Those amenities certainly aren't citywide.chaglang wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:44 pm
Thanks for the copypasta. Mentioned the pond, mentioned the playground, mentioned the path. Car charging and statues are laughable as amenities. The garden center is for holding garden club meetings.
Almost every park has pavilions and tennis courts. Spray parks are becoming more common. Gillham Park has one.
Point being: it's popular because of the location between the Plaza and Brookside, not because of what's necessarily there. Because what is there is found in almost every park in KC, including PVP. There's way more stuff in Swope Park.
We've wandered pretty far from the topic, so we'll have to agree to disagree.
23 parks out of 221 have Tennis. That's not remotely arguable as "almost every"
most parks don't have a covered shelter. the city says only 7 do. (I know this number is wrong, but they're clearly not in all parks.)
there's 17 spray grounds, they're less common than Tennis
Most parks don't have a pond/lake. Only 19 do
most parks don't have Civil War History. (duh)
There isn't a garden center in most parks. most don't even have a building
car charging stations will be why someone chooses to visit a park or not. because they need to recharge their car
because you don't own an electric car doesn't make their inclusion laughable
people visit to go to statues. there's literally a fire fighter memorial. I don't need to ask to know that it's important for fire fighters.
look at how many people go to visit the statues on the Plaza. it's part of the reason to go is to see the art.
because you don't care about art doesn't make their inclusion laughable
You're failing big on selection bias.