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Cousins out of Atlanta are going to build another 600,000 sq ft shopping center at I-29 & Barry, will have a super target etc.
They are already scraping dirt.
Fun stuff.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/15256457.htm
Heh. Good job Mid. I was gonna say, I posted something about it a few weeks ago.
Everybody seems to think they know something about it but most likely nobody really does. I wouldn't be surprised if everything that anyone heard was wrong and Costco ended up in freakin' Smithville.10-7 wrote: I had another thread going about this in the "rumors" section. I was at Hy-Vee a couple days ago and asked the manager if he had heard anything. He said that he had heard it was going at 152 & I-35 on the NorthWest corner - behind the Home Depot & Target (and that strip center). I think it's going along that outter road along the highway.
I had heard that it would be in the Liberty area - either at the location mentioned above, or in the "triangle" area where Gary Crossley used to be located.
Dangerboy, would you care to do the honors? (your cue to say "I thought you didn't post on KCMO threads Justin.")justin8216 wrote: great. I can't wait for more traffic on Barry Road!
No doubt! Of course if they would build some additional interchanges from MO-152 and I-29 to get to Barry Rd maybe all the traffic wouldn't have to funnel into the same two block area. Of course that would involve going beyond dumping asphalt onto existing roads.....justin8216 wrote: great. I can't wait for more traffic on Barry Road!
There are and there have been. I never spend much time waiting. At least not as much as I would if I were at Metcalf or down on Noland Road. Maybe you need to learn your way around better. There are exits on 152 at Amity, N. Congress, Ambassador, Green Hills, and Platte Purchase. That's 5 exits within a few miles. The one at Congress comes out right at the back of Zona Rosa, completely circumventing Barry. How many more do you need?SWFan wrote: No doubt! Of course if they would build some additional interchanges from MO-152 and I-29 to get to Barry Rd maybe all the traffic wouldn't have to funnel into the same two block area. Of course that would involve going beyond dumping asphalt onto existing roads.....
I live in the area and drive through it everyday also. I'm about 2 blocks north of zona rosa. Maybe I need to take you for a ride sometime and show you how a pimp does it.SWFan wrote: I know all the exits very well, I live just three miles west of Congress & Barry Rd across from Weatherby Lake. And I can say I don't think I've seen so many one-direction roads in a couple mile stretch that you see there on MO-152.
And I think its because I live in the area that I find it a pain. Sure, if you're just visiting from another part of the city it doesn't seem so bad. But when I have to drive those intersections every day, generally more than once a day, you tend to notice how aweful the set up really is.
I will say that the widening of Barry just to Congress will help tremendously with the horrendous backup you get going west-bound on Barry under I-29. On weekends traffic typically is backed up from the ZR entrance back to the lights under I-29 which then backs up traffic back to the entrance to the AMC theater area, which then at that light it backs up to the next light down by the hospital. All because everyone has to queue up in one lane to get through.
Over the last week they've started to open up those extra lanes in that couple block area from ZR to Congress, so I expect a fairly tremendous reduction in traffic.
And I'm not saying its worse than other intersections in the city, I certainly realize hell exists over by Independence Center at 39 & 291, down at Metcalf and I-435, 119th and I-35, etc. But just because an intersection has company doesn't mean its okay to be a crap intersection.