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DColeKC wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:46 am How is someone supposed to have empathy for a person who is so arrogant, off-putting

Bro, time to look in the mirror.

She should take up her issues with one person, her landlord. It's his prerogative on what to do with his property. He didn't invest because he was hoping to be the landlord of small time bars, he invested to make money. The idea that tenants don't matter, it's only the landlords that matter, it's o...

While I think in the direct aftermath of an event like this, people will be hesitant to be in the same area. But, with a little time and perspective, I think people will see that makes very little sense. This was an event that attracted hundreds of thousands of people from all over the region and me...

Overall, this seems pretty detached from reality for the vote and will be rolled back considerably once they've gotten all the approvals. The office, residential and hotel will probably just be a parking garage. If that stuff isn't built along with the stadium then it's not happening. I feel like th...

As much of the process needs to be taken away from the politicians and handled by staff as possible. An achievable set of groundrules that if you meet them, you get the incentives, at least for projects under a certain number of units. Let city council set their goals in one guiding ordinance, not o...

Interesting, it sounds like being in or near the entertainment center of the universe doesn't automatically produce the assumed success that some executives in a board room planned and the professionals, that do this for a living, aren't infallible. Maybe that should show you that using one variable...

WoodDraw wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:20 pm If we can just tax the fuck out of surface lots I could be convinced.

Surely we can all agree on this!

Think about it. You tear down your building to add 30 parking spaces. You have the cost to tear down the building, build the lot, maintain it, hire people to run it on game days etc. Sure that works for a while, but only if the building you tore down was not being used. And the second a hotel or re...

The problem is that the surrounding neighborhood isn't centrally planned. Even if the stadium is perfectly executed with a garage or garages built as well as you can build a garage, there are still going to be nearby property owners that are going to view parking as a better revenue stream than what...

DColeKC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:32 pm I've always said in my estimation, the site that the Royals will want is Grand to Locust, but the block between oak and locust is too valuable for other uses vs parking structures.

What's there now is too valuable to be parking or parking is more valuable than what's there?

Plenty of surface parking lots already exist and I have no doubt the Royals will build some parking garages nearby, If that parking doesn't fulfill the gameday demand (which it won't) then that argument is irrelevant. And where are the parking garages going to go BTW? Only on surface lots or are we...

The anti-Crossroads people are acting no different than suburban NIMBY's. Not my area! Go elsewhere! Even though it's ultimately the *best* option for the city downtown. :roll: I don't live in the Crossroads and I deeply disagree with it being the best for downtown. In fact, I think the EC people h...

Would Cigar Box really be Cigar Box if it was in a brand new mega-project with a Jose Pepper's next door instead of a strip club?

I don't like the storefronts on Grand being demolished but I still think it's the best site. Actual proposal (seriously...), Let's just relocate those storefronts (at least save the architectural facades) and move them to ANY of these surface parking lots within a 2-3 block radius from the stadium....

Well of course my comment about strippers coming and going wasn’t serious. My point remains the same though, the stretch of grand isn’t what I would call vibrant or high activity. From my perspective both as someone who’s profession is involved and as a long term downtown resident, the pros of thes...

Let’s be honest, you won’t take anyone serious who is as I wrong for the crossroads site. I take many arguments for the East Crossroads site seriously. But, If the that site is so obviously superior, why the need to post utter nonsense and misinformation? What nonsense and misinformation are you re...

I would take you guys seriously if you were actually talking about the area the stadium is going to go. Instead you're posting the worst screenshot you can find from blocks away. Grand, McGee, Oak, Locust all have a lot of businesses. Let’s be honest, you won’t take anyone serious who is as I wrong...

I would take you guys seriously if you were actually talking about the area the stadium is going to go. Instead you're posting the worst screenshot you can find from blocks away. Grand, McGee, Oak, Locust all have a lot of businesses. The star building is literally in the picture I used, I didn't j...

I would take you guys seriously if you were actually talking about the area the stadium is going to go. Instead you're posting the worst screenshot you can find from blocks away. Grand, McGee, Oak, Locust all have a lot of businesses.

The most activity happening along Grand are strippers coming and going, police showing up to tavern disturbances and people picking up their dry cleaning. Jesus, dude. There are four restaurants, a salon, a bar that's an institution, etc just on one block of what you want to tear down. If you can't...