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harbinger911 wrote:I had not seen these very cool rendering before.
No Sprint Center but the towers complement the south loop very well.
http://williamcorneli.files.wordpress.c ... dseye1.jpg

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That whole post is interesting: http://williamcorneli.wordpress.com/200 ... s-city-mo/
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Lucked out on missing this. Gone is the Empire/ Mainstreet; gigantic garage aboveground where SC went, massive skywalks.
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woah, that is a huge parking garage (right side of the top image)

that plan feels more like a suburban shopping mall.
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moderne wrote:Lucked out on missing this. Gone is the Empire/ Mainstreet; gigantic garage aboveground where SC went, massive skywalks.
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The Mainstreet dome is right there, lower left.

Skywalks suck...but the garage at least has some style, looks deco.

I really really like the two skyscrapers with the pyramid tops. Wish we would get a couple deco-inspired mid-rise buildings downtown
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Is that an "AMC" in the middle on the top of a dome?
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Mainstreet/Empire was "jenkinsized." Only the dome was to remain.
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moderne wrote:Mainstreet/Empire was "jenkinsized." Only the dome was to remain.
Ha! Love that term.
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moderne wrote:Mainstreet/Empire was "jenkinsized." Only the dome was to remain.
Looks more than a little like the Hiroshima Memorial.
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Any word on groundbreaking?
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schugg wrote:Any word on groundbreaking?
cranes were supposedly going up in december.
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I was wondering the same thing. December is only a couple weeks away and it still looks like a parking lot ; ).

I'm just wondering what time they will start the jackhammering on Saturday.
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I'm guessing "cranes" was a metaphor.

its going to be like river market west where one day it's a lot, the next day there's fencing and work underway
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That doesn't surprise me. I look down into the site and I understand putting up some fencing but there were cars still parked in that lot last night. Food trucks should draw decent business in the future if there are still allowed to park along that section of the street.
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Too bad. I was looking forward to seeing the tower crane when I was in town next month.

Does KC have any tower cranes up and operating presently?
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Highlander wrote:Too bad. I was looking forward to seeing the tower crane when I was in town next month.

Does KC have any tower cranes up and operating presently?
this project likely wouldn't have had a tower crane up for months. they don't need one to dig a hole and lay a foundation

no projects are in the sweet spot and big enough to need one right now
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There's a tower crane at 51st & Main for the apartment building under construction there.
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Get this thing up! It's exciting to see that Cordish my follow up with additional towers, but 3-4 new towers over a period of 10-15 years is really nothing to get excited about. I hope what this tower does is spark new construction by companies other than Cordish. Cordish will not build more towers without similar subsidies anyway. They need to keep rents high, even though this building is subsidized to spark more new high rise construction in the loop.
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GRID wrote:Get this thing up! It's exciting to see that Cordish my follow up with additional towers, but 3-4 new towers over a period of 10-15 years is really nothing to get excited about. I hope what this tower does is spark new construction by companies other than Cordish. Cordish will not build more towers without similar subsidies anyway. They need to keep rents high, even though this building is subsidized to spark more new high rise construction in the loop.
it's something like 2000 residents between the four

what it hopefully does is to drive new commercial interest. 2000 residents near market rate are going to be college educated workers.
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Egg actly Flyingmember...a high density of people that can afford upscale market rent apartments should bring good commercial along with it. If you're doing a study and have a dense area of residents with median individual incomes above $40k you're in business. I actually hope it brings an upscale department store downtown but that is pie in the sky. Beyond my local haberdasher the only other place I do any real shopping is the plaza. Don't like driving from downtown out to the burbs to do it.
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