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flyingember wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 12:09 pm

tskev wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:04 am Interesting thought, but I don't see any way in which a baseball stadium could fit there. You'd need at least two other blocks of parcels, right? A stadium would need 17th st to the highway and Grand to Locust to just fit the stadium without any type of parking structure.

the smallest stadium in the MLB would need four city blocks.

You could very easily fit a new stadium within a 4 block area. Look at Wrigley for example.

My dream of having awesome views while looking out over the outfield seating will never happen. Even if where the Star building currently is, there's not much besides city hall to look at to the NE. We are destined to not have views, so hopefully the best location in proximity to PNL and Crossroads is priority.

DColeKC wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 6:03 pm

flyingember wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 12:09 pm

tskev wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:04 am Interesting thought, but I don't see any way in which a baseball stadium could fit there. You'd need at least two other blocks of parcels, right? A stadium would need 17th st to the highway and Grand to Locust to just fit the stadium without any type of parking structure.

the smallest stadium in the MLB would need four city blocks.

You could very easily fit a new stadium within a 4 block area. Look at Wrigley for example.

My dream of having awesome views while looking out over the outfield seating will never happen. Even if where the Star building currently is, there's not much besides city hall to look at to the NE. We are destined to not have views, so hopefully the best location in proximity to PNL and Crossroads is priority.

Wrigley is 620 feet by 640 feet and 795 feet on the diagonal (that's the stadium, not the entire site around the stadium)

The possible east village stadium site at four blocks is 585 feet by 810 feet

So a stadium that's similar in size to Wrigley but more rectangular.


The recent proposal with the buildings in the outfield uses land 2.5 blocks wide

https://ballparkdigest.com/2020/01/31/p ... -ballpark/

It's 850 x 860. It's more than just the 4 blocks, the tiny block east of Charlotte is also in scope.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:13 pm It's 850 x 860. It's more than just the 4 blocks, the tiny block east of Charlotte is also in scope.

From the edge of the sidewalk on 10th to the edge of the sidewalk on 12th is only 815 feet

So they're taking traffic lanes to reach 850 feet

I knew better but I engaged anyways.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:54 pm I knew better but I engaged anyways.

Knowing that the project includes a road diet to reach that size is an important detail

I looked at the printed star yesterday and the entire front page was from a different news service. They didn’t write a single story.

I can’t imagine we’ll see the star in its current state for much longer.

Same for The Pitch. I just unsubscribed from their emails.

I'm really enjoying my subscriptions to the Biz Journal, CityScene, SM Post, Sunflower Journal, and Missouri Independent. Lots of excellent former Star reporters doing good work elsewhere these days without the corporate overhead.

The Beacon is another option. thebeacon.media

The pitch has become unbearable.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 12:38 pm The pitch has become unbearable.

I haven't looked at the Pitch for months. What is the issue? I've never really liked their actual reporting but I have enjoyed the KC centric cultural articles.

Me either. I was talking about their tweets to their stories.

The best of kc issue is all I've picked up and it's a ballot stuffing joke.

Cityscene, Missouri independent, and the athletic get me most of what I want and seem to care about journalism.

I miss investigative reporting, but it’s not like the star is pumping money into that.

Maybe kcur could step in there.

The Beacon engages in investigative journalism. Not day to day news. Check it out.

Not sure how long this has been up?

That’s not good

I hope the new owners don't just let this high profile building deteriorate.

Just received an insert in today's KC Sunday Star. The Star has begun printing in Des Moines, as have its franchised subcontractees (like the WSJ and Barron's). The implication is that nothing is being printed downtown anymore. The insert was included by the delivery guy btw, not mentioned in the Star itself.

He wanted us to know that the new delivery timeline will be 7:30am instead of the previous 6:00am because of the time it takes to truck the Star and the other newspapers back to KC. I gather it will roll from Iowa sometime around 2am. I wonder if this will affect the copy deadline as well.

Oh, no doubt it will. It's probably down to 8:30 or 9 p.m. now. Good thing nothing worth getting in the paper ever happens after that!

Star building goes up for sale

https://fox4kc.com/video/star-building ... e/6385650/