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What's the story here? Is this a speculative rendering or something concrete?

Indeed, I absolutely agree. That's why I was pleased that the report said as much.

That's interesting. There's definitely a disconnect between some of the areas labeled on the map as parks and areas that function as parks. The entire swath of riverfront north of the East Bottoms is labeled as park, when it's mostly just forested riverbank.

I came across an article about a study done by The Trust for Public Land. This study looked at how well a city was served by its parks, namely how much area was within a 10-minute walking trip of a park. Not surprisingly in KC the core south of the river is mostly well-served while large swaths of t...

Good news from the KDOT 5-County Study (bolding is mine): A potential outer loop would increase the connectivity of major highways in the south and west portions of the 5-County Study region. However, when evaluating the outer loop it appears that the service would provide for regional traffic movem...

smh wrote:It does seem peculiar that there has been no press.

It's a nice taste of what it's like in other cities where development like this is just business as usual.

Also don't forget that the Halls are one of the most outspoken critics of the cross border incentive war. They financed initiated(?) the study the EDC did last year and personally signed it the letters sent to each governor highlighting how detrimental those activities are to the greater community....

NSPJ also did Briarcliff Village Apartments, Townsend Place and Kirkwood on the Country Club Plaza, and The Village at Mission Farms (Overland Park) mixed use and apartments. Briarcliff Village http://www.skylinescenes.com/e107_images/briarcliff.jpg I'm not a fan of the way the Briarcliff buildings...

I've only rode the River Runner, but my secondhand experience is that if you're subtle & discrete you're fine. I rode once in October and a group of ladies were getting on with their spoils from Hermann. All the conductor asked them to do was keep it down a bit in their end of the car. I think o...

How wonderfully 20th Century! I wonder if they'll seek exemptions to allow for the use of asbestos in the construction and to allow for smoking inside? Maybe the dress code will include polyester and leisure suits.

Absolutely horrendous, terrible, ridiculous project. Not only is this project a poster child for everything that is wrong with KC, it has more public money funding it than most urban core redevelopment projects do. +1 I wonder if any of the parties involved have taken a step back to just look at ho...

Also, sprawl increases demand for gasoline (read: ethanol), which drives up the price of water-intensive corn crops and makes them more desirable to farmers in those drier areas the ag has been displaced to.

I wasn't wowed by Whataburger. Preferred In-N-Out, TBH.

Another consequence of local sprawl. Every section of non-irrigated land that is removed from agricultural production here gets replaced with an irrigated section out there. One could argue that we produce more ag products than we need to, but this tradeoff is the current reality as it stands now.

If you're going NB on the Broadway Bridge and look at the south end of the swing span you can see a couple old railcar axles sitting on the bottom horizontal member of the truss next to the deck as a counterweight. The story I heard is that they were put there as to balance the swing span after the ...

Can we dissect that PDF for a few minutes? I know these guys are doing good things at Ward Parkway Center, but this just seems a little far-fetched. The Marketplace will be the region’s only power center and a highly visible and accessible, premier shopping destination when it is completed. It will ...

An Aldi would carry produce. An Aldi would be great for this area. I frequently shop at the Paseo & Admiral store and it seems to draw people from across the entire western half of the Old Northeast. Increasingly, it's drawing more people that I would presume to be Downtown/RM/CP residents as w...

Regarding the report, how is a suburban-style shopping center going to fix 63rd & Prospect any better than it fixed 31st & Prospect?

That's quite unfortunate. I'll have to study those signs that they have up more closely next time I'm nearby.

Charlotte and Holmes in Columbus Park 6th between Cherry and Charlotte 7th/Admiral between Grand and Washington All of 8th All of 9th All of 10th The rest of Charlotte from 11th on South All of Holmes through the CBD and Crossroads Yeah, um...basically everything. Some of those are easier than other...