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Lol

Does anyone know what modot thinks? Are they onboard or just kind of like humoring us?

If it happens, it'll be east village. The land is effectively banked and all the key people are involved there already.

The only neighborhood that wouldn't face extensive local opposition too.

Haven't seen any activity for quite some time.

I wouldn't give up Grand for this development though. I wish I understood more why they couldn't get financing to do w+r plus spec. I think that would go a long ways towards the frustrations here. The project is fine though, as long as they address the street level concerns. Long past so that we com...

It's amazing to me that Truman Road (facing a freeway trench) will eventually be lined with new buildings from Wyandotte to Oak, and we can't get entire blocks along Grand redeveloped. I hope this might change as the Embassy Suites in the old Fed comes online along with the Wyndham at the Scarritt....

If they were serious about a downtown stadium, the preferred parcel would have been land-banked. 1. I’ve heard from close sources that this is where the new ownership group would like to go. They already have about 50% of the land under their control(City + UMB). 2. I’d rather see this get land ban...

From the press conference it sounds like this group will be very open to downtown. Was nice to hear Sherman talk about surrounding urban development too and not just plopping a stadium down somewhere.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:33 pm

The complete ownership group for the royals has some names you'd think would also push for a downtown park including the JE Dunn's, UMB folks,

I wonder if je dunn has thoughts on east village?

I wonder if they provided money for the buy and got some equity in the deal and he's their rep, or if it's individual.

Agreed

Great to crawl over that bar.

The problem with our mayoral system is that most of your power is standing for something and advocating for things. What does he want to do?

Unlikely McClatchy will even exist at the end of 2020.

So far I've seen no leadership from Lucas. He seems like a classic example of please tell me where my people are going so I can lead them. I still can't even tell what he wants to do?

I'm hopeful that light and landscaping will help some of the more drab parts.

The problem is that the sea of parking will just expand and probably stop future development around the area.

It's interesting jedunn won the bid too. It'll be interesting who wins the competitive bids.

I wish we didn't have to have a monstrosity of a garage, but it is what it is. I hope it's been designed for present and future transit.

It's an irresistible headline for national news, but it's almost impossible for anyone not familiar with Kansas City to understand.

They're going to try to name the airport after him now, aren't they?