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I just noticed this the other day, or maybe I am blind and it has been there all the time, but there is now a red, blue and white lights around the top of the building. When did this go up? I really like it.
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Those lights have been there for as long as I can remember, but since last week they look brighter, much brighter in fact. I'm not sure if they changed the bulbs or the covers or what. Either way, the red, white and blue would be fine for the 4th of July, but not year round, They should be changed to all red for valentines day, green for st patricks day, green and red for christmas, rainbow for gay pride, etc... Having them glow red, white and blue year round makes the city look very unsophisticated.
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I'm not sure about unsophisticated but I would like to see them change more often. They used to change them on a regular basis....red & yellow during Chiefs season, changed them to the color of the Big12 football teams in 2000. Originally they were all white then since 9/11 they have been red white and blue.
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Well, keep in mind that that the major tenant for 1KCP is Bank of America. The colors are their corporate colors just as much as they are a patriotic theme.
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staubio wrote:Well, keep in mind that that the major tenant for 1KCP is Bank of America. The colors are their corporate colors just as much as they are a patriotic theme.
Good point. But, I still miss the red and yellow for the Chiefs or Blue and white for the Royals.
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Yes, the lights are much brighter. I can see them from my windows at night, and they are much, much brighter than they have been since I've lived downtown. The change occurred about three weeks ago. I love the lights on 1KCP, Transamerica, and Commerce Bank especially when it's foggy at night.

I was driving south down H-169 the other night and the lights on top of 1KCP created this effect where it looked like a spaceship had landed on the top of the building.
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I would like to see the lights in neon yellow.

I would be nice if they also lit the sides of One KC Place up at night? Maybe in green?
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The upper setback is lit up at night with white lights shooting upward to light the top section. The floodlights are on the corners.
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Has anyone besides myself observed what an abominable piece of crap One KC Place is on it's north end on 12th Street? The architects were obviously going for a dramatic skyline addition, but didn't bother to consider the street-level scene-- typical of the eighties.
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Doesn't it look like some kind of air shaft coming up from the garage?
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what are you guys talking about? I don't see anything wrong. If you can snap a photo please.
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Tosspot wrote:Has anyone besides myself observed what an abominable piece of crap One KC Place is on it's north end on 12th Street? The architects were obviously going for a dramatic skyline addition, but didn't bother to consider the street-level scene-- typical of the eighties.

Try the north side of City Center Square sometime. If you think One KCP is bad. . . .

It would be nice to see One KCP, City Center, Transamerica and 1201 Walnut reworked at street level. That would go a long ways toward improving the streetscapes-- a lot more than putting in landscaping, benches and nice lamp posts.
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Not to mention the Double Tree Hotel. It is criminal how it treats the street on it's north face.
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...and the east side of the Marriot, or most of Bartle.

There are tons of examples.
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Has there been a thred on how horrable and tacky lighting display on the south side of the Marriot is?

However I did kind of not hate it during the Big 12 Tourney.
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Yep, there was a thread on the lighting, but I think most people like it! As for the street level atmosphere of the downtown buildings, yes it sucks. I think that there are many many retail and food places downtown that people simply don't know about because they are turned inward primarily to serve the towers. Downtown would appear to be much more vibrant if the street levels of the downtown buildings were reconfigured to allow for a more inviting scene, with seating and signage and glass that is clear so you can see some activity inside. Hell, there was a story in todays's business section, Cityscape, about a jeweler that has been in business for 60 years downtown, and they've just moved from the second floor of the Bryant building to a space at 10th and baltimore. Without some word of mouth, or this article in the Star, I would have never known it was there! How many other retail establishments downtown are suffering because of the poor layout of the street levels of this buildings.
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If there are lessons learned about the streetscape disasters, then oh well. Luckily there aren't that many buildings downtown with these issues as a result of the suburban booms of the 70's, 80's, and 90's.

Again, I think the lessons have been learned and we'll see our first example with streetscape considerations in the new H&R Block mini-tower...I hope. The 00's and beyond are the urban core's time...again, I hope.
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paisstat wrote:....They should be changed to all red for valentines day, green for st patricks day, green and red for christmas, rainbow for gay pride, etc... Having them glow red, white and blue year round makes the city look very unsophisticated.
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Town Pavilion tried to fix the streetscape problem in the late 1990s and failed. They opened holes on the ground level at Main Street for several stores... Bagel & Bagel, a deli, a travel agent, and a juice cafe. All of them folded within 3 years. All within a block of the four biggest office buildings in the city.
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pittsburghparoyal wrote:
paisstat wrote:....They should be changed to all red for valentines day, green for st patricks day, green and red for christmas, rainbow for gay pride, etc... Having them glow red, white and blue year round makes the city look very unsophisticated.
AHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!

Oh, OH MY GOD!!!! My sides are splittin' !!!

BWAAAAA_HAAAAA! Seriuosly dude, thanks. I needed the laugh. That nutty idea would go over like a pregnant pole-vaulter.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the thought that crossed my mind when I read that was how a powder blue on 1KCP would be nice for the Hades Iceskating Festival.
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