KCRag Forum

chaglang wrote:So the cabbies are confident that they can compete with Lyft and Uber, but are leading the charge to keep ride-sharing out of KC?

it's a threat to their monopoly

Have all those non-profits in the mall like that cat adoption place or the election office gotten eviction notices? Don't they get tax breaks for giving those places free or reduced rent? All the remaining for profits in that mall on long term or short term leases? Has the Glenwood art house gotten ...

earthling wrote:Probably just a portion of impact - this generation also has more debt in their 20s. And it appears a higher % than ever (some Gen-Xrs too) have no interest in ever having children, including increase in dinks who have good jobs.

but houses in the suburbs are cheaper here than the coasts

This generation is having fewer children than any and apparently also highest % who have no interest in ever having children. The urban public school issues need to be fixed around the US but won't matter as much to the increase of singles/dinks/retired who live in city cores, especially as some em...

chaglang wrote:I suspect that's why there was such an outcry when the KCSD Board nixed the Westport High sale to AL. People have definitely recognized that there needs to be a non-private alternative to Lincoln.

how many students at the current Southwest HS are actually from Brookside or Waldo?

they'll probably move to the burbs when schools become an issue, but younger people will take their place Some of them will. But there a lot of Millennial families in Waldo/BKS/Midtown who are either going the charter route, creating charters, or navigating the KCSD. It's encouraging that they seem...

they'll probably move to the burbs when schools become an issue, but younger people will take their place

There's a lot of gas-less 7-11s here, but they are always slightly decrepit, even in the suburbs. as much as i hate the way QT elbows it's way into neighborhoods (they just tore down a two story urban building at Big Bend and Manchester to build a massive QT right in Maplewood/Richmond Heights high...

they won't be holding an outdoor SB in cold weather locations outside of NJ

QTs are all corporate owned, many 7-11s are franchised out to people who spend little on their stores, including security, some 7-11s have gas pumps, others don't, would QT franchise a pumpless store?

warwickland wrote:I noticed that QT is adding urban locations, and that they are the new "deluxe QT" ones.

Annoyingly, they are completely ditching old locations for major intersections and leaving dead gas station blight behind.

does QT build stores without pumps?

The idea I've heard that makes more sense is to have local folks be able to get a free pass for use any one day in the year. Spreads out the crowd, prevents the knucklehead factor, not to mention the possibility of screening for deadbeats, tax scofflaws, etc. Will they be mailing passes to every ta...

They wouldn't have this problem with crowds if it was free every day. St. Louis Zoo would have this problem on a bigger scale if they charged admission on most days and had occasional free days like this.

Rumor: a friend who works at Burberry told a Bloomingdale's department store is planning on a constructing a stand-alone space at 135th St. near Von Maur. I assume it would be a part of the Prairiefire development. Obviously no official announcement has been made. The deal could be fake or it just ...

So, the Jones has to be going away right? Like, it will be closed this summer and then open next summer to bring in some cash--but that's it right? No way people will pay $1,000/mo. to listen to/look at that on the weekends...right? That pool will become the One Light pool for residents. RIGHT? I'm...

High prices for real estate help ensure that land doesn't sit idle, but they don't keep buildings from getting knocked down. At New York prices, small buildings are likelier to get bulldozed (to build something taller) than they are in KC. I do think attitude is an important factor. New Yorkers in ...

No akp, I DO get it. Do you get it? Because correct me if I'm wrong, but Midtown Marketplace was investment. Was it not? So how was no one ballsy enough to invest in the area when the whole entire god damn thing we are talking about was investment?!? I just disagree with how they went about investi...

Business Journal said in December they expected to begin construction by now, has the extreme cold delayed things or just more haggling by Cordish? when is that gym under the Jones pool supposed to open? site says "summer" that could be anytime between Memorial day and Labor day, Jones poo...

Isn't HCA Midwest HQ nearby?

auntbigdog wrote:At least MO has a governor who can be trusted to veto, should it get that far. Still, embarrassing that it's even being floated.

but could the veto get overridden?