KCRag Forum

AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:43 amI know some people think 'if we build it they will come' to KC, but I think they are perfectly happy staying/working in JoCo no matter how much rail or downtown amenities we offer them.

I guess we better hope the Royals are smart enough not to move downtown.

Seems like some of you guys are really out of touch with current lifestyle and development trends. People don't live in Johnson County because they want to be slaves to automobiles. People live in Johnson County because it's where their jobs/friends/family are. Most stuff that's getting built nowada...

If you don't build any transit to the suburbs then you'll continue to have new office buildings downtown that contain more space for automobile storage than for working. And you'll continue to have new apartment buildings with big parking garages because people can't access a lot of the metro withou...

You must have misunderstood something because I don't know what would cost so much money? Just remove the north and east loop freeways entirely. A few tens of millions of dollars to clean up that mess maybe (offset somewhat by selling the land). Build about 1.5 miles of new highway along the north b...

Downgrade the west loop and north loop from freeways and run all through traffic on an improved/widened east loop. I'd do the opposite tbh. Remove the east loop and reroute everything along the west loop. Build a new connection on the north side of the river so that I-35 isn't severed. The east loo...

I'm just gonna say that never in my life has my decision to attend or not attend a sporting event been affected by the location of the event. And that includes living on a college campus and not bothering to walk across the street for games I had tickets to because the team wasn't good enough to be ...

Out of curiosity, if the stadium is put at 18th & Vine are you guys expecting a lot of people to walk there from Crown Center and the loop after they get off work at their 9-5 job? Are you expecting people to be willing to park in the garages at those places and then walk to the game? The distan...

Using Broadway instead of Main would be a pretty big mistake. It would cost a lot more than just using the infrastructure that already exists on Main, it would make transfers much less convenient, and the benefits are somewhere between slim and none.

East Village and 18th & Vine are both small areas completely cut off from the adjacent neighborhoods by highways and railroads. 18th & Vine may be slightly larger and have a bit of retail/entertainment already in place, but there's still just not a lot of developable land there after you tak...

Kauffman is just…none of that. It’s just a place. It’s known for nothing. Rumor has it there are a bunch of fountains in the outfield. Out of curiosity, I googled for rankings of MLB stadiums and clicked on all the top results. Kauffman is clustered around the #10 spot in every list. Arrowhead is g...

Would it be possible to connect this to 16th and Main by routing this along James St/670/southern tip of the convention center land/16th St? I'm assuming that the logistics of running this into the middle of the loop don't work out, but this idea shouldn't be taken seriously if the line doesn't con...

Would it be possible to connect this to 16th and Main by routing this along James St/670/southern tip of the convention center land/16th St? I'm assuming that the logistics of running this into the middle of the loop don't work out, but this idea shouldn't be taken seriously if the line doesn't conn...

This ignores geography, though. The further anyone is sent out into the burbs, the longer the commute. Not even public transit can square that. This is a good point. Yet at the same time, somebody has to live there. That's where homes have been built. Or well, strictly speaking it's not true that h...

My reason for bringing up NYC was that it shows a glut and shortage existing simultaneously in what is allegedly all just one market, which would be kind of a curious situation if it were really the case. I'm under no illusion that a few thousand apartments will resolve NYC's housing crisis and it ...

This would be all well and good if it in any way acknowledged the decision developers make to leave their new luxury construction vacant instead of discounting it too steeply. The NYT article you cited said that 3695 out of 7727 condos built in Manhattan in the last 5 years had not been sold. It sa...

This is what your microeconomics textbook tells you should happen, but it's not what happens in the real world. Housing is a segmented market and spillover between segments can be limited. I have previously posted about the illustrative example of NYC, where new high-end housing sprouts all around ...

Running a spur from the future Main/ Westport station to State Line Road, perhaps going one block into WYCO (Olathe Avenue?) and turning north to 39th would get a lot of ridership. Bringing the Volker neighborhood and the density of KUMC onto the system -- seems at least as important as Brookside. ...

This might come across as a shock but it is possible to build market rate units without incentives Well, that depends entirely on what the market rate is for the neighborhood in question. Nobody was lining up to build new apartments in this area even before the anti-incentive craze. Affordable hous...

This projects will pay tens of millions into the taxing jurisdictions that would otherwise not exist. This argument continues to make no sense to me. Tens of millions of tax revenue means hundreds of millions of dollars of spending. If this hotel can attract visitors who dump hundreds of millions o...