OFFICIAL - Flashcube (720 Main)
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Re: "Flashcube" Building - 720 Main
No windows in the bedroom of the 1br is an interesting move at ~$1400/mo.
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Re: "Flashcube" Building - 720 Main
One KC Place isn't a giant window the whole length up and it's nearly the same.beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:51 pmWhat?! The whole building is one giant window. I don’t understand.
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No natural sunlight to wake you up in the morning is really a drag IMO.
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On the other hand hangovers are much easier
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Sky on main and the buildings I manage have the same concept. People like it, but I personally could never.
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Re: "Flashcube" Building - 720 Main
And blind tenants, second most likely reason.flyingember wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:56 pmWorking the night shift and sleeping during the day seems like the most likely reason.
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I found an actual photograph of the American National Bank and the Kemper (smaller structure next to the bank) buildings taken in 1964. That garage to the right is the one that used to be north of the Flashcube Building and was demolished a few years ago.FangKC wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2016 10:34 amEon Blue wrote:And many of those buildings cleared by Tower would probably be in better shape and more coveted than the Flashcube today with a little upkeep and maintenance.FangKC wrote:I must admit something about Commerce Bank/Tower Properties constructing a nine-story building of this size downtown to be a "throwaway building" meant to last only 25 years really gets under my skin. Now it's blighted. So if you really think this through, Tower Properties cleared the North Loop because it was blighted, only to put up a cheap building that 43 years later is also blighted.
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That has to be a rare image. It must have been razed at about the same time as the old Board of Trade. The north loop could have been a 19th century brick historic district.
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And not just any 19th century historic district. It would've been punctuated with two excellent Burnham and Root designs. You can see both in this shot
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Re: "Flashcube" Building - 720 Main
Below: from left to right: The Postal Telegraph Building, the American National Bank Building, and the Kemper Building.
The middle building is the Kemper Building.
This is the Baltimore frontage showing the back of the Kemper Building and the Massachusetts Building. The building in the far background is back of the New York Life Building.
Massachusetts Building.
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I had no idea the Muse of The Missouri fountain was so old.
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She's the muse of the river, not the state. "The Muse of the Missouri." Monument to a Kemper killed in WW II.
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Being the Muse of the entire river and not just a mere state gives her a larger dominion that she holds sway over. Bring offerings and worship.
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Re: OFFICIAL - Flashcube (720 Main)
Saw their billboard on I-35 just north of the river.
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