’m with TLG on thi...

It's more than reasonable to expect a new article every day for the price he's charging. Heck $6/month gets you multiple new articles per day with the Shawnee Mission Post. Not every article has to be a breaking story. Curbed Chicago already does a good mix of this with realty pieces; maps; guides; ...

Thanks for all the pics Dave! Agreed about being impressed with how MGE is already looking. Shaping up to be one of the more impressive remodels in KC.

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Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:04 am

Yes, but Halls wouldn't be in a precarious position.

Apple on the other hand...

Good lord dude, reread the post. I said precarious proposition not position, but thanks for the semantics.

This, the garage at 47th & Penn, and the old halls are about the only places in the bowl I think you could demo and redevelop without all hell breaking loose. And even then Halls is probably a precarious proposition. Halls isn't on the Plaza. They closed that store in 2014. Hence why I said the old...

Bulldoze the entire center block with the Starbucks and rebuild it. It’s almost entirely parking on the most valuable piece of Plaza real estate This, the garage at 47th & Penn, and the old halls are about the only places in the bowl I think you could demo and redevelop without all hell breaking lo...

That BM would upload drawings that WR hadn’t approved (as seems to be the case) is very strange. Wondering if WR had approved something and then backed up when the drawings were not received favorably. ^Agreed. This has all the marks of something fairly far along that they pulled after how things h...

Here’s the story Fang was talking about: https://www.kmbc.com/article/new-plan-for-downtown-south-loop-deck-could-reduce-cost-by-millions-of-dollars-kansas-city-interstate-670-missouri/30260955 It looks great, with one major caveat. Why are they so fixated on eliminating walnut over the highway? I d...

That said, part of the parking issue is because it's such a tight space. Grand has 2 full city blocks available for such a development and either one would have allowed a garage to be spread out over a broader area with room for retail at the ground level. This is not true. There’s no design constr...