Where/What is the Heart of Metro KC (in your opinion)?

[slimwhitman]

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/05/147968699 ... c=fb&cc=fp

What is the heart of KC? Where is the heart of KC?

Here is a video of "The Heart of Ann Arbor":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsrqBHEOT0k

Photos are good, if you have one.

[smh]

The Loop.

[grovester]

From that video, I'd say it's Lawrence. Freaking college towns!

[Pork Chop]

The Loop.

To me the heart of the metro area is the entire urban core i.e. from the Rivermarket to the Plaza and from the westside to the eastside.

[heatherkay]

The heart is Union Station.

[loftguy]

My barstool.

[slimwhitman]

How do we get more of these great "hearts" of activity in our city?

Some inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iciuh5pb ... r_embedded

[earthling]

I sometimes hear JoCo people call entire RM to Plaza stretch, 'downtown'. I've heard Northlanders call same stretch 'the city', as in 'going into the city'.

[mean]

Growing up in Independence, everything west of 435 was either "downtown" or "JoCo". I worked to correct this to no avail.

[kclofter]

Plaza.

[warwickland]

Oak and 41st SE corner, rear. I found something terrible and wonderful, as it cast my face aglow and an insidious smile split my face ear to ear.

Just kidding.

When I lived in KC, it was probably Westport to me, splitting the difference of midtown to downtown and plaza to waldo.