Misc Crossroads News

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KCDowntown wrote:Two that were early 2000's that were really terrible are the Law Building and the Lathrop Building on Grand. Both are surface parking. The Lathrop is the site of the proposed downtown YMCA and the Law is on the north side of the pedestal for the proposed twisting Copaken office tower.

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Brewery Emperial plans to join the East Crossroads brewery boom
Thompson has worked as the brewmaster at McCoy’s Public House since its 1997 opening, but he’s about to make his mark here. You can already see it: a “BE” he has added to one of the windows in white paint. This tagged-up address is the future home of Brewery Emperial, a four-vessel, 15-barrel brewhouse that Thompson says he’ll open in August with Room 39 restaurateur Ted Habiger and friend Rich Kasyjanski.
http://www.pitch.com/FastPitch/archives ... ewery-boom

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Why does there have to be a flock of birds in EVERY damn rendering. I'm getting so sick of that.

super happy for this project, although in a weird way I will miss the way that little building looks with the parasitic billboards. Something interesting about that.

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Midtownkid wrote:Why does there have to be a flock of birds in EVERY damn rendering. I'm getting so sick of that.
Renderings are so highbrow now. Bring back kids with balloons! And women pointing at things!

Aren't they just painting the building with the billboards growing out of it?
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Ladies with parasols.
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chaglang wrote:
Midtownkid wrote:Why does there have to be a flock of birds in EVERY damn rendering. I'm getting so sick of that.
Renderings are so highbrow now. Bring back kids with balloons! And women pointing at things!

Aren't they just painting the building with the billboards growing out of it?
We should go out and re-create rendering crowd pictures in developments that have come to fruition.
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When I was taking advertising classes in journalism school, we often had to draw people in our ads. This was back in the day when we rendered our ads by hand (no computers).

Anyway, my advertising professor once commented that all the women in my ads looked like Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H.
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pretty solid intel that there might be a 3rd hotel in the works for the crossroads.
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Any word on location?
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DaveKCMO wrote:pretty solid intel that there might be a 3rd hotel in the works for the crossroads.
# of rooms would be interesting hint :)
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midwest, midwest, midwest!
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grovester wrote:midwest, midwest, midwest!
Yes, please. Such a sad corner as is. Would loveto see ssomething happen to that building
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JBmidtown wrote:
grovester wrote:midwest, midwest, midwest!
Yes, please. Such a sad corner as is. Would loveto see ssomething happen to that building
An empty building or lot is not sad to me. It is opportunity.

Empty is far preferable to a half-assed solution.
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FangKC wrote:Any word on location?
within walking distance of streetcar :)
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Oh, it must be right on Main then, because we know Americans will not walk more than half-a-block.

Is it that formerly-proposed hotel near the Freighthouse buildings that fronted the Main Street Viaduct?

http://kcrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1 ... et+viaduct

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chaglang wrote:Aren't they just painting the building with the billboards growing out of it?
the billboard are already gone.

saw a rendering today. they will build a courtyard to the south and some new construction to the north. great project!
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get ready for a flurry of announcements east of grand this year, in addition to what's already been reported...
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DaveKCMO wrote:get ready for a flurry of announcements east of grand this year, in addition to what's already been reported...
tease.
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DaveKCMO wrote:get ready for a flurry of announcements east of grand this year, in addition to what's already been reported...
Is that a prediction or a promise?
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