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It also suggests how we really aren't generating a return on the masses of infrastructure required to get people out of the city. The value is in the core. What do you mean "get people out of the city". I thought the idea of all this was to attempt to attract people to live in the urban c...

Mayor Q looks like he actually thinks all those people are cheering him.

"Property located in dense commercial districts and wealthier residential neighborhoods is considered to be 'more valuable' on a per-unit of area basis than property located elsewhere; film at 11." (Edit - sniped, but I'm just here for the property tax rant that is almost certainly being ...

What in the hell is this supposed to mean?

brewcrew1000 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:12 am Some people say that KC has the friendliest people in the entire USA

Haha what would Ricky Gervais say?

Lived here 28 years. The Plaza has gone from a ultra pedestrian friendly area with no traffic lights, imagine that.. to a automobile and noise polluted mess.

Maybe it is time to slow down just a little bit and start doing a little damage control?

That BM would upload drawings that WR hadn’t approved (as seems to be the case) is very strange. Wondering if WR had approved something and then backed up when the drawings were not received favorably. ^Agreed. This has all the marks of something fairly far along that they pulled after how things h...

earthling wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:48 am 40 appeals? Details?

Their properties assessments shot through the roof, and Polsinelli is representing them at the hearings.

Riverite wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:39 pm This is probably easily my favorite new building. I always dreamed of seeing downtown visually extended with highrises all the way to crown center

You would like New York City

LCDSI wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 4:50 pm Does anyone know if forever 21 is closing on the plaza or are they still negotiating the lease rates?

Plaza has about 40 appeals in progress so I can imagine if they aren't successful a lot of people-businesses are going to seriously consider closing and moving.

Any comments, statements, wisdom or enlightenment on this deal? Is midtown Kansas City ‘blighted’? Developers seeking tax breaks are trying to convince the city it is. https://www.thepitchkc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-17-at-4.51.28-PM.png https://www.thepitchkc.com/is-midtown...

I'm pretty sure that WPNA is not against development on the Madison/Bellvieu corridor as long as it considers traffic flow, etc. Most folks I know have been supportive of higher/better uses along that stretch. Why even worry about that at this point. It's out of their control. You can experience al...

chaglang wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:21 pm AFAIK, the WPNA has been fairly developer-friendly over the last 10 years or so. Maybe it's changed in the last few years.

Anything that might amount to charm, the quality of being grateful to be alive in the first place is being erased.

chaglang wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:29 pm You haven’t lived until you’ve been to a ramen throwing ax shop.

Yes the advances in human thinking and creativity is just amazing isn't it? Think about it. 140,000 years to revolutionize ax throwing.

A Missouri legislative committee has proposed a series of reforms to the state’s property tax system in response to this year’s reassessment process, where thousands of homeowners who saw their values spike filed a record number of appeals with Jackson County. The recommendations won’t help taxpayer...

Raise taxes on beer consumption. Revenue problem solved.

FangKC wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:44 am Looking northeast at the new houses on the NE corner of 23rd and Tracy.

Totally devoid of any originality and charm.

Well the kidults must have gotten bored and tired of this one quickly. Or maxed out the credit cards to quickly. Punch Bowl Social closes its $2.5 million location in Fort Worth, just 10 weeks after opening https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2019/11/07/punch-bowl-social-closes-its-25-mi...

"restore financial accountability"

LOL that's a nice "thought" there but it takes a hell of a lot longer to get out of mess then it does to get into one.

Everyone knows everything there is to know about Kansas City except how to enjoy it. Very interesting. enriching, and intellectually stimulating and enlightening approach.