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by chrizow
Mon Feb 06, 2023 9:53 am
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: KC in TV and Movies
Replies: 1900
Views: 575794

Re: KC in TV and Movies

trying to figure out which scenes were actually filmed in KC--or did they just take some "B roll" footage for background CGI? in the "behind the scenes" interviews after the episode, the producers said they actually filmed the "kansas city" scenes in calgary. i guess th...
by chrizow
Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8414
Views: 8155749

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

good to know. would love to see that happen in EV!
by chrizow
Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:58 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8414
Views: 8155749

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

STL's downtown is entirely dead in all areas outside of game day. KC is not like that. I do worry East Village will be insulated from the rest of downtown but we have something STL doesn't, a destination. EV Stadium you have the destination of RM, P&L, Crossroads, Crown Center. In STL there is ...
by chrizow
Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:44 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8414
Views: 8155749

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

did the Padres organization itself build the office and residential? or was that development created by third-parties, outside of Padres' ownership, as a result of the baseball investment?
by chrizow
Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:29 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8414
Views: 8155749

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

this could be a dumb question which has been discussed previously--but i was in downtown STL recently for work and walking around the govt/courthouse district, which is close to busch stadium. does STL illustrate how a downtown stadium could feel in KC? the two downtown stadium locations seem somewh...
by chrizow
Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:23 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 695558

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

the image suggests the yellow routes are "new/returning in 2023"
by chrizow
Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:13 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Brookside
Replies: 312
Views: 174037

Re: Brookside

https://kansascitymag.com/food/food-new ... is-spring/

some more details about the new SALAMI BAR coming to the Crestwood shops from the Earl's Premier / Happy Gillis folks.
by chrizow
Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:48 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Brookside
Replies: 312
Views: 174037

Re: Brookside

new restaurant going into the Crestwood shops - Bacaro Primo - paper on the windows says coming Spring 2023. Assuming italian based on the name and the Peroni beer logos in the window. Notably, I am told Bacaro Primo is from the same ownership as Earl's Premier, so this bodes well. I think the succe...
by chrizow
Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:23 am
Forum: Urban Living
Topic: Urban Living Pet Peeves
Replies: 134
Views: 62223

Re: Urban Living Pet Peeves

sounds like circling the sideshow with stop-sticks, then arresting the participants when they flee, is a winning solution. i also find it hard to believe a sideshow or drag race is a mere "traffic violation" -- seems like maybe it should be categorized as a more serious or violent (or atte...
by chrizow
Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:25 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: New Chiefs Stadium
Replies: 1437
Views: 163157

Re: New Chiefs Stadium

if arrowhead were to move, why not along the riverfront like the new KC Current stadium. it's close to downtown (although not walkable) for access but isolated enough to not be a drain on downtown vitality.
by chrizow
Thu Nov 03, 2022 9:19 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 695558

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

work travel this week took me through CLT and DFW--hadn't been to those airports in a while. those airports are very uninspiring but functional, much like i suspect KC will be (at a reduced scale). while everyone would love an iconic, beautiful airport, baseline functionality and some decent food/re...
by chrizow
Wed Sep 21, 2022 3:11 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?
Replies: 438
Views: 175457

Re: Is KC Tenants destroying the development future of downtown KCMO?

I'm paging chrizow here specifically because they've claimed to be fairly left wing, but I'm also interested in hearing opinions from any other progressives who might be hanging around this board, what do you all make of this issue? Discourse on this subject is way more one-sided on here than I'd e...
by chrizow
Wed Sep 14, 2022 12:50 pm
Forum: North of the River
Topic: Dispatches from the Northland
Replies: 8
Views: 1357

Re: Dispatches from the Northland

I looked at the northland when we returned to KC last year. Where did you end up?? What I did not like about the northland, was the totally disjointed and patchy feel to the area. It was like a lot of small communities connected by a fairly extensive highway system.. . . .A lot of the disjointed fe...
by chrizow
Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:00 am
Forum: North of the River
Topic: Dispatches from the Northland
Replies: 8
Views: 1357

Re: Dispatches from the Northland

i appreciate this post very much. i think the briarcliff area, and downtown NKC, are unique and are a great suburban option esp. for folks who work downtown or in NKC. other than the small village around Armour in NKC which is relatively urban in scale, i think up north one simply must accept it is ...
by chrizow
Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:44 am
Forum: North of the River
Topic: Northland finally starting to take growth from JoCo
Replies: 18
Views: 2382

Re: Northland finally starting to take growth from JoCo

JoCo is a county of nearly 600,000 people which directly abuts KCMO from 47th all the way south to form a contiguous (sub)urbanized area. JoCo contains multitudes--some aspects more favorable than others--but to say it's somehow more "disconnected" from urban KCMO than the Northland seems ...
by chrizow
Tue Sep 13, 2022 12:01 pm
Forum: North of the River
Topic: Northland finally starting to take growth from JoCo
Replies: 18
Views: 2382

Re: Northland finally starting to take growth from JoCo

The Northland is an awesome suburb, given its much more tied into downtown than JoCo. people always say this and i don't understand it at all. "the northland" is enormous and totally divorced from the KCMO city grid south of the river--whereas JoCo ties directly into it. the NE JoCo burbs...
by chrizow
Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:59 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1482217

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

unfortunately, the Plaza is essentially a shopping mall in charming 1920s architecture. its core function is not serving a neighborhood, it's maximizing rents from (mostly) the chains that can afford them. it will be interesting to see what happens to the Plaza in the next 10-20 years. brick and mor...
by chrizow
Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:49 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1482217

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

AlkaliAxel wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:42 pm An urban format McDonalds would absolutely get a ton of traffic if they tried it. This isn’t JoCo.
i mean...this has been tried. there was a mcdonald's on the plaza for many years, where noodles & co (?) is (was?) now, next to the defunct movie theatre.
by chrizow
Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:23 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1482217

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

probably a moot point since Winstead's is almost certainly on its last legs--but the architecture of the location seems fine to me, as a relic. it was built in, what, the 1940s, when the city was 5x as dense as it is now? i guess one could argue it was an early symptom of the car-centric culture tha...
by chrizow
Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:32 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 695558

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

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