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the long-term trend over years and decades across the country is that rent increases outpace inflation, because for-profit enterprise does not intentionally engage in activities that diminish profit. Pretty much everything included in inflation is for-profit. By your logic, everything should be out...

https://www.kcur.org/housing-development-section/2024-02-28/rents-kansas-city-missouri-housing-prices-affordable-kc-tenants When will the city stop being held hostage and admit that killing developments off isn't the solution? Man, KCUR is embarrassingly bad on the housing topic. “The rent doesn't ...

KC Tenants has made very public statements against this development. They also have a very public policy for seeking social housing.. not affordable housing. Literal social housing. It's in their mission statement. https://www.dwell.com/article/kansas-city-tara-raghuveer-kc-tenants-social-housing-d...

The comments from Jaz Hays on there are from KCT's newest BZA member. Good luck y'all. Comments on a Reddit thread are what's stopping this from happening? I distinctly remember KC Tenants not actually saying/doing anything about this project, at least publicly. In fact, we had a discussion about i...

Well you don't vote until April so maybe let them release the info you want/need. I'm not early voting today for that reason. Yeah, I'm going to make a decision once we have all of the information. Now I'm a no but that can change. But, it's pretty ridiculous that the teams would allow early voting...

Maybe for people familiar with downtown. Those unfamiliar probably don't know enough to know how far the "hassle" from a game extends. But the rest of my post is really about how all the things many of us wish for (greater employment, more housing, more events, conventions etc...) is goin...

How many times do I need to say something before it's listened to? I've said it about 20 different ways that there will be losers in this and that it's a sad reality. I've tried to preface dozens of times that by not kowtowing to this specific business owner, I'm not trying to not have empathy. She...

While that's true, it's true of almost every special event. Why hold an NCAA tourney in KC or the B12 Tourney? It would be true if downtown were to gain several major 1000+ employers in the next couple of years or KC started becoming a convention town again. It's true but it is kind of immaterial. ...

Very true, but that won’t be the perception forever. It’ll eventually just becoming something people deal with if it becomes the norm. It may have some novelty for the first month or two, or maybe the first season, but it likely wouldn’t continue far past that. Potentially. My point is not to say t...

The parking is a lie. We've been handling sold out arena shows combined with sold out other events on the same days with everyone finding parking for almost 15 years. The parking is not a "lie". Two seemingly conflicting things can be true. Downtown can have an unreasonable over-supply of...

If the vote fails, the Royals and Chiefs should ONLY be blaming themselves. No matter what, there was going to be opposition to a downtown stadium from Eastern Jack, save the K types and anti-tax types (both libertarians and KC Tenants, who would be against renovating the K, too). That's a given no ...

I've never seen a stadium go to a public vote without even the cost of the stadium known before or in the Chiefs case, I've literally never seen a city vote for a stadium with literally zero released plans or drawings. It's completely freaking insane. You are acting like these are tiny details like...

I mean, annual attendance, even for the Royals is still almost 1.3 million. In one of their worst years ever. That’s over twice what Chiefs attendance is. This is before you include the increase that a downtown stadium would bring, which roughly equates to ~5,000 more per game. Obviously it makes n...

Could the same argument be made about baseball? I know the rule changes last year caused a slight bump in viewership and attendance but the long-term trend has been negative. Younger sports fans seem to prefer basketball and soccer. Baseball is an old man sport. Are we going to look at replacing a n...

Waits 20 years to finally get a downtown stadium and KC and this forum is now the leading group against it. Un-fucking-believable. I know. It's pretty unbelievable that the Royals could conjure up a site plan that I wouldn't support. That said, I'm a no now but I could be swayed to a yes but the Ro...

To all of those: So what? There is uncertainty around everything. Every sizeable project ever built. A simple increase in competition from another source could also send every business in the area reeling. Where's the guarantee that nothing will change when we invest? I'd be a richer man today if w...

And you can afford to do this while losing money? Doing what you’re passionate about is admirable but no one, well almost no one can do this and not also generate a profit. The dream is to do what you’re passionate about while also making a fucking pile of money. Anyone who says the profit portion ...

It depends on the business. Some will do very well with the Royals nearby. Yeah, some will and some will be worse off. There's more to the Crossroads than breweries. A complete lack of critical mass and the city's ability to think any of that through. And, so we're suddenly going to trust the city ...

But being a successful business-owner doesn't mean someone has insight into the subject matter at hand. Maybe not about the lack of development around TSC but she certainly has more insight into her business, patrons and neighborhood than you or the Royals. I think what she's saying isn't some insi...

bspecht wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:56 pm
Includes best map I've found showing how much of route will be marked transit only: https://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uplo ... _10_20.pdf

Am I looking at that right? The whole extension north of 45th is transit only?