KCRag Forum

It would be great if this area focused on residential of various types and some office development. This is the perfect area to skip the retail. We have plenty of retail downtown and plenty of retail capacity. We can’t keep making several small, self serving pockets that discourage residents from g...

"Let's further lay the ground work by... - Mandating new subdivisions resemble old neighborhoods down in the city. Have a mix of detached single-family, row homes, and small apartment buildings lining new streets that are laid out in a grid. - Main avenues should automatically be higher-densit...

DColeKC wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:40 pm Austin has hit a major snag and have actually started to see home values decline and rent deals are abundant as they struggle to fill up apartments they built at a frantic pace.

You say this like it is a bad thing…we should be shooting for this

NY Jets and NY Giants play in New Jersey so the team(s) could still be called by Kansas City. The two newest MLB stadiums are located away from the central city in areas considered suburban and were built as suburban development plans. So being downtown isn't really considered necessary for the fin...

My favorite part is the fact that the “Reconnecting communities” program is being used to fucking widen highways elsewhere…

Can we rename the thread yet? There's a Big 12 Tournament thread (not all that far back) and I should have put my post there. If there's a moderator around that wants to move my initial and ensuing posts there, that would be OK. Nah it’s not even about your post, I’m just annoyed constantly reading...

Can we rename the thread yet?

This project's struggle more closely emulates other US streetcar projects (precarious funding and financing), but glad it's finally happening. It will complement the Main Street Extension nicely. Hopefully PortKC can live up to its obligations since this small segment is not inside the TDD. It shou...

Lake City Ammunition Plant in Independence is a primary supplier of small arms ammunition to the US military as well as a huge supplier to the civilian market. I'm sure a lot of Lake City ammo ends up exported to allied militaries around the world. Can confirm. The Greek military provided ammo for ...

I think it’s odd that the anger is being reflected on the voters. Like we have an obligation to vote for whatever shit they throw in front of us. They did a bad job! It's not my job to let them fail upwards. If they would have talked to any of us, they would have known the crossroads location would...

No. With prices going up you aren't getting a very good ROI. Crappy schools, shitty roads, and crime people want to sweep under the rug. Then you have guys like the poster above who thinks we're making progress because a bike lane that will be unkept went up next to a brewery with some generic luxu...

langosta wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:27 pm https://kansascity.legistar.com/Legisla ... FullText=1

Sound like KCMO will use streetcar TDD tax to pay for $50 million in new fire tucks

That sounds illegal

How so? Also did they confirm Ped bridge timeline as well? Depth of track slab. They have the box style tram track, similar to the initial segment, which necessitated more shallow track slab. From who I had spoken with, the Ped bridge is being undertaken by the City, and is not directly tied tot hi...

Ground Breaking took place on Friday, March 1st. Timeline is projected for early 2026 opening. Unsure if that can be sped up at all. Seems the Grand viaduct might provide a little more difficulty than initially anticipated. https://i.imgur.com/B3ov8aM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/hwt778M.jpeg https://i....

I've actually have seen this too and thought it had to be satire. I think some are just so disconnected from the urban core of the city they neither know anything about it or even care in the slightest what actually happens or goes on there. During the stadium discussion on social media, one of the...

Inside look at the Charlie Hustle. Obviously targeting the CBB fans, but am interested to see how they pivot

5 companies own 8,000 Kansas City area homes, creating intense competition for residents Kansas City homebuyers are bidding against mega-corporations for houses. This is how real estate investment impacts local communities. ... Investors are “intentionally targeting what has primarily been housing ...

No. With prices going up you aren't getting a very good ROI. Crappy schools, shitty roads, and crime people want to sweep under the rug. Then you have guys like the poster above who thinks we're making progress because a bike lane that will be unkept went up next to a brewery with some generic luxu...

Hopefully it is ran better than block 15. Block 15 is HOT GARBAGE. Wife and I went in one night to try it out, it smelled like raw sewage in the entire place, they were playing obscenely loud rave music at something like 6:30pm, and the waitress didn’t come over to our table for 15 mins after sitti...

I guess what did you guys expect? They're never going to turn that parking area into anything. I was just impressed they didn't make people taking rideshares crawl through an obstacle course to enter. I want better renderings of that area, are they getting shelters of some kind & benches there?...