FangKC wrote:Just a side note, there is a small section of Jackson County that is north of the River--the area where highways 291 and 210 intersect.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.185167,- ... 7&t=h&z=14
I had no idea. Factoid for my day.
FangKC wrote:Just a side note, there is a small section of Jackson County that is north of the River--the area where highways 291 and 210 intersect.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.185167,- ... 7&t=h&z=14
Kaskaskia Island is part of Illinois, but west of the main channel of the Mississippi. There is also a portion of Illinois land west of the Mississippi adjacent to Perry County.chingon wrote:Political boundaries that follow old river channels that no longer line up with the riverway is actually pretty common. There is at least one part of Missouri (Browning Lake, and old oxbow, and Rosencrantz airport))that is west of the Missouri River across from St Joseph, and in the Southeast corner of the state the actual state lines kind of dance around the current Mississippi river channel and follow older lines. There is a even a section of Kentucky directly across from New Madrid that is totally surrounded by MO on 3 sides and Tennessee on the other. None of it even shares a border with the rest of Kentucky.
A controversy over the boundary between Missouri and Kansas is made the subject of a 1949 act (Laws of Missouri 1949 page 311) wherein it is provided that "the center of the channel of the Missouri River, as its flow extends from its intersection with the fortieth parallel, north latitude, southward to the middle of the mouth of the Kansas or Kaw River" shall be the boundary between such states. The act was not to become operative unless Kansas enacted a similar law relinquishing sovereignty over lands lying on the Missouri side of the center of the channel, within two years from its effective date. The corresponding Kansas law appears in General Statutes of Kansas of 1949, sections 82a-521 to 82a-527. (1955) Where island, formed on Kansas side of Missouri river, as a result of a channel change during the flood of 1944, became attached to Holt County, Missouri, it became a part of Holt County under Laws 1949, p. 311, and corresponding Kansas and federal acts. Hall v. Hudgins (Mo.), 277 S.W.2d 637.
Here is the section of Missouri that is west of the Missouri River channel near St. Joseph. The airport is on this section of land.chingon wrote:Political boundaries that follow old river channels that no longer line up with the riverway is actually pretty common. There is at least one part of Missouri (Browning Lake, and old oxbow, and Rosencrantz airport))that is west of the Missouri River across from St Joseph, and in the Southeast corner of the state the actual state lines kind of dance around the current Mississippi river channel and follow older lines. There is a even a section of Kentucky directly across from New Madrid that is totally surrounded by MO on 3 sides and Tennessee on the other. None of it even shares a border with the rest of Kentucky.
I love how you can trace the old flow of the river in that satellite image.loftguy wrote:FangKC wrote:Just a side note, there is a small section of Jackson County that is north of the River--the area where highways 291 and 210 intersect.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.185167,- ... 7&t=h&z=14
I had no idea. Factoid for my day.
These will blow your mind. We have three printed and framed full-size.smh wrote:I love how you can trace the old flow of the river in that satellite image.loftguy wrote:FangKC wrote:Just a side note, there is a small section of Jackson County that is north of the River--the area where highways 291 and 210 intersect.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.185167,- ... 7&t=h&z=14
I had no idea. Factoid for my day.
I wonder how this would affect Zona Rosa especially in the summer, and winter months. I was there on June 26th and it was hot that day, and I noticed the shopping center was pretty much dead at the time that I was there. I also noticed that the trees there are not yet mature enough to provide much shade, and there are not enough green spaces.
A social media report that Trader Joe’s is coming to the new Metro North mall is feeding the hopes of Northland fans of the popular specialty grocery chain.
But the mall’s developer, MD Management Inc., says there’s no deal yet.
“We are talking to every major tenant about our projects in the Northland, but no announcement is imminent on the (Trader Joe’s) subject below,” the company said in a written response to questions about the Facebook report. “Therefore, we do not have a comment at this time.”
"People say the lifestyle center is the mall of the future," Hayes said. "But if you poll the public, you will hear the opposite."
The shopping public demands more climate-controlled retail experiences, he said. But the new Metro North Mall, which will get a new name due to the negative perception attached to the current one, "won't be your grandmother's mall," Hayes said.
To compete with Internet shopping, next-generation malls must include attractions that generate excitement, he said. Hayes said MD Management was still researching the types of attractions to include at Metro North but mentioned two — a courtyard for events in front of the new mall and a theater/entertainment complex behind it — during Wednesday's meeting.
He also shared PowerPoint slides of the new mall concept, which calls for 900,000 to 950,000 square feet of retail space within a curved mall layout and pad sites.
Except it's more of a double strip mall now. There's very little mall left.KCMax wrote:Ward Parkway is a rather successul indoor mall renovation.
Or go out of business completely by the time it breaks ground.KCtonic wrote:Wonder what happens if Macy's back out of this Metro North "plan". They are now officially closing their Metcalf South store http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/08/47 ... ation.html
Probably got tired of waiting at Metcalf South.KCtonic wrote:Wonder what happens if Macy's back out of this Metro North "plan". They are now officially closing their Metcalf South store http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/08/47 ... ation.html
Isn't that the only Macy's in the Northland? I'm sure there's other viable sites (as our resident oracle will tell you, no doubt).KCtonic wrote:Wonder what happens if Macy's back out of this Metro North "plan". They are now officially closing their Metcalf South store http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/08/47 ... ation.html