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by herrfrank
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Replies: 433
Views: 162410

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.
by herrfrank
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:48 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Replies: 433
Views: 162410

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...
by herrfrank
Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Kansas Suburbs
Topic: Westwood - 47th Street
Replies: 11
Views: 838

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 ...
by herrfrank
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Replies: 433
Views: 162410

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...
by herrfrank
Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Replies: 433
Views: 162410

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...
by herrfrank
Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:14 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
Replies: 2528
Views: 616870

Re: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments

More award seats for AA elites on MCI-PHL! Get it while it's hot kids...
by herrfrank
Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:21 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3880
Views: 661867

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...
by herrfrank
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
Replies: 2528
Views: 616870

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...
by herrfrank
Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: Kansas Suburbs
Topic: Roeland Park CVS remains vacant 2 years
Replies: 7
Views: 597

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...
by herrfrank
Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:20 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Midtown Area Apartment Boom
Replies: 454
Views: 169858

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...
by herrfrank
Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:50 pm
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: GO CHIEFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Replies: 1365
Views: 304089

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...
by herrfrank
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments
Replies: 2528
Views: 616870

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...
by herrfrank
Sun Jan 14, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
Replies: 668
Views: 194478

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...
by herrfrank
Sun Jan 14, 2024 1:21 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
Replies: 668
Views: 194478

Re: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)

After more review, I think as long as the expansion "tanks" are still working, meaning some internally available voids, the freeze compaction risk to structural integrity is low. Of course, I make no guarantees. I would be concerned about Gillum's participation in the built structure, just...
by herrfrank
Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:48 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)
Replies: 668
Views: 194478

Re: OFFICIAL - Wallstreet Tower (formerly US Bank Tower)

OMG Harry Weese would be turning in his grave. I find it hard to believe that the liquid will freeze solid at -13 (maybe just turn slushy), because KC does have -20 every 10 years or so. I guess we will see. Not all liquids expand the same as water as well. I assume this is a suspension of some kind...
by herrfrank
Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Capping the Loop
Replies: 2567
Views: 429513

Re: Capping the Loop

* I admire idealism as much as the next guy, but this NYT writer really let loose here.

Cities need to come together organically. Artificial posturing toward "activity-rich neighborhoods" usually ends badly. Think of the Knoxville Worlds Fair. Or the Hudson Yards debacle in NYC.
by herrfrank
Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:18 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: General Amtrak Discussion
Replies: 361
Views: 194096

Re: General Amtrak Discussion

Brightline is double tracked I think all the way from Cocoa Beach to Miami -- and there is some freight activity on that line (Florida East Coast Railroad - the original Henry M. Flagler line). The freight tends to run at night, usually it's mixed freight with mostly gravel/ coquina stone going nort...
by herrfrank
Wed Dec 20, 2023 11:32 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Downtown Buildings with Activity
Replies: 590
Views: 373952

Re: Downtown Buildings with Activity

The Hampton inn at 8th and Walnut that closed after a flood during COVID is finally reopen Man, that took forever. Would love to know the backstory and details, if anyone here knows the deal. I know the realtor who handled the sale of 801 Walnut about 15 years ago, as well as the architects of reco...
by herrfrank
Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:24 am
Forum: Kansas Suburbs
Topic: Former Kmart some movement
Replies: 10
Views: 10199

Re: Former Kmart some movement

This K-Mart site, which opened circa 1970, and a couple other K-Marts (the northland I-29 site, for example) were vacant for about as long as they were open. My last visit was 1986 to buy a footlocker for books to take to college. I think it closed around 1995, nearly 30 years ago. 30 years of prime...
by herrfrank
Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: New downtown on street parking rolloout
Replies: 37
Views: 40130

Re: New downtown on street parking rolloout

^This is LAZ parking Dave? As in Alan and Marcia Lazowski of Hartford? My old neighbors LOL.
They're also the company that privatized Chicago's parking. Get ready for costs to go up :')