DColeKC wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:49 pm
Most of Baltimore is ghetto! LOL
Sort of but not really. Baltimore has a lot of good areas. Basically anything near the harbor. It honestly has more good higher density urban neighborhoods than KCMO does. But yes, it also has a lot of ghetto and crime too, just like KCMO does.
Again my only point is that downtown KCMO is already isolated from the west and north and really only has one option for it to be reconnected back to the city again and that is generally to the east. I personally feel like a baseball stadium, if done right, could help reconnect downtown to the east, but if you add in a football stadium, the massive footprint for the barely used venue and its parking lots (even if much smaller than TSC) will just be too much and create a gigantic barrier. But I have said that now a dozen times lol.
The NFL stadium doesn't need to be anywhere near downtown. Who cares if nothing is near it. It's used so rarely. Have you ever spent time near NFL stadiums in Baltimore, Cleveland, Pittsburgh etc They are nothing but gigantic dead zones. The cities look the same as KC on national TV, they show the stadium, they show the skyline. They show plenty of skyline shots when the Chiefs are on national TV.
The stadium doesn't have to be downtown and it shouldn't be downtown. Leave it where it is and clean up one of the primary entryways into metro KC (I-70 from the east) instead of letting it deteriorate. The TSC doesn't have to be a shithole area. The stadium area has the infrastructure of a rural area and has no landscaping or anything. And that's the fault of Jackson County and the city and the state.
Guess who would be in charge of infrastructure around a downtown football stadium right next to a crumbling I-70 and Paseo??? Why would it be any different than 50 years at the TSC?
And back to Baltimore DCole. At least Maryland properly maintains and has upgrades I-95 and and I-395 (which directly serves the stadiums). I can see it now, a new stadium in 2030 next to I-70 near Paseo along a stretch of 70 that STILL needs to be freaking totally rebuilt and has needed it since 1990.