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Who makes the call and what’s the time line? How awful is this?

Sounds like your mad cause you’ve never been invited to one of these roof top pool parties. How is this helpful to any discussion? It's just as helpful as calling the place I live a "stick built, fake exterior roof top pool private party zone crap" and acting like the 300+ million dollars invested ...

Literally not possible? Ten years ago I would never have imagined the abundance stick built-fake exterior-roof top pool-private party zone crap now beginning to blight our downtown. This stuff works in the suburbs because the suburbs don't have anything else, but not in our downtown. I'm literally d...

The kids grew bored in the suburban neighborhoods they were raised in, so they're moving downtown and bringing the damn suburbs with them. Huh? It used to be that downtown apartment development was completely different than anything else in the metro. The bottom line was important but the goal was ...

The kids grew bored in the suburban neighborhoods they were raised in, so they're moving downtown and bringing the damn suburbs with them.

Port KC is studying the wharf as we speak They will need to improve access. The old Grand Ave viaduct had an exit ramp to the wharf that still partially exists. They should include a catfish restaurant in their plans that serves very cold beer. https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A106...

Municipal Wharf at Main Street (location is where the Main Street pedestrian bridge and lookout is now) https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1129416,-94.5847576,258a,35y,180h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en https://i.imgur.com/vp16AAg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3kNuHAS.gif These are both great pictures I missed seeing...

On Flush Creek?

Thanks Fang for the info. But I'm trying to imagine what Paris would look like today if the French had been following your advice for the last thousand years.

Paris has a left bank and a right bank, why shouldn't Kansas City? Hell, Little Rock has development on both it's left and right banks. Do the Seine and the Arkansas not have flood plains?

Have developers ever complained about affordable housing requirements outside of the urban core? I understood the concern to be more about damaging downtown housing development.

Thanks. My question is are the affordable housing requirements intended for the entire city? I see the need more in downtown developments than elsewhere.

“Mr. and Mrs. Bridge” was a Ward Parkway film, “Kansas City” an 18th and Vine film. Different worlds different movies.

I think Altman’s film was a tough valentine to his hometown. How can a city with such a rich black musical heritage still have as strict a dividing line as Troost?

Just watched Robert Altman's "Kansas City" for the first time since it came out 25 years ago. Wonderful KC jazz highlighted by the Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins characters playing dueling saxophones. Historical interior and exterior scenes of the original Ship bar when it was north of City Hall. ...

We have 60 days to convince the council to legalize building density. What is the plan? You need to convince a city council, that has five black members, that white suburban developers know what's best for the inner city. Then you need to convince them, that the real estate profession is much less ...

The grandchildren of the white flight have grown tired of the suburbs and are back in town wanting to dictate terms. But the grandchildren of those left behind aren't cooperating. Epic American story in the making.

Those 3 are target cities, not peers. Those 3 are much much stronger real estate markets and growing faster. 2 are far larger players in general. All 3 have much more national investment, construction, and movement. For reference, I believe Nashville's current single day condo sales record is $80 m...

Maybe I missed something along the way, but I’d like to know what you all think the solution to the over gentrification of the cores of cities actually is? If inclusionary zoning is bad, then by what alternative mechanism do we ensure there will still be a place for low income people in our downtow...

From Kevin Collison's 1/18 column referencing a letter in support of the legislation: "Kansas City is behind the curve when it comes to implementing affordable housing policy," the letters continue, adding several peer cities including Minneapolis, Nashville and Denver have set-aside policies for a...

To me a big city rowhouse has no side yards, a porch in front without a yard and an ally behind. Between would be fire walls that would be partly owned by the connected houses. Would this even be allowed today with current building codes?