KCRag Forum

Midtownkid wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 9:14 am I'm tired of the garage base - tenants above model. We need to be wrapping garages in usable building space so you don't see them and life is at street level. (Fang that may have been what you meant as Power & Light apartments are like this?)

I'm having trouble finding what was decided to do with BAP - which version was chosen that would result in the loss of 700+ parking spaces?

bspecht wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 4:37 pm Re 1200 Broadway: KC Southern rep spoke up in Business Session to say they have an interest in a partnership w/ City to build more than parking there.

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 5:47 pm

bspecht wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 4:37 pm Re 1200 Broadway: KC Southern rep spoke up in Business Session to say they have an interest in a partnership w/ City to build more than parking there.

Which means they’re going to ask the city to build the parking for a new building. But you’ll get public access on the weekend!!!!

A plan to build a city parking garage at 12th and Broadway that was narrowly defeated last month by the Kansas City Council has been resurrected with apparently enough votes now to be approved.
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Councilman Eric Bunch, who has introduced a resolution calling for the garage to at least be part of a mixed-use development, believes the purchase ordinance sponsored by Councilwoman Kathryn Shields could be approved by the full Council as early as Thursday.
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In a briefing to the City Finance Committee last month, Russ Johnson, chief capital projects officer for the city, estimated the cost of completely rebuilding Barney Allis Plaza and its underground garage at $60- to $70 million.

Johnson said the cost of rebuilding the Barney Allis garage could be reduced substantially if much of the replacement parking was shifted to the proposed conventional garage at 12th and Broadway.

He told the committee in November that a 500-space garage would cost an estimated $21 million.
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A smaller, possibly 300-space garage beneath Barney Allis Plaza would reduce the cost of its roof, although the city does still plan to renovate the outdated Plaza itself.
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FangKC wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:25 pm Isn't Kansas City Southern also still occupying space in 114 W. 11th Street (NE corner 11th & Wyandotte)? Maybe they want to move everyone out of that building and consolidate into one main building.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:18 pm So if we build a garage there, there will be a lot of pedestrian traffic (in addition to all the new housing blocks west that have next to no retail) and ground level retail would work great.

GRID wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:05 pm Who would want to live across from a massive convention center?

bspecht wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 4:37 pm Re 1200 Broadway: KC Southern rep spoke up in Business Session to say they have an interest in a partnership w/ City to build more than parking there.