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2024 is outpacing 2023 KS State sports betting state tax revenues. January was double and February 300x of what they brought in previous year

Amtrak is replacing their P42 locomotives and coach cars with the same ones that Missouri bought. The old units will be scrapped/sold. While old, the last time Amtrak upgraded their equipment many units were picked up by commuter railroads for dirt cheap. Could be an opportunity for KCATA to buy com...

Eastern bids on Miami based airline IAero assets The company was founded in 1997 as Swift Air, which iAero Group acquired and rebranded as iAero Airways in 2019. It operates a fleet of 42 aircraft, with hubs in Miami and Greensboro, North Carolina. Aero Airways – which is under US bankruptcy protect...

Yep, no way I would vote for it after that mailing. Not sure why the Royals thought it would be smart to demonize at least half the population. Was that an official Royals mailing? Or was it the work of a different organization? Cornerstone 1791, an organization linked to Jeff Roe The mailing was n...

There is a local real estate guy whose first job was working for the city while they developed and then started to implement the downtown renewal plan. He tells a story of writing a paper countering the proposed plan that quickly led to his demise in that position. Hope you get the chance to hear it.

Saw No on stadium ad on TV sponsored by KC Tenants. I do not understand what advocating for No (or Yes) on the issue does for the interests of lower income renters. How is KC Tenants funded that they can afford to buy television ad space? I asked them and Jennifer Manley where they were getting the...

I love how kc is too poor for parks. The city is too poor for parks and our chronically impoverished developers are too poor for parks. Honestly seems like a miracle we haven’t gone bankrupt like detroit yet That isn’t what I said. I said it is expensive to develop new things in the downtown area a...

Is raising the cost of new development, which seems to rarely pencil out here as is, a good thing? I think not. This is also not a particularly efficient way to create quality park space especially in a place like KC that already has a lot of little low activation pocket parks. To some degree, KC al...

Swarovski permits filed and hiring for store staff

I noticed on flykc.com that it no longer says "coming soon" for the availability of economy spaces under the garage availability. Have they given up on trying to maintain a live count of available spots in the economy lot? Weird to lose it after having it for so many years. Vendor issue? ...

I can't believe how many empty buildings downtown end up having vagrants living in them. Don't the property owners know how many buildings are set on fire by vagrants? One would think they would hire security to check the building daily for break-ins. Can't they hire someone to live in the building...

$200+ million neuroscience building in the works. 2027 construction start. 2027 will see the cancer research building wrap up so there is going to be alot of activity on campus

Anyone know if Cambridge tower B is in the works?

https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/access/charter-bus-service/charter-bus-service-regulations-0 I’m confused as to how they were able to use them for the airshow then? I only rode on private busses when it was downtown. They could have exhausted every qualified respondent’s capaci...

I get that the logistics are probably a lot easier this way, but it seems like a HUGE missed opportunity to not leverage some of the bus capacity of the weekday RideKC busses that are otherwise sitting dormant. Why aren’t we doing everything we can to create subconscious goodwill and familiarity wi...

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:17 pm What is the picture showing me?

It’s the current shuttle busses I think?

Saw No on stadium ad on TV sponsored by KC Tenants. I do not understand what advocating for No (or Yes) on the issue does for the interests of lower income renters. How is KC Tenants funded that they can afford to buy television ad space? I asked them and Jennifer Manley where they were getting the...

I completely disagree there. From a game play and experience situation, it's on par with several other major league cities. The locker rooms are spacious but of course would not be on a design or fancy level as the better pro arenas. A NBA owner could simply go to a sold out Big 12 game and see the...

It was but here's the good thing. It's ready for either anytime with minimal changes. It does suck we've yet to land one. There’s a big difference between what’s needed to house a team and what would be needed to attract a team out of their current digs. T Mobile in its current state isn’t nice eno...

To me the bottom line is that I thought it was built for pro basketball and/or hockey & however much later neither is in sight It was but here's the good thing. It's ready for either anytime with minimal changes. It does suck we've yet to land one. There’s a big difference between what’s needed...