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I don't think this attitude is helpful either. They're concerned with housing vulnerable people in KC, and that's admirable. It's just their methods and rhetoric that are tiresome and questionable. Mine's not an attitude, it's an opinion. These worthless shitheads have never housed or fed a single ...

31st-39th: Midtown
39th-43rd: Westport
43rd-Volker: Plaza
Volker-55th: South Plaza/Crestwood
55th-Meyer: Brookside
Meyer-Gregory: Armour Hills
Gregory-75th: Waldo
75th-?: South Waldo

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 7:52 am I’m shocked a forum that’s ostensibly dedicated to urban KC could produce some of the anti-urban crap I’m reading on here

Noticing a lot of new posters in these discussions.

Seems like we should worry about the retail there.

The bananas thing is that the editorial calls for capping the loop to the east to spur redevelopment. But given the Star's recent editorials, it's likely they would oppose that redevelopment as gentrification.

Then just undo the cluster at the bottom of the 12th street bridge. And reinforce the Beardsley connection.

Fixing the intersection of Chavez and SW Blvd would be useful also.

Wouldn't it be easier to clean up the connection to Chavez and have that be the main WB access point, rather than a gondola? Not totally sold that the main WB access has to be directly to the core.

With the plywood huts inside? Yes.

Can't really blame them for thinking that would work here, too.

Not sure what leverage the council and mayor have here.

From a couple experiences in downtown, it isn't uncommon for the city to not know exact underground utility locations.

Misread that as the SW corner. It would be great if UCB could get that project off the ground. You'll remember that at one point they had an option on the SE corner, pending the successful completion of the SW corner. They were pretty far along on the design of the SW corner before deciding that the...

UC-B Properties, a significant developer on Troost Avenue, is pursuing a 90- to 100-unit apartment project at the southeast corner of Linwood and Troost. Developer John Hoffman said would like to break ground on the proposed Troostwood development by summer. Hoffman said the project will include a ...

They say that the Kansas City live block sits empty except for a few big things a year? Lol That was the part of the article I cringed at the most. Acting like outside of the Super Bowl & World Cup, it's just empty. They're trying to hard to over-compensate & paint a narrative that isn't tr...

Imagine how annoyed they'll be when they're always sitting in traffic to get from the crossroads to downtown. The park is great, but it's secondary to getting people into/out of DT. I guess I would say I’m just really surprised on this particular forum there’s more concern about cars & traffic ...

Imagine how annoyed they'll be when they're always sitting in traffic to get from the crossroads to downtown.

The park is great, but it's secondary to getting people into/out of DT. Should be easy to program a park with the streets cutting through.

Westport is a great example of how gradual street closures can result in a permanent cluster. On a basic level, what happens if Walnut is vacated and there is road construction on Oak or Main? We're reducing flexibility/redundancy for no good reason.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:35 am FAA powers are broad and annoying

Yes. I've run into them on projects over near the Blue River/Manchester... which is AFAIK near no airports. Their application process is impossible.

Believe that the owner's permission is needed to list the property.

There may be a development in the works, but "it would be surprising is X parcel sat vacant" is a familiar prelude to nothing. It's impossible to take developers seriously.

I'm not clear on what their options are to save the buildings.