Discuss items in the urban core outside of Downtown as described above. Everything in the core including the east side (18th & Vine area), Northeast, Plaza, Westport, Brookside, Valentine, Waldo, 39th street, & the entire midtown area.
>Waldo Partners, aka Hen House, terminated its contract to purchase the Bingham site in late Oct 2012. The district is currently assessing interest from previously short-listed teams. Once the district has additional information, it will work with the Tower Homes Neighborhood Association and the Waldo Business Association to provide an update to local stakeholders.
I had lunch there a couple days ago. The sandwich was pretty good but you could see they were still working some kinks out with the service. I would place it closer to a Jimmy John’s, Firehouse type place and better than a Subway, Goodcents type place. I’ll probably go back when I’m in the neighborhood and don’t feel like a Pizza 51.
Louie’s menu of “gourmet comfort food” includes pastas such as the 4 Pork Gnocchi, which has prosciutto, Berkshire pork shoulder, ground pork and Italian sausage slow-cooked in red wine and cream and served over pan-seared gnocchi. He also offers salmon salads and sandwiches such as the balsamic roasted portabello mushroom.
Waldo Partners, recently “terminated” plans for a Hen House, said Shannon Jaax, director of the repurposing initiative for Kansas City Public Schools. The developers did not give a reason, Jaax said.
kboish wrote:
Where are you hearing that from? That would be a big loss IMO.
It sounds like an appetizing project: Build a Whole Foods Market and 150 apartments on land just west of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Neighborhood residents get a trendy grocery store, students and faculty have more housing options, and UMKC acquires some new office space.
Done deal, right?
Not exactly. Four months after the development south of 51st Street between Oak Street and Brookside Boulevard was announced, no application for building it has been filed at City Hall
chingon wrote:Another big loss for an urban core neighborhood, courtesy of a vocal NIMBY minority.
Sounds like the 51st and Oak proposal is also teetering on NIMBY-tears right now.
To be fair, I'm not sure how much blame the neighborhood deserves. From an access standpoint, that's a pretty tough site.
Disagree 100%. Seems like a breeze to put a grocery store on the corner of two streets, one of which is essentially and unused minor arterial. Add that to the fact that the site is not even in a residential neighborhood, and I'm fucking baffled.
And fuck those Waldo people, too. They all have driveways to park in. Traffic is what streets are for.
Those are two side streets, although 77th cuts off at the trail and is basically useless. So then everything goes in and out on Wyandotte, which is certainly not wide enough to handle trailer deliveries and customer traffic. The late night deliveries alone would probably be enough to get the neighborhood's hackles up. The easiest alternative would be to connect to the Osco parking lot to the north and bring traffic in parallel to the trail. But that would (I think) require permission from the owner of that lot. If that doesn't pan out, you have to deal with the hassle of asking to cross the trail. Not a simple site at all.
chaglang wrote:Those are two side streets, although 77th cuts off at the trail and is basically useless. So then everything goes in and out on Wyandotte, which is certainly not wide enough to handle trailer deliveries and customer traffic. The late night deliveries alone would probably be enough to get the neighborhood's hackles up. The easiest alternative would be to connect to the Osco parking lot to the north and bring traffic in parallel to the trail. But that would (I think) require permission from the owner of that lot. If that doesn't pan out, you have to deal with the hassle of asking to cross the trail. Not a simple site at all.
Yes, I meant the Whole Foods site. The Waldo site is, I agree complicated. I would love to see it incorporated into a redo of the SE corner of 75th Wornall...but that is pretty much pipe dreaming. Either way, I'd love to see something done with that site.
