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Side note, 303 is the classiest gay bar/restaurant I've ever been to. (and I've traveled extensively.) Gourmet food. Fresh-cut flowers on every table. Huge paintings in both rooms. Copper bar. It's beautiful! I hope they do expand into the old Ragazza spot!

The brick restoration and cleaning of those facades is really impressive.

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:55 pm

Are they really going to have huge stucco patches on the side of this building where the brick fell off or is that just a sealing material that will be covered with brick to match the original?

Looks final to me...but can't tell. If anything they may glue 'thin brick' to it. Doubt it.

^ I’m tired of the poor waiter trope. I worked service industry in college and made $60k/year. part-time. More than I made in my first job out of college. Tips are awesome. Yeah I really depends on where you work, especially the city! I worked in DC as a waiter and at a bar for a few years and I ma...

I think it would be way smarter to just have Broadway flow as it does now. That plaza should just be an extension of the sidewalk in front of Mills (as others have suggested.) If the illustrated plan was implemented that intersection would get crazy and you'd have some drunk person either ramming in...

Passed by yesterday. They have added a blade sign to the corner column. While I do like blade signs, this one look particularly stupid. The inability to hide the conduit doesn't help. Blade signs look pre-modern era to me. This building is very modernist. Looks odd.

normalthings wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 18, 2019 1:32 pm

Ugly as hell

Yeah I wish they made Nordstrom do something more to keep the Plaza look. The worst part is that the garage behind it will be very visible from down the street! I don't think they have realized that yet. Today the theater is taller than 2 stories there and blocks the garage nicely.

That stop should have a Spanish look. Red Tile Roof. Smooth concrete archways holding it up. Think LA Union Station. Why? It's not on the Plaza and there's multiple buildings equally far away without a Spanish look. Because it would be fucking cool! and if done right, beautiful. The Plaza has a sen...

Streetcar Authority Reveals Concepts for New Stops on Main, CC Plaza https://cityscenekc.com/streetcar-authority-reveals-concepts-for-new-stops-on-main-cc-plaza/ Ditch the glass roof design on the stops. I don't understand why anyone would force people to sit in the hot sun on a 100 degree day with...

Developing surface lots should be higher priority. I mean, sure, but if this block got developed, I don't think they need to preserve the parking garage. The issue with the western building is it doesn’t really excel at either of its uses. The parking garage is too compact and the retail is too sho...

It is a nice little mid-century gem. It's a bit like the green brother of the TWA building. If it was cleaned up it would really shine. (and it's short!)

Mildred's gave up on FF because people weren't coming in anymore. I'd guess because the food truck corral took all of the focus away from the food places in the nooks and crannies of the hood. Howard's quit staying open in July because of the same issue. Novel said they normal clientele stays away ...

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 08, 2019 7:48 pm

I feel like it would make sense for cordish to develop the block just south of the p&l building. However, I don’t think they own it right now.

Whatever gets built on that block better be short! They better not block my favorite building on the skyline!

In my mind, West 18th kinda died with the sale of the Monogram building and the exit of YJs, Peggy Noland, etc. I know Birdies is still there and there are a lot of nice shops in that alley, but that little building and all it's funky shops really gave life to the street. Also there is a slight lack...

DC has a height limit so of course rents will be higher. If our CBD had a 110 foot height limit we would have a lot more land filled with buildings rather than parking. Our entire downtown is 200-300 feet taller than what's allowed in the district. It's why tall buildings are outside it. This puts ...

Actually, I think DC's new apartments are much more high-end looking than ours. The K-street corridor is monotonous, yes...but a lot of that has to do with the height restriction and developers trying to squeeze the maximum amount of SF out of their developments. Places like City Center, 14th Street...

What if First Friday's moved around? For example: June at 18th and Vine, July in the Crossroads, August on 39th Street, etc. Moving the event around would (1) reduce the burdens of hosting on a single neighborhood (2) show suburbanites areas of the city they likely wouldn't visit otherwise (3) spre...

Lunetta's website has a page referencing a downtown market in KC. Are they tapped to design the proposed market on the west side of River Market? https://www.lunetta.design/#/downtownmarket/ "Urban infill design for a life in a Kansas city" WTF???? :lol: Is that supposed to be North Kansas City? Wh...

Never thought of that building as 'historic'. Also the Jack Henry connection is not really historic...didn't they move there in the 2000s?

Sounds like a good project either way.