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Maybe HKC can hold a car wash and raise some cash. The insurance question is an interesting one. They may not pay for a faithful reproduction of the church, so is it enough that, say, the exterior of the building is preserved minus the stained glass windows and the inside is a white box? How much do...

The HKC statement is predictably awful. What a garbage organization.

I drove by this morning. The sanctuary roof is open and a crane is holding up an exterior wall.

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:27 pm

chaglang wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:26 pm

But what if it was a mixed use jail with a city target and a grocery store on the ground floor?

This is acceptable

You are True Urbanist, sir.

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:46 pm

I support the jail staying downtown, but I think the KCPS site would be better served with a higher use

But what if it was a mixed use jail with a city target and a grocery store on the ground floor?

Implementing the results of the Midtown Complete Streets Plan would be a start:
https://www.marc.org/Regional-Planning/ ... reets.html

Or maybe their purpose as the mayor's punching bag has been served and local twitter has moved on.

PF was a fine enough place to go if someone else was paying.

Unfortunate that the corner is two blank walls.

Does it have anything to do with the Office space utilizing the gym in the other building? I could see that as the only reasonable justification to it The skywalk connects the office space to the gym (an amenity space). I agree that this is going to pull people into the buildings and keep them off ...

Townhouses and zero lot line houses are not the same thing. A zero lot line house is defined as a house that has exactly one side yard. KCMO allows for both zero lot line houses and townhouses. Though for some reason there is a limit of 9 attached townhouses. Sorry, my original post wasn't clear. Y...

Building code allows you to create a row of townhouses on a single lot if a group of 7-10 criteria are met. Building code is about life safety, so the criteria have to do mostly with fire separation, exiting, etc. KCMO development code places the additional requirement that each townhouse has to be ...

Hopefully there's some coordination with the projects already happening on Main.

It's on the MAX already, which IIRC allows a reduced parking count. I'd be curious to see how the parking counts were arrived at.

The honky tubes are pretty obnoxious. I wonder why the developer would feel like they have to go to so much expense to keep the apartment residents away from the street level? Adding a total of 1100 parking stalls within a 5 minute walk of each other seems like massive overkill at the intersection o...

Seems like it would be good for the developers to organize and present some kind of PR/lobbying campaign. Just hoping that people somehow start to understand the nuances of the local incentives world and stop believing that developers are just a bunch of rich white guys stealing money from schoolkid...

TBF, I didn't think anything had been done to 911 Linwood, so almost any work would put them further along than expected. :lol: So when's it opening? It seems like the exterior work is serious enough that you couldn't have people in the building without substantial amounts of that scope being comple...

^Urban3 does a lot of this kind of mapping. I've seen mapping that shows some eastside neighborhoods outperforming suburbs.

Conversations are happening. AFAIK part of the problem is that everyone knew this was in the works, but developers didn't show up to voice their opinion (or suggest alternatives) until the 11th hour. Yes, I imagine the city could have done better outreach, but the local development community sounds ...

Holy honkytubes! The PIEA holds the SE corner of Troost and Linwood, but that lot is tied to the SW corner. Believe the PIEA would have to break their agreement with that developer to do what is shown here. I'm a little skeptical of any project involving 911 Linwood... that building seems to be an a...