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hubert wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:02 pmCities that are booming do not play those stupid games.

L O L

See:
Chicago + Lincoln Yards
NYC + Amazon
SF + Pretty much anything
etc

Every big city does this. It's not great, but it's an old game and developers know it. Cordish and KC will be just fine.

Tangential to all this Arabia/Walnut good news, wasn't there a plan at one time to ditch the parking lots that arabia uses? The ones on Grand? I'd love to see those lots gone and given over to an active use, be it buildings or park space.

TheLastGentleman - Bravo to all your comments and rebuttals. All arguments against you are merely uninformed excuses. Great points. Ornament or other human scale details are critical to making buildings worth caring about. Every building that is built that lacks that detail will never make the city...

We should be able to design buildings that, at the very least, match the quality of pre-war architecture, if not exceed it, but we just don't I get what you're saying, but I wouldn't use the word quality. What you're wanting is the detailing of pre-war architecture. The quality of today's buildings...

This forum had a vote and outlawed 'caps'... Cool... I agree that most newer buildings constructed with “hats” look arbitrary or clunky. I’m arguing for capping the building; in this case it fits with the historical styling. Even just adding a 1ft band of light stone below the highest floor would h...

It looks fine till you get to the roof. There should be a more ornate cap on that thing. All that work to match the neighborhood and you just slap 4” coping at the top? Weird move.

As of July, they showed an underground airport connection in lieu of the skybridge. Are we certain that’s not still in there? https://www.flykci.com/media/7685/19jul18-airport-committee.pdf Regardless, I’m okay with a crosswalk as long as they signalize it. Plenty of other airports do this and it se...

Agree with everyone about the height. IMO they would help themselves just by raising the store up one level. Keep the entry in place, but let there be some small tenant stalls along Jefferson.

It's hard to discern, but it appears to me that it's only brick for the first 2-4 floors, then it's EIFS or a panel system above. Not necesarily a bad VE choice, but interesting.

grovester wrote: ↑Fri Oct 19, 2018 3:51 pm The next best bet after umkc is a regional plan. It's not a very good bet.

Isn't the KC chamber supposed to be working on a plan?

I get the appeal of an upper-mid tier hotel, but shouldn't we have a diversity of lodging and commercial options? To me that's the lesser, but still important, compliment to affordable housing in the city. Sure, you don't want a sketchy Days Inn or something opening up; but I think there's a pretty ...

^Fair enough. I just find the concerns about traffic and "extra people" to be troubling to anybody trying to densify the area.

It’s a hotel. It’s not going to add residents/taxpayers/voters to the neighborhood. Their reasoning might not be solid but if I lived there I’m not sure how excited I would be about this either. You have tourism taxes, sales taxes, etc from everyone staying and working there, so it is adding someth...

The hotel that was proposed south of the plaza got a thumbs down from the planning commission. Apparently they're still pursing the project though. https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/development/article220104565.html "Won't someone think of the quiet streets????" What is in the water...

My bet is McFadden's then, which is 1330 Grand.

It says he's going into the Live block, is something closing? They just announced that Karaoke bar, so where's the available space?

This sure seems like it lines up with what KCATA was looking for for their site (bold, dense, etc). Would not be surprised to see it go there.

Seems like lateral moves rather than any sort of improvement. I wish JoCo would step it up with some BRT routes and <30 min headways...or at least late night/weekend service

Thanks for all the pics! Looking thru them I'm surprised how many exposed power lines are still in place. I would have thought the city would make the developers bury them. Developers have nothing to do with the transmission system, which is what you're seeing. The developer would just run conduit ...

Thanks for all the pics!

Looking thru them I'm surprised how many exposed power lines are still in place. I would have thought the city would make the developers bury them.