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Just a summary update of the Mission Bowl apartments project. Since my last post above, the proposal has passed through the Planning hearing, Community Development Committee, and full Council with unanimous approval of the Preliminary Development Plan. Finance and Admin now to discuss tax incentive...

i didn't read the article but my guess is construction will start next year. on their website they've changed the date to a fall 2022 opening. I guess this is good news for oak park mall, it buys them another year to figure out what to do with that big space. CBL had been betting on demolishing qui...

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:47 pm Like clockwork.

Of course. How else would we know that the Arby's in Corinth Square closed because McDonald's owns... something, and that Andy's Frozen Custard prefers opening in Overland Park because of the Waldo Neighborhood of KCMO, but only if it's approved on the first.

and now Macy's is gone after doing a minor remodel of the third floor... and nothing else came of it.

Healthy campus' is at heart of new downtown KCK master plan We have committed $6 million dollars of the UG's annual gaming revenue from Hollywood Casino to development of new downtown YMCA, Grocery Store, Downtown Streetscaping, etc. And the naysayers on this forum keep trotting out the same old li...

jbean3535 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:36 am American Girl and Microsoft are both permanently closed.

Probably good to mention that Microsoft shutdown all but one store and American Girl closed their St Louis store two years ago and is closing Denver and Atlanta too.

It's great to see OP is serious about urbanizing that area. That said, adding parallel parking w/o reducing the speed limit from 45 to at least 35 seems like a bad combo, doesn't it? I imagine that will come, there’s more than enough karens living in OP that’ll complain to the council :lol: I think...

Pier One Imports might close all locations. In Nall Hills Place Mainstay Boutique and Johnson Home and Floor permanently closed. Kneaders Bakery closed but might come back. Pier 1 IS closing all locations. J.Crew/Madewell might be joining them. Gordmans is closing their last metro stores and St. Jo...

Mizzou05 wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 9:33 am You’re joking right...

Half the weblinks that get posted don't go anywhere either so this is no surprise.

normalthings wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 11:51 pm really hoping this project shows other area CEOs what they could have

By showing them that the city will build a poorly designed building for a company on the downslide?

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 1:24 pm Baldwin and Standard Style closing all stores across America. I assume this includes Plaza locations.

https://fashionunited.com/news/retail/b ... 132896/amp

Madewell and J.Crew are also at risk as their parent company declared bankruptcy.

https://www.examiner.net/news/20190313/independence-center-changes-hands-again So the mall changed owners again very quietly. The company that was going to buy it decided against it because the mall is too far from their other properties. Now it's owned by the firm that bought up the failing mall in...

I suppose it's possible the Plaza gets dumped for less than what Taubman paid? Would a local outfit be interested? Copaken? Copaken got out of retail ages ago when they started sinking all five of their malls. Three, including Oak Park, were sold to CBL. Leavenworth Plaza and Mission Center were so...

earthling wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:01 am So now that Tmobile/Sprint merger is final will Tmobile take naming rights?

Considering that Vegas has a T-Mobile Arena, I wouldn't bet on it.

Hopefully Taubman gives up on Plaza and sells to a true urbane mixed use player who can adapt it with mixed residential and more neighborhoody vibe while still inviting to region. Well, you're in luck. Taubman was already in talks to merge with Simon, the company that has dumped such area malls as ...

longviewmo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:58 pm They also defaulted on Independence Center when they owned it?

And their child company Washington prime owns Town Center Plaza and recently defaulted on West Ridge Mall in Topeka and Towne West Square in Wichita. Simon still owns Towne East, which is fairly healthy.

Zumiez Has moved to a much larger space in the former wet seal. Their old space is vacant in the main hallway, but the new store is quite a bit larger.

and the sprawl keeps sprawling... But please tell me that you have a problem with it on the Missouri side too. There are a lot of people in Facebook groups and on other Kansas City related forms (reddit/city data) that seem to only have a problem with sprawl when it’s in Johnson County, but seem to...

The lady at Sarausky who commented on the rumor hinted that Microsoft, Lego, coach, White House Black Market, Abercrombie, Hollister, and lush are looking for a way out. Lush just moved into a new spot that's 3-4x bigger than their previous one fairly recent (2 years ago?). I'd be surprised if they...

I've never understood why Mission didn't do more to develop their downtown with more residential, there's a lot of missed/wasted opportunity there now. Yeah, as a resident, I'd love nothing more than to see some density development here. The current mayor and a good chunk of the council are certain...