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Also, I'm talking about non-retractable roof-open-air-downtown ballparks. I assume when a retractable roof is open you get a view of the sky and the retracted retractable roof.

I'm talking about the ones that are in downtown.

It seems like the two rules, of any open air downtown ballpark, is that it can't face west because of the sun, and it needs a downtown skyline view beyond its outfield fences. The only exceptions I can find is Denver's facing the Rockies, San Fran's facing the bay and Cincinnati's facing the Ohio ri...

Ballpark was published last May.

That is close to one of rokhok's suggestions last week. A long way from the streetcar. How about replacing the Midtown Market Place with a ballpark? Get rid of two suburban boxes and a sea of parking. Has the Glover plan served it's purpose?

Just finished Paul Goldberger's new book, Ballpark. A nice history of baseball parks, from the wood structures of 19th century, through the concrete donuts of my childhood to the retros of today, and how they related to the American city. Three takeaways: 1. Goldberger is an excellent writer of both...

There was a second building at this location as part of the original bid package for the KCS HQ. Not a twin but about the same size.

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:09 pm

There’s absolutely no reason the Bolling building will be torn down in the foreseeable future. In fact, I’d be willing to say that, of kc’s midcentury modern buildings, it’s one of the least likely to ever be demolished

Unless that's where they put the baseball stadium

An old warehouse, the Pabst & Pendergast, and an old office building, the Fairfax, have both been turned into very nice hotels. The old Federal Reserve and the Scarritt buildings are planned to become hotels. Does anyone, besides the Last Gentleman, think its odd that the greatest, most famous hotel...

A great biography of Jane Jacobs came out in 2016, called Eyes On The Street, written by Robert Kanigel. My favorite part was how she almost single-handedly kept Robert Moses from building a freeway through SoHo.

I had a beer or two at Ebenezer's sometime in the early 1980's. The place had very few customers but was comfortable. All the other storefronts on Delaware were closed and boarded up. I had been to the River Quay as a teenager in the mid 70's and thought this is somewhere I'm coming back to when I'm...

Subcontractors have been released to begin work.