Westport

[moderne]

The aerial photo of what was there prior to PVCC is shocking as is Summit before SW trafficway.

[Metro]

The aerial photo of what was there prior to PVCC is shocking as is Summit before SW trafficway.

Is that area pretty busy on weekend nights?

[FangKC]

The Old Westport wagon at SW Trafficway and Westport Road is being replaced with a replica since the old wagon has deteriorated so much.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10 ... 7623523375

https://fox4kc.com/video/westport-wagon ... y/9697531/

[moderne]

I honestly never knew that was an actual historic artifact. Hope they can keep the homeless out of the replica.

[Metro]

Terrible news about what happened this morning in Westport.

I was down there Friday had to do the little security screening thing. I noticed how there was no real security outside of the entrances. I think there just totally going to have to make it a 1:30 place

[brewcrew1000]

Terrible news about what happened this morning in Westport.

I was down there Friday had to do the little security screening thing. I noticed how there was no real security outside of the entrances. I think there just totally going to have to make it a 1:30 place

Aren't most of the issues just outside the district? Like people will just hang out by their cars and basically harass people and try to start stuff. It would almost be better if security just stayed on the premier. Once inside it's pretty chill

[Metro]

Terrible news about what happened this morning in Westport.

I was down there Friday had to do the little security screening thing. I noticed how there was no real security outside of the entrances. I think there just totally going to have to make it a 1:30 place

Aren't most of the issues just outside the district? Like people will just hang out by their cars and basically harass people and try to start stuff. It would almost be better if security just stayed on the premier. Once inside it's pretty chill

I think the problem is the trouble could easily find itself closer to where even more people are. I just don't see how security can solve the issue.

[KCPowercat]

Wasn't privatizing the streets fixing all this?

[smh]

Wasn't privatizing the streets fixing all this?

Speaking of privatizing, a friend shared a pictures this weekend of the sidewalk outside Kelly's where the bar has installed a fence to make the sidewalk their private patio. Totally wild that this is allowed in the middle of what should be a very walkable neighborhood.

[dukuboy1]

Westport needs to go a bit more upscale. Nothing wrong with a few bar only spots but more dining and entertainment mixed in beyond the "rager" college bars & want to be night clubs/dance bars. I'm sure we can all pinpoint the few places down there that attract an element that perhaps is not just looking to have fun but to start trouble of some kind. Sad that such a fun place has been marred over the years with violence, random, but frequent enough to always give the area a bad reputation for safety. Hope with more residents in the area it becomes more of neighborhood and creates less opportunities for these things. Stronger neighborhood with some money in the game to help force change.

[kcjak]

Westport needs to go a bit more upscale. Nothing wrong with a few bar only spots but more dining and entertainment mixed in beyond the "rager" college bars & want to be night clubs/dance bars. I'm sure we can all pinpoint the few places down there that attract an element that perhaps is not just looking to have fun but to start trouble of some kind. Sad that such a fun place has been marred over the years with violence, random, but frequent enough to always give the area a bad reputation for safety. Hope with more residents in the area it becomes more of neighborhood and creates less opportunities for these things. Stronger neighborhood with some money in the game to help force change.

It can't hurt to go more upscale, but it hasn't helped the Plaza. I keep thinking once they get more residential maybe it'll help but that hasn't mattered much, either.
Sidenote: what happened to the apartments they were going to build over the parking garage/Char Bar? Dead?

[FangKC]

KMBC Channel 9 News just reported a new gay club is taking over the former Karma space at 504 Westport Road. The space will include non-alcoholic mocktails for sober people.

https://www.queerconnect.org/qkansascity

[Sirius_Blue]

That location is cursed though

[kcjak]

KMBC Channel 9 News just reported a new gay club is taking over the former Karma space at 504 Westport Road. The space will include non-alcoholic mocktails for sober people.

https://www.queerconnect.org/qkansascity

And any time you get too many of the high-profile gays in one business venture it implodes. They're taking reservations for tours of the space to get ideas on what the community wants, but with the design team in place I'd be surprised if they don't already have a vision they aren't going to stray from.

I've always liked this space, tough, hoping for the best.

[dukuboy1]

Best of luck to them. I agree that space is cursed and really the only successful thing that was there was the old Stanfords Comedy Club, and that place had a wild history.

The location next to Kelly's, could make for some interesting evenings...

[atticus23]

Remember when this place was the Johnny Dare bar and they had all the lawn beers? So many phantom memories of this location in its many different iterations.