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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: NYC Migrants Are Being Welcomed by Kansas City’s Mayor to Fill Jobs
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1265
Re: NYC Migrants Are Being Welcomed by Kansas City’s Mayor to Fill Jobs
There are more people outside of the workforce (not working) than available to work, as compared to almost any year in the modern workforce era (since women joined the workforce en masse in the 1970s). The topline unemployment rate does not reflect this, a well-known problem to labor economists. The...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Close.City - Travel Time Map
- Replies: 4
- Views: 194
Re: Close.City - Travel Time Map
I love how the Indian HIlls Country Club is basically a walk-centric zone. Kind of ironic, but it's true how convenient everything in the Village is to that part of Mission Hills.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Regional Transit Coordination
- Replies: 404
- Views: 100109
Re: Regional Transit Coordination
There becomes a very real risk that the continued overloaded sales taxes will start to stifle the city economy. We have to find a new way to fund initiatives without carry on with the "Just add a sales tax!". Downtown KCMO has something like a 13% sales tax now. And that applies to "...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: OFFICIAL: H&R Block HQ
- Replies: 405
- Views: 88860
Re: OFFICIAL: H&R Block HQ
*The Bloch brothers are both dead. Richard died a long time ago, the trustees of his wife Annette (also deceased) are selling the fancy apartment on the Plaza. They mostly lived in the Palm Springs area, and I assume their heirs will continue there. Henry's wife pre-deceased him. He continued to liv...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
- Replies: 3920
- Views: 805380
Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
^I am slightly disappointed, although I do think I'll have access through one of my credit cards. I had hoped AA would open an Admirals Club, as the location appeared to be almost designed for them (and was an additional build-out, not in the first blueprints). I believe this indicates that British ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 484
- Views: 222376
Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
^^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
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
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
- Replies: 484
- Views: 222376
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: 200210
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: 610
- Views: 460852
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: 200210
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: 2409
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: 2409
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: 484
- Views: 222376
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: 484
- Views: 222376
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: 966
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: 484
- Views: 222376
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: 484
- Views: 222376
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: 2543
- Views: 757294
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: 3920
- Views: 805380
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: 2543
- Views: 757294
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...