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Stadler’s hydrogen-powered train FLIRT H2 achieves a new Guinness World Records title Stadler is proud to announce that the FLIRT H2 has been entered into the Guinness World Records database for the longest distance of 1,741.7 miles (2,803 kilometers) achieved by a pilot hydrogen fuel cell electric...

The Guadalupe Center is building new affordable housing on its campus at Truman and Hardesty (the former Saint Paul's School of Theology). Guadalupe Centers Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing Initiative Guadalupe Centers Inc.(GCI) recently broke ground on a new affordable housing initiative, named ...

UrbanLab KC @urbanlab_kc This really should be a wake up call that it’s time to discourage and stop sprawl. We need to build upon existing infrastructure going forward, incentivizing development that makes more responsible use of land. We need economic and environmentally sustainable growth. https:...

We need to add population in places where infrastructure is already in place, otherwise, we are dooming future residents to higher costs per resident than other denser cities. Continuing the sprawl on undeveloped land is not in the interest of KCMO. UrbanLab KC @urbanlab_kc Efforts are already being...

(I don’t count the Stray Cat, because I’ve visited basements with a larger projector setup) Not sure how you can't count Stray Cat. Exhibition has changed so much since the pandemic. By this definition there's no theater anywhere in the urban core other than B&B. There is also a movie theater a...

So what makes the Crossroads an “Arts” district? The Crossroads used to be mostly a warehouse district containing a variety of businesses including Film Row, which were a bunch of buildings housing regional film distribution and exhibition offices for big Hollywood studios. People who owned and ope...

It's been under state control for more than 80 years. KC is now the only city in the USA under state control. There isn't any justification for KCPD being under state control. Kansas City's elected leadership has no say about hiring or firing the police chief, how the police leadership sets policy, ...

Some of the highest crime rates are in so-called red states. It's not just as easy as what party is in control. New York State and New York City have among the lowest crime rates in the country, and lower than many so-called "red" states. More often it has more to do with the poverty rate,...

HUD takes over and installs a Virginia firm to manage Kansas City's troubled Parade Park Homes [quote ]After decades of neglect and decay amid turmoil among the management of one of the country’s oldest Black-owned housing cooperatives, Parade Park Homes has been taken under federal control. ... Th...

Thanks for all the photos today Chris. How about swinging over to Beacon Hill and updating us on new houses on Forest Avenue? https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0795359,-94.5688881,484a,35y,90h/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu And new houses in the Plaza Heights neighborhood north of 45th Street to Corbin Terra...

I can't remember. Are they also tearing down that garage on 31st and Baltimore?

That structure was built in 1910 as the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company Building. The downtown airport wasn't built until 1927.

Build more dense apartments along Southwest Trafficway south of Penn Valley Community College.

Essentially, with a gutted Weld Building, a developer is getting a multi-story concrete and steel frame already constructed. Put a new facade on it. It's also a structure that would have interesting views from the upper floors.

Some of the complaints about the building were graffiti and missing windows. The same thing was said about The View before it was renovated.

I like that Chinese market.

Breaking the wheel: Demolition starts on West Bottoms building ahead of $526.7M development SomeraRoad Inc. has started tearing down the former Weld Wheel Industries Inc. building as a precursor to the first projects in its $526.7 million West Bottoms plan. Workers on Monday were doing interior dem...

The plan is to have 20 percent of the apartments set aside as affordable. From an earlier Business Journal article: The mixed-use apartment complex would be financed by a combination of private equity, debt and about $8 million in gap financing. Excess bond revenue could help cover costs associated ...

Jackson County Legislature will host public hearing about Royals ballpark The public have a chance next week to voice an opinion about the Kansas City Royals' intent to build a ballpark in the East Crossroads. Two members of the Jackson County Legislature, Chair Jeanie Lauer and Vice Chair Megan Ma...

KC will close deteriorating Barney Allis Plaza garage for demolition Kansas City will permanently close Barney Allis Plaza's crumbling parking garage in a little over a month so officials can prepare to demolish it. The 970-space underground garage is set to be shuttered April 15, about four years ...