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by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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.
by AlbertHammond
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

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by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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 ...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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 ...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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-...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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

Re: Black leaders seek to rename Paseo to MLK Blvd

WSPanic wrote: Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:02 pm 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?
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
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...
by AlbertHammond
Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:03 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Westport
Replies: 2812
Views: 732239

Re: Westport

you never know....
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by AlbertHammond
Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:01 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Westport
Replies: 2812
Views: 732239

Re: Westport

Darlene wrote: Tue Dec 18, 2018 5:48 am I think they are making a good choice there. It will be good for traffic to add more parking in there.
...and we all know "what's good for traffic is good for the city". At least that's what I read in my 1970's city building manual. ;-)