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- Thu May 09, 2019 3:07 pm
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: 95 Metcalf South update and former Sears
- Replies: 96
- Views: 49286
Re: 95 Metcalf South update and former Sears
https://overlandpark.novusagenda.com/.../CoverSheet.aspx... Read Both but Staff Comments Yes because 6 thru 8 know Drive Thru's and 7 will have a Drive thru around it. I will spend the next 6 hours deciphering this post. Then I will spend the next 6 hours clicking the dead link. https://live.static...
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 1:21 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Scene
- Topic: wtf is happening to w. 39th?!
- Replies: 596
- Views: 182257
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:51 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: West Plaza
- Replies: 79
- Views: 24226
Re: West Plaza
Correct with the new Mikes (with drive through) and the mega QuikTrip and all the other cheap franchise joints this strip will no doubt become a walkable pedestrian paradise. :lol: Did someone say "walking paradise"? So sad.....KC needs to learn that "walkability" isn't just abo...
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:23 am
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: 95 Metcalf South update and former Sears
- Replies: 96
- Views: 49286
Re: 95 Metcalf South update and former Sears
...and LANE4 is now asking for free $$ for a suburban style assisted living complex. Jeez! https://shawneemissionpost.com/2019/02/25/developer-seeks-tax-incentives-for-novel-place-senior-living-due-to-unexpected-expenses-77245 Developers of the proposed Novel Place senior living apartments at 95th S...
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:57 am
- Forum: Kansas Suburbs
- Topic: 95 Metcalf South update and former Sears
- Replies: 96
- Views: 49286
Re: 95 Metcalf South update and former Sears
I HATE everything that has happened on this site. Terrible. OP talked the talk with Vision Metcalf, but are politically incapable of walking the walk.
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:01 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 5982
- Views: 1481578
Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
I think this tweet is a good example of the divide between "designers" and the average citizen. Read the comments.
https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1094569556272603136
https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1094569556272603136
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:51 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 5982
- Views: 1481578
Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
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...
- Thu Feb 07, 2019 2:43 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza Residential Development
- Replies: 92
- Views: 33381
Re: Plaza Residential Development
A group of 20 townhomes on the 4400 blocks of Broadway and Washington are set to be expanded and renovated/revamped. They will be expanded in the rear to nearly twice the size and it looks like there will be significant changes to the facades with balconies added That seems like a good project. It ...
- Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:03 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 5982
- Views: 1481578
Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
I think that the need for ornamentation is gone. It used to be something that drove tenant and public interest in a project. Now Technology is what really drives tenant interest, leasing rates, and even public interest. Whether that is buttonless elevators, LED walls, or even efficient and environm...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:47 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 5982
- Views: 1481578
Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
You were doing so good and then it became subjective. I think my statement is very accurate. Are new buildings uglier than pre-war buildings? On average, yes. At least to non-architects. Are new buildings less interesting/ornamented than pre-war buildings? On average, yes. Do new buildings degrade ...
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 12:23 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 5982
- Views: 1481578
Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
The problem is that most new buildings are uglier, less interesting/ornamented and degrade the public realm/neighborhood more than the old building You were doing so good and then it became subjective. I think my statement is very accurate. Are new buildings uglier than pre-war buildings? On averag...
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:34 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 5982
- Views: 1481578
Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Right. It's not even the nicest church on that part of 47th (Unity is). And the building replacing it is anything special? An ugly box. The reason people are so defensive of old buildings isn't necessarily that they were transcendentally good, but that the alternative to them is almost guaranteed t...
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:09 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
- Replies: 5982
- Views: 1481578
Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
The thing I worry about with that type of deal though is that the congregation will continue to get smaller and smaller until it doesn't exist anymore. I mean, how many Christian Scientists does one even encounter in KC. So they eventually cease to exist anyway and a perfectly good church building-...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:37 am
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Black leaders seek to rename Paseo to MLK Blvd
- Replies: 185
- Views: 66775
Re: Black leaders seek to rename Paseo to MLK Blvd
Wagner also pointed out that there has been a city park honoring Dr. King since 1978, so the idea that Kansas City had done nothing to honor Dr. King was incorrect. https://kcparks.org/places/king-martin-luther-jr-square/ Thanks for mentioning this. I pass this park all the time and never noticed t...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Black leaders seek to rename Paseo to MLK Blvd
- Replies: 185
- Views: 66775
Re: Black leaders seek to rename Paseo to MLK Blvd
I like the Paseo name, but it still has zero KC-specific heritage. Meyer has a street. Kessler has a street. No reason their boondoggle to Mexico has to be memorialized forever with a stolen street name. Because MLK came to KC when? I offer a simple counter to the idea that we should be sitting Shi...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:24 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Black leaders seek to rename Paseo to MLK Blvd
- Replies: 185
- Views: 66775
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:57 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Renovations of apartment buildings along Armour Blvd.
- Replies: 965
- Views: 343308
Re: Renovations of apartment buildings along Armour Blvd.
And hey, good on you Center City for causing an existing apartment building to be demolished for solve your parking obsession. :roll: Tear apartments down to build apartments. Geez. 3429 S. Harrison--six units. https://i.imgur.com/0JtyIoK.jpg When I see this photo of a doomed older apartment buildi...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Renovations of apartment buildings along Armour Blvd.
- Replies: 965
- Views: 343308
Re: Renovations of apartment buildings along Armour Blvd.
And hey, good on you Center City for causing an existing apartment building to be demolished for solve your parking obsession. :roll: Tear apartments down to build apartments. Geez. 3429 S. Harrison--six units. https://i.imgur.com/0JtyIoK.jpg When I see this photo of a doomed older apartment buildi...
- Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:03 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Westport
- Replies: 2812
- Views: 732239
Re: Westport
you never know....
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:01 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Westport
- Replies: 2812
- Views: 732239