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by LenexatoKCMO
Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:38 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star: AMC to revive Empire Theater
Replies: 10
Views: 2251

Re: Star: AMC to revive Empire Theater

This is already being discussed in a P&L thread about this block
by LenexatoKCMO
Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:01 am
Forum: Power & Light District
Topic: P&L District: 14th & Baltimore site proposal
Replies: 171
Views: 54865

Re: P&L District: 14th & Baltimore site proposal

Glad to see they'll screen indie films but corporate filmhouses screen only high profile pseudo indie films or those that have many copies available.  Would like to see another indie screen or two downtown that shows more obscure films.  Screenland in Xroads is one.  Another, perhaps in the Mark...
by LenexatoKCMO
Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:55 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

I think you are still missing Toss and Staubio's point - I think they are saying use the excessive surface lots in the xroads (many Star owned) for new residential construction - not streetfront retail.  Residential can't be sold/leased fast enough down there right now and the more people - the less...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:31 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

Toss - you beat me to it.  Who in the hell is going to wander accross acres of desolate parking lot in the middle of the night to watch the presses work?  As to the comments implying that the Star is justified in expanding the lots and building a garage later because there is no one willing to devel...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:06 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Westport Flea Market STILL IN EXISTENCE!
Replies: 277
Views: 46880

Re: Westport Flea Market GONE?

What could be more natural than combining a trip to the Auto, Boat, or Sport Show at Bartle with hot wings served up by busty waitresses? 

Plus I forgot to take into account all of the recent college grad loft dwellars - icing on the cake.

I better go find a Hooter's suggestion box.
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:33 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Westport Flea Market STILL IN EXISTENCE!
Replies: 277
Views: 46880

Re: Westport Flea Market GONE?

Oh no, I wasn't talking about Westport - this location is a bit of a head scratcher to me too - maybe it will work.  I was sugesting that they should put one down in the central business district - like in the base of one of the office towers.  Somewhere in walking distance of Barney Allis - the mar...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:23 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

I'm pretty sure they did that on purpose.  They took the wind out of any potential outrage before it could get started. I guess it is easy to do that when you control the city's primary news outlet - It couldn't possibly be a coincidence that they waited to print this otherwise newsless article on...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:43 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Westport Flea Market STILL IN EXISTENCE!
Replies: 277
Views: 46880

Re: Westport Flea Market GONE?

this sounds somewhat more encouraging - I could be happy with Hooters coming to westport if it didn't mean the demise of the flea market.  I would eat at both.  I have always wondered why they never put a hooters down in the loop - I would think it would clean up with the convention goers, turists, ...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:38 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Westport Flea Market STILL IN EXISTENCE!
Replies: 277
Views: 46880

Re: Westport Flea Market GONE?

ME - sounds like we have an insider - cough it up -what do you know?  Is it true?
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:23 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: St. Louis company to renovate three buildings into lofts
Replies: 48
Views: 7283

Re: St. Louis company to renovate three buildings into lofts

ComandanteCero wrote: i have a question, is there 1.5 million sq ft worth of buildings downtown that could be made into lofts that already haven't or aren't in the process?  Just wondering which large buildings are left for loft conversion downtown....
One KC Place; P&L; AT&T; 1201 Walnut; Town Center  :D
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:20 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

So much for the letter writing campaign :o
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:44 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

KCOEK - were you a Star employee?  Do you have any insight into their parking needs and/or why they didn't just go ahead and build a nice prefab garage while they had the construction crew on sight?  I am rarely down their durring business hours as I work out in the burbs so I have no idea if all ...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:19 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

You original post cited "their weekly 'news' articles." Do you mean the internal company newsletter? If so, what do you expect? Every company toots its own horn in its company newsletter. Those publications are intended to be internal PR rather than journalism. No I am refering to article...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:58 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

nota wrote: Last I heard owners are allowed to do what they wish with their own property.
and last I heard I am allowed to criticize it as being hypocrytical with said company's self label as a paragon of urban renewal. 
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:53 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

So you are saying that what they say is not true? What part of it is not true? Call it what you want-I dont' see anything that isn't true in what they are saying. Nota - I never called it untrue - I called it self-promoting and bad journalism - big difference.  When a media outlet constantly presen...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:12 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

Honey, I've had a private tour of the whole new facility inside and out. I know which buildings are being torn down, etc. They are not "hundreds of acres." I saw nothing in the article or anything else they have printed that was "self promoting." This whole thread is  just anot...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:54 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

Nota - have you been to the northern xroads lately?  Take a look around and count how many surface parking lots there are sprinkled everywhere that have little signs on them that say "KC Star employee parking" - they are everywhere- some of them huge.  If a company is going to hold itsel...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:32 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: St. Louis company to renovate three buildings into lofts
Replies: 48
Views: 7283

Re: St. Louis company to renovate three buildings into lofts

not to get too far off topic, but is there a reason why the large surface lots west of the Freighthouse and south of many of these buildings doesn't get turned into a large parking garage?  It seems like it would be pefectly located and suited to meet just about everyone's parking needs. I can thi...
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:59 am
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Yael "I hate Kansas City" Abouhalkah strikes again
Replies: 51
Views: 6313

Re: Yael "I hate Kansas City" Abouhalkah strikes again

His article left out an important item:

-local newspaper promises to construct fabulous new facitlity promoting downtown but then lets city down by paving over thriving neighborhood with surface parking lots. 

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 126513.htm
by LenexatoKCMO
Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:20 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots
Replies: 111
Views: 12727

Re: Star tearing down buildings for parking lots

I guess the only potential brightside would be if the Star turns loose some of their further away lots for development (like the giant on the West side of Soho South). Â