Is Midtown Marketplace one of the city's greatest blunders?

[Riverite]

Does anyone have pictures of what the area looked like before?

[FangKC]

That area was called Warner Plaza before.

https://kchistory.org/islandora/search/ ... pe=edismax

[Riverite]

That area was called Warner Plaza before.

https://kchistory.org/islandora/search/ ... pe=edismax

Thanks I appreciate that, just realized I'd only heard about it never seen it. So tragic.

[FangKC]

Here are some more:

The Kimo Theater was south of 33rd Street on Main.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8904

Milton's Tap Room was a famous nightclub on Main between Linwood and 33rd Street.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/45106433743627942/

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1204 ... st=gallery

https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/dig ... 2854/rec/3

https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/dig ... 2854/rec/1

https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/dig ... 2834/rec/2

https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/dig ... 2841/rec/1

https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/dig ... 2369/rec/1

https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/di ... 2370/rec/3

https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/dig ... 2371/rec/5

[FangKC]

This building is where Milton's Tap Room was located. Main Street frontage.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1245.photos/?sp=3

Main Street frontage showing the Kon Tiki Room.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1203.photos/?sp=1

Same building, but Miller Plaza frontage.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1245.photos/?sp=2

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1245.photos/?sp=4

Linwood frontage.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1238.photos/?sp=1

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1238.photos/?sp=2

[langosta]

How do I delete someone else’s comment

[Riverite]

How do I delete someone else’s comment

I consistently feel that with anything goonies posts

[chaglang]

Costco is great. Ditto Home Depot. Some of the tax revenue goes to a home improvement fund that has done a ton of good work in the surrounding neighborhoods.

The land use is bloated and sucks. I wish we had the apartments and small stores that were torn down. But the Costco and HD are undeniably assets. All that can be true.

[Riverite]

No one is even arguing that they are bad stores, just posting pictures of what use to be there. What an absolutely ridiculous discussion.

[chaglang]

Forget it, Jake. It's the internet.

[missingkc]

I was in Milton's once. Nice memory. Does anyone else remember his daily ad in the Star classifieds? "I'm not mad at anyone. Come back to Milton's on Main."
Saw 'I Am Curious Blue' At the Kimo.

[FangKC]

Right next to a dispensary...

Is this the dispensary?

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0682863 ... 384!8i8192

[FangKC]

Dunkin Donuts going in on Linwood.

Is this where the Dunkin Donuts in going?

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0682435 ... 84!8i8192

[KCtoBrooklyn]

Yes, that's the dispensary. Looks like it is getting close to opening.

I believe the Dunkin was planned for the lot just to the east of Taco Bell. I am not certain if it is still moving forward.

[DaveKCMO]

Offensive comments deleted.

[normalthings]

Costco is great. Ditto Home Depot. Some of the tax revenue goes to a home improvement fund that has done a ton of good work in the surrounding neighborhoods.

The land use is bloated and sucks. I wish we had the apartments and small stores that were torn down. But the Costco and HD are undeniably assets. All that can be true.

I'd like to see some of that land become a stop for the street car. Eventually it will go east and going down Linwood would seem to be the play.

There was an alternative to split at Union Station and take Gillham South before heading east.

[kenrbnj]

When constructed in the late 1990's; the Midtown Marketplace was considered a "intensive redevelopment" to an area harboring an immense perception problem.

Yes, today M.M appears to be a skin graft of North Antioch, Gladstone onto South Main, KCMO.

That is an illustrative point: It is my belief the "skywalk" system of Crown Center was to insulate suburban visitors from the "wild west" of the street.

[alejandro46]

My problem isn't with Costco or Home Depot. I love shopping at Costco.

The problem is the huge ass surface parking lot. At the time, there was minimal forethought beyond just getting development in the core. If we had to re-do, the developers should have structured parking along with mixed uses in this parcel to densify and urbanize the area. Agreed with Kenrbnj, it's a lazy development that could belong in any suburb in KC or the US.

[flyingember]

My problem isn't with Costco or Home Depot. I love shopping at Costco.

The problem is the huge ass surface parking lot. At the time, there was minimal forethought beyond just getting development in the core. If we had to re-do, the developers should have structured parking along with mixed uses in this parcel to densify and urbanize the area. Agreed with Kenrbnj, it's a lazy development that could belong in any suburb in KC or the US.

What gets me is Costco doesn't have an entrance on the NE corner. It's not like the idea of multiple entrances was brand new at the time.

It requires everyone to walk around the building and enter from the parking lot side.

[earthling]

My problem isn't with Costco or Home Depot. I love shopping at Costco.

The problem is the huge ass surface parking lot. At the time, there was minimal forethought beyond just getting development in the core. If we had to re-do, the developers should have structured parking along with mixed uses in this parcel to densify and urbanize the area. Agreed with Kenrbnj, it's a lazy development that could belong in any suburb in KC or the US.

Don't have an issue with these at all but the pad sites surrounding these need to be redeveloped into sidewalk front commercial properties with housing on top. Would hide the big box stores while we benefit from them. I suspect it's just a matter of time. Proper redevelopment wouldn't happen w/out streetcar presence.