KCRag Forum

trailerkid wrote: I've heard that at the new ESPN Zone in the Staples Center development it will have a television studio. ESPN would be foolish to not include something similar in a KC location-- the Sprint Center could be used as a live backdrop.

pittsburghparoyal wrote: For what purpose?  The Big 12 tourney that we'll have every 3 years?

Arena Ball?

KCN wrote: The parking lot on the eastern half of that block now is gone....and the hole in its place looks pretty deep from what I can tell on the CIMO webcam.  Maybe scooter can verify.  Also now the Grand side is lined with the white fences that line the other blocks under constructiion.  So it looks like this one is well underway.

There's not an underground garage planned here, correct?  I've made myself look like an idiot by asking this question on two threads now but I double checked this time .  If not, this may be our first actual P&L block to see construction of entertainment/dining/shopping venues.

KCN wrote: Now I see why they're digging that deep.  To remove the foundations of the buildings leveled for that loathsome parking lot.

Long wrote: Wasn't the purpose of urban renewal to tear down old buildings with the intention they would be replaced by something newer, bigger, and better?  Or was it their intention all along to just make parking lots.  Because it seems odd that they wouldn't have dug up the old foundations when they originally tore down the buildings, unless they had no intentions of ever building on those sites in the first place.