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Metro wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:37 pm Johnny Kaws aka Bridgers has announced they've permanently closed their Westport and Waldo locations. Hopefully the Allerds pull out of Westport completely so we can get some cool places.

What happened?

St Louis is hitting the 1 year under construction mark on their 5 mile extension to Mid America airport. 5+ miles for $98 million. Mostly just unused land that was graded with a few bridge works. I think this can help serve as an example of how to do Waldo on a budget https://www.stltoday.com/news/...

GRID wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:37 pm Wow, impressive. Kind of a cross between navy yard, dc wharf and national harbor here in dc.

same architect as navy yard and battery park city

would there be an option to have a pro sports team in TMobile and look to build a stand alone outstanding class concert venue somewhere within the downtown area? I Sure, there's always an option for anything. But, it costs money. A new arena in the US is going to cost over $1 billion. Oklahoma City...

Cratedigger wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:29 pm Looks phenomenal

400 units to break ground at end of season

What more transportation? I suspect they don’t mean bus or rail

St Louis is hitting the 1 year under construction mark on their 5 mile extension to Mid America airport. 5+ miles for $98 million. Mostly just unused land that was graded with a few bridge works. I think this can help serve as an example of how to do Waldo on a budget https://www.stltoday.com/news/l...

Read that MetroLink/Bright Line will partner to increase commuter frequencies into LA. Potential to extend bright line to Union Station later

So just using numbers from 2024, you would add 41 (actually typically more including preseason and playoff games). Lets round to 70 for a high-performing peer and 60 for a low-performing arena in games + concerts. KC: 43 concerts, 26 Big 12 games and KC is already about tied with an NBA or NHL city...

Early discussions of a convention center expansion, remodel, and/or rebuild. Kansas City is realistically looking at a major overhaul of Bartle and mid-life renovation of T-Mobile Center. Mayor wants to renovate. Bartle Hall is 50 year old and the expansion turned 30 this year. Will be 60 and 40 yea...

EDIT: Found this data base that the fan blog seems to pull from. Scroll through 2024 so far and youll see the only "break" T-Mobile Center has had from hosting concerts was for basketball season. https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/t-mobile-center-b0e7246f-df5e-4257-b605-b478dfd15cd5?pa...

If it were only that easy. Kansas City isn’t an anchor market when it comes to touring acts. They route through and if a date they want isn’t available they’ve got other choices and will simply skip the market. Toss in needing to work around a pro team schedule and you’d 100% lose several concert d...

$500m 15 years ago and it’s fairly bare bones on the interior compared to a MLB or NFL stadium. The Cathedral is less than the $1b the Royals have said they will spend on the Royals stadium and it's much, much larger, over twice the capacity. The current design (what little we've seen from it) just...

If they had a 50-100% higher budget I’m certain they’d love to The bottom one cost around $500m and that is for a bigger football stadium. Others are similar. It doesn’t cost that much more to make something visually appealing, it just takes some care to make something that will last instead of jus...

If they had a 50-100% higher budget I’m certain they’d love to

A concourse.

B concourse.

Odd vs even based on side

TheUrbanRoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:07 pm What good is this if it's up at the airport. Who cares if we even get it at that point.

I’m not really sure if this is a use case that should be in the main core of the city

USOPC Gymnastics Training Center KCI Pitched near KCI. Article in the business journal isn’t showing for me anymore. TLDR is KC a candidate based on RFP responses. Site to include 200 room hotel, training centers, kitchens, school, small performance hall, etc.

Better fit for Berkley than KCI imho

That's still going on? There were volleyball tournaments in town last time we were there back in Feb. Most people walking downtown and probably half the people going through KCI while we did were there for that. Seems like a huge event. Must be multiple events. There are. This week is collegiate cl...

Will the volleyball tournaments ever end? It's nice to see people traversing through the crossroads on foot. A nice departure from the general ghost town vibes Im normally experiencing. It does seem we have become somewhat of a youth/college sports tournament destination, wouldn't be my first pick,...