^^So she lives in Mission Woods. Not much different. My remaining comments are the same.
Mission Woods is probably the most exclusive "town" in the metro btw. And nobody knows it's there, tucked into the Mission Hills Country Club. LOLOL
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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 444
- Views: 176083
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 444
- Views: 176083
Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Their founder lives in Mission Hills, and graduated from Harvard. She's not exactly opaque about her goals. This is hilarious. Mission Hills is slowly becoming limousine liberal land, although Trump did carry it by 5 votes. But if so much as a single brown face crosses State Line Road in a jalopy, ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: KC metro growth and migration stats
- Replies: 365
- Views: 185946
Re: KC metro growth and migration stats
Another variable -- the aggressiveness of the local property tax authority. JoCo used to be fairly lax -- but since about 2000, they have been agressive with the appraisals/ valuations of properties. My family home in the area was for years appraised around 300k when it was easily worth twice that, ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Buildings with Activity
- Replies: 609
- Views: 393620
Re: Downtown Buildings with Activity
10th street east of Main used to be the "financial district" of KC -- UMB, Commerce Bank, Kansas City Title & Trust. Sad how it is now almost all empty.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: KC metro growth and migration stats
- Replies: 365
- Views: 185946
Re: KC metro growth and migration stats
Re: states with zero income tax I grew up in KC and paid both MO and KS (and other states) income taxes for years. Part of the complaint is the actual $$$ going out, and I really do believe that I pay less in Florida in total tax outlay than I did anywhere else I ever lived. But another part of the ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Sad...
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1936
Re: Sad...
The renewal shifting east is not because of the highway, other than a lot of people like the freeway access that the nicer areas to the west do not have. The highway was built 30 years ago. Troost has been the division since WWII, and it is not a freeway. It is an organic thing caused because of lo...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Sad...
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1936
Re: Sad...
^ interesting considerations KC has for 80+ years featured those "beautiful single-family neighborhoods" -- I believe we are discussing Brookside and "Country Club"/ Sunset Hill. For the first 40 years of existence, those same 'hoods had an excellent high school (KC Southwest). N...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 444
- Views: 176083
Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
^TL;DR Winning WW2 and not being Soviet or an Empire (UK) has paid dividends for 80 years and running.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 444
- Views: 176083
Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
[The] Great Depression cleaned out a lot of the government building bureaucracy and also provided super cheap labor. Politicians were just doing anything to shorten the soup kitchen line and keep crime down. Had to be a crazy time. Not sure what we’d do now in the same circumstances. I guess just s...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Westwood - 47th Street
- Replies: 11
- Views: 864
Re: Westwood - 47th Street
Westwood is a wealthy and purple-going-blue area of JoCo -- lots of DINKs. Is it any surprise that they want their infrastructure to reflect their preferences? I think NE JoCo will become the Brookside of the next generation. No slight on Brookside, but the city isn't playing ball on keeping up the ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 444
- Views: 176083
Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
^ If by "stops being able to function" you mean massive multi-unit housing production, then the answer is yes, but generally not in socially homogenous countries. The UK famously has this problem. Australia has this problem. Some is rightwing NIMBY-ism, some is leftwing anti-gentrification...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 444
- Views: 176083
Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Actually it is in Kansas and suburban interests to have a healthy KCMO. And the employment areas of KCMO are in good shape compared to peer cities -- the serious crime problems are infrequent downtown or in the immediate Plaza area. Unfortunately KC appears to have largely missed the last 20 years o...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
- Replies: 2536
- Views: 648772
Re: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
More award seats for AA elites on MCI-PHL! Get it while it's hot kids...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
- Replies: 3889
- Views: 696458
Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
I overheard someone in the new terminal complain about the distances and pointed out that Phoenix has golfcart-like vehicles to move disabled or elderly people around, which would probably be welcomed here. At the same time, I don’t think the amount of walking at the new kc terminal is that unusual...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
- Replies: 2536
- Views: 648772
Re: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
Southwest -> Montego Bay is being discontinued after 8/3 Wonder if Jamaica travel is hurting right now. There is a safety advisory for travel to Jamaica. I don't really hear people talk about traveling to Jamaica as much, the DR has kind of taking over for Caribbean all inclusive and Cancun is basi...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: Roeland Park CVS remains vacant 2 years
- Replies: 7
- Views: 619
Re: Roeland Park CVS remains vacant 2 years
This was a Katz drugstore, opened in the 1950s. Converted to Skaggs circa 1970. There is another midcentury Katz at 75th & Metcalf, still operational as CVS. The Roeland Park location was on two levels, and if you needed a quick visit, you could park in nose-in spots along Roe. The lower level h...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Midtown Area Apartment Boom
- Replies: 456
- Views: 180285
Re: Midtown Area Apartment Boom
Fences up at the old Salvation Army building on Linwood set to be torn down. Oh no! I hadn't heard about a plan to demolish. That is a nice structure. Seems like a logical conversion to apartments or maybe a boutique hotel. Nice large windows. A first level that comes to the sidewalk and looks like...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Sports
- Topic: GO CHIEFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 1365
- Views: 313137
Re: GO CHIEFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is till the world cup happens and I think they are using both arrowhead and children's mercy? People will eventually learn the safe way thing to say is KC or Kansas City. Just never say only the state and you are good. Does anybody in KC claim MO or KS anymore? I will say that both states have...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
- Replies: 2536
- Views: 648772
Re: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
The airline codes are legacy codes assigned long ago. Each airline also has a unique, three-digit ticket number prefix. AA is 001, as it was apparently (or possibly alphabetically) the first airline to accept the protocols of the post-war IATA which implemented the prewar Warsaw convention (1929, ra...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
- Replies: 668
- Views: 205050
Re: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
There are no internal voids or expansion tanks in the columns. There is a 500 gallon expansion tank in a conditioned space well above the columns, connected with LONG lengths of 3" copper tubing. It's a static system and the columns being directly exposed to the elements means the expansion ta...