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I would think you run the risk of this happening any time you buy in or near an area that isn't built out.

Suburbs gonna sprawl, yo.

One has to remember that Brownback is only a proxy for the Koch Brothers and even people like Rex Sinquefield on the Missouri side. These guys are funding campaigns of state-wide politicians to cut taxes as low as possible, and cut government services and regulations as much as they can. Gov. Nixon...

I didn't know this was a thing and now I am sad.

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/05/43 ... etery.html

It looks like they took some "artistic liberties" with the location of the parking garage to prevent the building from being obscured.

DaveKCMO wrote:#1 lesson direct from portland: put streetcar where you want development to occur and stop getting so hung up on existing destinations.

Coming 2018: 179th Street Streetcar in Overland Park!

earthling wrote:Companies that support Cerner may locate downtown as it's central to and has direct freeway access to all other Cerner sites.

That's a great point, and hopefully the City's eco devo hounds are on that scent.

Here's an article from Bloomberg Businessweek where Detroit's JoCo tries to convince people (and themselves, likely) that they are not tied to Detroit. The comments following the story do a pretty good job of deflating Mr. Patterson's bubble. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-25/detroit-i...

I'm sitting in Terminal 2 of MSP right now, dining at a pleasant restaurant. I breezed through security in 10 minutes. I rode the Blue Line in, and there's a bit of a hike from the station to the terminal, but it's offset by not having to mess with a car. The terminal has curbside pickup and dropoff...

They're already adding the Parks Board complication with the Independence Avenue route. I'd imagine the study will thoroughl look into that aspect.

One reason I'd be inclined to consider Linwood over 31st is that the latter seems to be gaining momentum on its own and will further benefit from the current residential expansion in Union Hill. Linwood is sort of floundering along right now, dominated by big box development and blight, really. It's...

The Google store says they ship in 3-4 weeks. If I ordered now, I could conceivably be getting it around the same time Fiber goes live in my building, nullifying much of its benefit.

In order to be successful, there will be more shoppers needed other than the local residents," said Chesterfield Mayor Bob Nation. He believes people will come from at least 300 miles away to shop here. Retail experts believe the malls will create among the highest concentration of outlet reta...

The Post-Dispatch must read this forum, too! Editorial: Lessons of the Great Flood of '93? We haven't learned them yet . . . In the case of the Great Flood of ‘93, the White House commissioned a report asking 30 of the nation’s top water experts to answer those two questions. Twenty years later, the...

Water is water. And when there is too much it floods. So, using your train of thought I guess the Plaza didn't flood afterall. It just got a little wet. You're going to pretend there's no difference between flood control measures put into place to protect a heavily built-up and long-extant area and...

And it's all in a levee-protected floodplain! This area flooded in 1993 , after which the levee was strengthened. I suppose that by the time the levee is in poor shape again, this area will be in the check-cashing/thrift store/dollar store phase of the sprawl life cycle and nobody will care. Let's ...

And it's all in a levee-protected floodplain! This area flooded in 1993, after which the levee was strengthened. I suppose that by the time the levee is in poor shape again, this area will be in the check-cashing/thrift store/dollar store phase of the sprawl life cycle and nobody will care.

What would happen if there was a serious threat by Kansas to build a nice new International Airport South of 435. Look across the state in St. Louis with a competing airport on the Illinois side. Last I read, that airport was a huge financial black hole, and it's several orders of magnitude smaller...

They sure don't bother to come up with creative names for these places.

The City did a poor job educating the public on this one. The facts back up the City's initial decision to turn them off, but they just up and did it without any notice, more or less. Too bad the City can't assess the protesting residents to fund the O&M of the obsolete and unnecessary signals. :D

Don't forget about $4 billion for highway expansion. (Though to be completely fair, the regional planning organization [think MARC] and the State DOT are culpable here, but it's still symptoms of the same problem.) http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/06/19/detroits-regional-planners-need-to-kick-the-high...