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Looks like grading work has started at Armour and Troost.

horizons82 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:27 pm

Wasn’t she the one who made incredibly callous comments when a bicyclist was killed last year?

This is the quote you're thinking of:

"...Unfortunately people die in this city every day and we just have to make sure that we’re keeping everything in perspective."

D 10th & Baltimore is back open to traffic now. Is the painting confusing or otherwise a hindrance to traffic? I haven't seen them in person yet but I feel like that's actually a legit concern to have on an active street. Doesn't all street marking usually have to adhere to some traffic safety code...

The Missouri Legislature has limited the amount of control that municipalities have over placement of certain utilities, so KCMO may actually not have much say in what's happening.

How much is the city still paying for P&L bonds?

DaveKCMO wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:58 pm

Supposedly these lights will now be turned off until they're complete.

If nothing else works, these are very, very likely 0-10 dimmable.

The southern section of the Gillham cycletrack is really nice. Anecdatally, it's better used than the Armour lanes.

Whatever ends up getting build on this land will almost certainly be larger and have better design than the old building. I wish I had your confidence! :lol: Taller, denser, and a ground level that isn't composed of parking garage entries/blank walls/mechanical louvers. That's the bar for me. Basic...

The twisty tower is vaporware. It's hard to see anyone building a spec office building, especially now. With the exception of 17th and Walnut and Arterra, new residential development has been short and ugly. 17th and Walnut and Arterra included, the street presence of new residential development has...

Wasn't a huge fan of the building, but damn. Given the generally crappy level of new developments in the GDAP, it's hard to believe that whatever replaces it will be much better.

I sort of assumed that the permanent location of this is in Trump's imagination.

We may have attended the same meeting. It was a shitshow, and I was surprised that the HPNA board didn't even try to keep people civil. My hunch is that is the project was a block north, everyone opposed to the project would be in favor of it. All that said, the developer is probably his own worst e...

Qualifying what I said with "all" and "solely" distorted my point considerably. If we are talking about benefits to longtime residents coming in the form of new businesses (which is the oft-cited benefits of redevelopment), then there has to be some relevance. I'd be very surprised if this particula...

They have, which is both bad and good. Good for owners, bad for renters. In south Beacon Hill and in Mount Hope moderate size 2 floor houses that are complete gut jobs(basically paying for the lot, hole in ground, and frame if it is not completely termite eaten) are going for more than 90K. Little ...

Sardine tins have rounded corners.

Genuinely surprised how fast the Parks Department started switching out the JC Nichols Blvd signs, especially given the fact that there are still MLK Blvd signs up on some places on the Paseo.

A couple of developers I've talked to describe Westport Terrace as a zombie project - dead but still stumbling forward.

That's a great building. It would be cool to see that leased, as well as the buildings immediately to the south. That corner is much quieter than it was a few years ago, so maybe there's a chance.

I think that might be breaking the no-text rule of flag design Aside from Chicago, I probably can't remember a single city flag. I think some text is fine. The St. Louis flag is probably just as well known as Chicago to Midwesterners. Besides STL, Chicago and KC, I know no other city flags in the U...

yeah, this one popped up again out of nowhere. pretty good project but their public engagement is really, really poor. I can't imagine them trying for the zoning change before reopening public dialogue is going to be well received. seems like even a moderately savvy development team could get this o...