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by chaglang
Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:15 pm
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: How KC became center for high-tech without major university
Replies: 33
Views: 7607

Re: How KC became center for high-tech without major univers

thanks for posting Max, very interesting. Could bode well for the region's future, especially with Google now in the fold. Tangential, but I wonder what it would take to get UMKC on the map as a "major university" that attracted people besides local high school grads and adults looking to...
by chaglang
Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:05 pm
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Kansas City optimism
Replies: 93
Views: 23494

Re: Kansas City optimism

I'm not sure what these "hassles" are that everyone refers to when talking about larger and more vibrant cities. More people? Well, yeah. That comes with the territory. So does an increased cost of living, increased traffic congestion, and various other "hassles" which are the t...
by chaglang
Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:06 pm
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Kansas City optimism
Replies: 93
Views: 23494

Re: Kansas City optimism

I'm optimistic because we seem to be in the middle of a serious creative boom here. And the role social media is playing in that is really interesting. Growing up here my sense was that there were a lot of creative types who were sort of disconnected - from one another and everyone else. Unless you ...
by chaglang
Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:07 pm
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Great hoods virtually unknown by metrowide residents
Replies: 40
Views: 8518

Re: Great hoods virtually unknown by metrowide residents

No one's mentioned Squier Park so I'll throw it out there. It's on the other side of Troost from Central Hyde Park, and the style and vitage of the architecture is almost identical. Almost every prominent KC architect built there at the beginning of the 20th century. It went further downhill than Hy...