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flyingember wrote:
I'm betting they have the land picked out for a site and the first major donor that gets them to something like 10% of their funds and the land purchase. or something similar to that.

try and use it for "peer" pressure to get more donations. apparently 70% of donations come because of peer pressure

hey, look at what happened

UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton estimated at least $20- to $25 million in additional private donations needed to be raised. The major show of support by Kauffman however, should signal to other philanthropists in the region that the UMKC Conservatory proposal is worthy of their support.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/26/43 ... rylink=cpy

Two potential locations have been identified for the proposed downtown Conservatory, both bordering the Kauffman Center. One site is east of the center and covers two blocks roughly from Wyandotte and Main streets from 16th to 17th streets. Kauffman controls more than half that site, which is currently a vacant, landscaped property.

The other location includes sections of the blocks at the northwest and southeast corners of 17th Street and Broadway. It also has room to the south for expansion on land owned by DST Realty currently used as a community garden.

flyingember wrote:
I'm betting they have the land picked out for a site and the first major donor that gets them to something like 10% of their funds and the land purchase. or something similar to that.

try and use it for "peer" pressure to get more donations. apparently 70% of donations come because of peer pressure

UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton estimated at least $20- to $25 million in additional private donations needed to be raised. The major show of support by Kauffman however, should signal to other philanthropists in the region that the UMKC Conservatory proposal is worthy of their support.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/26/43 ... rylink=cpy

Eon Blue wrote:Does the three year match period mean that construction might not start until three years from now? I didn't see anything in the article about the timeline other than that. Hopefully they can get their ducks lined up sooner.

Eon Blue wrote:Does the three year match period mean that construction might not start until three years from now? I didn't see anything in the article about the timeline other than that. Hopefully they can get their ducks lined up sooner.

KCMax wrote:

Eon Blue wrote:Does the three year match period mean that construction might not start until three years from now? I didn't see anything in the article about the timeline other than that. Hopefully they can get their ducks lined up sooner.

I don't know how parallel a situation it is, but they began construction on the PAC before all the funding had been raised.

flyingember wrote:

Eon Blue wrote:Does the three year match period mean that construction might not start until three years from now? I didn't see anything in the article about the timeline other than that. Hopefully they can get their ducks lined up sooner.

I'd bet it's further out than that. They can't make a final plan until they have an actual dollar amount available.

loftguy wrote:

flyingember wrote:

Eon Blue wrote:Does the three year match period mean that construction might not start until three years from now? I didn't see anything in the article about the timeline other than that. Hopefully they can get their ducks lined up sooner.

I'd bet it's further out than that. They can't make a final plan until they have an actual dollar amount available.

Don't know flyingmember, the PAC construction started very, very soon after the match period.

FangKC wrote:I have a feeling that Julia Kauffman might donate the land east of the PAC. The design of the building(s) will most likely have to be site-specific, so the land will come first.

flyingember wrote: as you can see, they had 7 years to plan before they broke ground.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City is looking for the state to ante up more than $95 million toward high-priority campus construction and building renovation projects.

On Friday, Curators approved making that request for funds along with requests for millions more in state money that would be used for 10 other building and renovation projects proposed by the three other UM System schools in Columbia, St. Louis and Rolla.

The requests are part of a long, systemwide capital improvement list that includes some projects that have been waiting on state dollars for years, said Bob Simmons, associate vice chancellor at UMKC.
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Simmons said the university hopes to use this same legislation to get the state to put in half the money needed to build its proposed $88 million Downtown Campus for the Arts. UMKC already has raised half the money needed to request a state match.

For any of these proposed projects, “ultimately it is the legislature deciding what to fund.” Simmons said.

But Wayne Goode, who chairs the Board of Curators, said it has been nearly a decade since the state has allocated money toward capital improvements on any of the campuses.

“The system currently has a $1.3 billion backlog in renovation and repair,” according to a report in Friday’s curators’ meeting information.

Simmons estimates the need totals about $300 million at UMKC.

“Every building on this campus constructed before 1990 needs work, repairs and renovations,” Simmons said.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/19/43 ... rylink=cpy

FangKC wrote:The other thing I would point out, that I was reminded of from the Kirk article talking about P&L 25 years from now, is the early start of the Plaza. Most people don't realize that J.C. Nichols almost lost the Plaza development to the bank in its' early years. Yes, The Plaza almost went bankrupt.