Downtown Buildings with Activity
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Can we agree that the proposed signage is pretty garish? Otherwise, looks like a nice project. I hadn't realized the building was so empty.
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No worse than a lot of NOW LEASING banners slung onto apartment buildings downtown. The professional building and the courthouse lofts STILL have banners stuck on them
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In the seventies UMB had a lobby office in the ground floor and they "modernized" the lower floors by wrapping them in some sort of Disco aluminum. Would love to find a photo of this indignity.
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Sounds like Spokes will be moving
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So this building on Walnut AND The Aladdin are moving towards residential? That's rather exciting!
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There really should be a time limit on this type of temporary signage. Another great one is the sign across the top of Cafe Gratitude on SW Blvd that announces 'NOW OPEN' which has been up since 2012TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:41 amNo worse than a lot of NOW LEASING banners slung onto apartment buildings downtown. The professional building and the courthouse lofts STILL have banners stuck on them
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10th street east of Main used to be the "financial district" of KC -- UMB, Commerce Bank, Kansas City Title & Trust. Sad how it is now almost all empty.
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The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday approved a 10-year, 80% property tax abatement and redevelopment contract for a 57-apartment renovation of the Kansas City Title and Trust Building at 929 Walnut St. The development team, Exact Architects and MR Capital Advisors, would build the new units in the eight-story building's office space, now fully vacant, while retaining Spokes Café as a ground-floor retail tenant.
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Ah I read 1,500 restaurant and didn't see that.
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Not s building but anybody noticing how many fire hydrants we are replacing downtown? Can't be a bad thing I don't think I've ever seen so many replaced all at once?