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- Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:25 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Waddell & Reed - 14th & Baltimore
- Replies: 764
- Views: 132027
Re: Companies moving downtown
The redevelopment of this block is crucial to assure continuity between the new hotel and P&L district. If you were alone, at 11PM; would you consider walking down Baltimore Avenue from P&L to the hotel? The fact the IBM building is abandoned -- with a crappy streetscape? Put a belgian in the boiler...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:37 pm
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: Three Light
- Replies: 1428
- Views: 285008
Re: Three Light
Terrific! Finally! Another building makes the magical 350' above-street-level mark!!
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 10:15 am
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)
- Replies: 601
- Views: 141230
Re: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)
Well, there you have it. A new 25 story building. Hopefully the building looks nice. Theresa Loar's comments grate on the nerves. Is she always so annoyingly emotional??? Christ, reading her comments made me cringe as I read it in NY. Impressive "Cringe range". The current renderings look a little s...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:57 am
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)
- Replies: 601
- Views: 141230
Re: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)
This is good news, cloaked in a sarcastic narrative: The developer is trying to play the squeeze game -- and has capitulated. The fact the developer capitulated suggests there is sufficient market value in a downtown development -- "the incentive juice is not worth the squeeze." I am a huge proponen...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:19 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Hyperloop between KC and STL
- Replies: 87
- Views: 21410
Re: Hyperloop between KC and STL
Should there be any motivation for KC-land; skip this Hyper-crap. Substantive discussion should involve regional rail transport and evolution of light or heavy-ish rail within the urban area. I would not be madness to begin discussions of a rail link between the new airport, Northland, and the cente...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:26 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Hyperloop between KC and STL
- Replies: 87
- Views: 21410
Re: Hyperloop between KC and STL
Guys, don't put a gram of faith on this hare-brained scheme. The operative word on "Hyperloop" is "Hype". Government can't put higher-speed conventional trains on existing tracks, let alone new tracks. Building a tube that's evacuated between STL and KC is beyond pipe dream. When the Kansas City Sta...
- Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:41 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Companies moving downtown
- Replies: 277
- Views: 57587
Re: Companies moving downtown
For 65 million in incentives, Cincinnati got the 320 million 800,000 sq ft 41 story Great American Tower. Great American only occupies half the building. Cincy got a signature tower with room for another 1000-1500 employees in addition to Great American for the investment. Milwaukee got the new 140...
- Thu Oct 24, 2019 10:32 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Companies moving downtown
- Replies: 277
- Views: 57587
Re: Companies moving downtown
The grand problem is there IS a wealth of unused or UNDER-utilized space downtown; the economics simply do not support office buildings above 15-20 stories -- yet. As the land becomes consumed; the roof heights will rise. This is profoundly true, considering desirable office plates are spec'd to be ...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:34 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Companies moving downtown
- Replies: 277
- Views: 57587
Re: Companies moving downtown
EVERYONE! I would love to see a 50-story building too. Not to be a dick, but these things take time! Six months ago; there had been ZERO concrete plans for office development. ..Only a few crude renderings and pie-in-the-sky talk. Today, the urban center has THREE substantial developments; engineeri...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:46 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Companies moving downtown
- Replies: 277
- Views: 57587
Re: Companies moving downtown
Nice sleuthing, NormalThings. Given an average of 250-330sf per employee in a like-use environment; plus the ~1,100 employment projection; this is a 300,000SF building, given sole occupancy. If multi-tenant; who knows? Inevitably, W&R will get their signage rights too. National advertising as a frin...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:16 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Muehlebach Hotel / KC Club Project
- Replies: 307
- Views: 73453
Re: Muehlebach Hotel / KC Club Project
I witnessed that implosion -- it was at the depths of the downtown; as the Marriott was applauded for actually investing in their annex building. Sadly, The Kansas City Star had a sarcastic editorial the following week (the implosion was a Sunday early morning) -- suggesting the city implode buildin...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:13 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Poll: #1 development goal for urban KC
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3526
Re: Poll: #1 development goal for urban KC
Walk-ability will be contingent upon the perception of safety.
Density will bring the venues in.
Density will bring the venues in.
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:30 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Hotel Bravo- 17th and Wyandotte
- Replies: 264
- Views: 51873
Re: Hotel Bravo- 17th and Wyandotte
Same logic applies to Strata, and the streetcar for some on the council. It feels different than Strata though. I feel like with Strata they like the project and want office buildings but are trying to negotiate out the city backing piece. It feels like with this they just don’t want it. If they ac...
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:54 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Muehlebach Hotel / KC Club Project
- Replies: 307
- Views: 73453
Re: Muehlebach Hotel / KC Club Project
..Plus done with more modest tax incentives.. Strata and Bravo are asking for way too much. "Hey, business entails risk. Don't ask the public to be your hedge." I am hoping there are a bunch of people at the Copaken-Brooks conference room having a "come-to-Jesus" session. If the Strata had not been ...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:45 pm
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: Four Light
- Replies: 144
- Views: 34409
Re: Four Light
which development are you referring to at 16th? A recent proposal that died before being publically announced. ..Without divulging information you might have in-confidence: Could you advise what class of use the project might have been? (Residential? Hospitality? Office?) Also, what was the general...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:31 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Crown Center: urban disaster, shining star, or in-between
- Replies: 1178
- Views: 165194
Re: Crown Center: urban disaster, shining star, or in-between
Conventional wisdom is to let market forces -- not arbitrary aesthetic mandate -- govern what becomes built. "Synthetic Scarcity" and other gimmicks tend to introduce unintended consequences. Surface parking lots can be addressed with other carrots and sticks: For example, tax the land at a higher r...
- Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:44 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Old KCPS HQ - 12th & McGee
- Replies: 305
- Views: 54945
Re: Old KCPS HQ - 12th & McGee
I hope you're right, KC-to-Brooklyn. (My main residence is across the Raritan -- in Red Bank, NJ -- by the way.) An assertion: Surface parking is a criminal's playground. Further; it is a denial of tax revenue for the city. The city would be well served to tax the shit out of the land and lighten th...
- Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:59 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Old KCPS HQ - 12th & McGee
- Replies: 305
- Views: 54945
Re: Old KCPS HQ - 12th & McGee
I do hope this Board of Education sale yields something bold and audacious. ..Something to open the "East Village" to the P&L district. ..With a lack of Class-A space; absolute absorption rates are certainly constrained by inventory of contiguous space. If a surface parking lot is considered good us...
- Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:28 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: New Broadway Bridge
- Replies: 928
- Views: 135859
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 1:58 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: New Broadway Bridge
- Replies: 928
- Views: 135859
Re: New Broadway Bridge
I just hope the decision is to not use a blah blah continuous plate bridge.. A postcard quality bridge would frame the waterfront nicely..