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I have no idea how Areavibes calculates their crime rating. SHP, Valentine, and Southmoreland were all F's. Somehow, the Country Club Plaza was an A+. I find that a little suspicious. Most neighborhoods don't seem to be listed at all. I would take it with a grain of salt. https://www.areavibes.com/...

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:49 pm

ToDactivist wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:55 am

Bargain Mansions is now prime time HGTV and copious shots of KC lifestyles and neighborhoods throughout the shows. Nice.

Bastardizing historic homes all over Kansas City. Yeah!!!!!

Versus tearing them down?

The building wasn't in good shape, imho ugly, and didn't have a great ground floor. Not much worth fighting for. Big fight was on making sure it did not become surface parking. Happy to say that this will become a grassy lot. Cause we need more fenced off grassy lots DT?! And personally, I don’t ca...

Suppose you owned a 40 car lot where they want to build a baseball stadium? You just circled back around to the point made on eminent domain Who's point and what was the point? Is 2nd base involved? That cities have a much harder time paying for land to take it for development in recent years.

Property owners have the right to NOT build on their land. Suppose you owned a 40 car lot where they want to build a baseball stadium? You just circled back around to the point already made on eminent domain The Plaza is a great example of this in an earlier era, the original development didn’t bui...

I have no idea how Areavibes calculates their crime rating. SHP, Valentine, and Southmoreland were all F's. Somehow, the Country Club Plaza was an A+. I find that a little suspicious. Most neighborhoods don't seem to be listed at all. I would take it with a grain of salt. https://www.areavibes.com/...

The streetcar has a tax on paid parking lots but not empty lots.

So the city deems parking to be a productive for the purpose of bringing in income.

The worst kind of hypocrisy took place about 70 years ago, when complete neighborhoods were destroyed, so downtown office worker's auto commutes could be shortened, and they sold it as the revitalization of our downtowns. I've always thought the primary reason people get interested in downtowns is ...

Updated announcement coming ASAP. Any hints? Soon. Lord Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does THIS happen in the move? Col. Sandurz: NOW. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now. Lord Dark Helmet: Go back to then! Col. Sandurz: What? Lord Dark Helmet...

I'm not sure if any organization does a "Most Enhanced Award" for historic redevelopment projects in KC, but if this building is overhauled and made to look like it did in the 19th Century, then it would surely win the award. Same goes for the West Bottoms Flats and numerous other projects in the C...

In today's world, using eminent domain for private development is lengthy, costly, unpopular and very unlikely. The unpopularity of eminent domain is because of all the functioning neighborhoods destroyed by it's use. In today's world we could use it to help repair the damage of those misguided tim...

Makes sense, all of this information & perspectives. I think if we want to talk about taller buildings and increased opportunity for density we should continue to look at the downtown core. So many surface lots just waiting for development, including the recently under demolition ok’d KCPS building...

There are other cities that place new, taller buildings in older, historic districts. Portland has them in the Old Town and Pearl District for example. Sure, you probably don't want to put a 25-30 story building there. I agree it will probably get cut down to 9-10 stories. The loop didn’t have a 25...

Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 25, 2020 2:13 pm

I made the assumption that it is Mac based on the fact that they have a solid portfolio in this area

Past performance is not indicative of future results

It looks like the actual design is coming early next year. If this is correct, the names given above can't win the bid for a few more months https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2020/08/14/buck-oneil-bridge-replacement-rfp-coming-soon.html MoDOT representatives this week completed interviews ...

Woah that new terminal looks huge, that scale really puts it in perspective. Thanks for posting! It's 98% the size of A + B + C combined. Old: about 1.1 million square feet New: ~1,086,000 sq ft What I find interesting is I didn't realize how close parking will be to the tower. Also can see how lea...

There are other cities that place new, taller buildings in older, historic districts. Portland has them in the Old Town and Pearl District for example. Sure, you probably don't want to put a 25-30 story building there. I agree it will probably get cut down to 9-10 stories. The loop didn’t have a 25...

So that ugly parking lot could be a city development TOD RFP if they wanted? So the idea is you have to be able to connect a property to an active rail line to maintain the rights of a railbanked row. The Country Club ROW abuts the Union Pacific line that goes through Swope, they can connect to thi...

It is great to see the busier stops will be upgraded to light rail style. I am also loving the double-tracked station at UMKC. My only gripe is the parking lot next to the Plaza station. I remember hearing that no structures are allowed to be constructed in the KCATA owned Country Club Route parcel...

I bet this is the presentation from the meeting. There's some good details in it.

https://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uplo ... _FINAL.pdf