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.
AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:37 pm
My goal on Main in Midtown is to destroy the abomination of that suburban Home Depot
Google "Warner Plaza" for a depressing read on the more-or-less intact 1920s multifamily development that occupied much of this land. The complex was standing until 1990, which goes to show how late it was that the historic preservationists got any traction in KC.
Then again those beautiful apartment buildings near Richard Block Cancer Survivor Park got demolished, what was it, five years ago? And the Knickerbocker debacle happened since the pandemic began.
Warner Plaza had transient residents in the 1970s and 1980s (midtown used to be the poor part of town), so the buildings got blamed for the resident's problems and demolished. A wonderful jazz club, Jimmy's, also got levelled in that whirlwind of destruction. A totally authentic 1920s boite that the world will never know again.
BTW, Warner Plaza's 10 low-rise apartment buildings had I recall eight apartments each, plus another 20 in the five-story structures; Knickerbocker had at least 30, and the 20 units on the Plaza makes 150 units total. All of which could have been redeveloped as mixed-rate-plus-affordable housing.
That's the kind of thing that KC Tenants should be outraged about -- the vanishing of viable housing, not the fancy nature of new housing.
herrfrank wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:34 pm
BTW, Warner Plaza's 10 low-rise apartment buildings had I recall eight apartments each, plus another 20 in the five-story structures; Knickerbocker had at least 30, and the 20 units on the Plaza makes 150 units total. All of which could have been redeveloped as mixed-rate-plus-affordable housing.
That's the kind of thing that KC Tenants should be outraged about -- the vanishing of viable housing, not the fancy nature of new housing.
herrfrank wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:34 pm
BTW, Warner Plaza's 10 low-rise apartment buildings had I recall eight apartments each, plus another 20 in the five-story structures; Knickerbocker had at least 30, and the 20 units on the Plaza makes 150 units total. All of which could have been redeveloped as mixed-rate-plus-affordable housing.
That's the kind of thing that KC Tenants should be outraged about -- the vanishing of viable housing, not the fancy nature of new housing.
Add to that the destruction of Colonial Court by KCUMB and the apartment building on Paseo at 33rd.
Not to mention the countless buildings lost on the Eastside of the city as well as what's now East Village. No one bats an eye when we've lost so much of our history and housing stock but there are plenty of people willing to fight re because for a number of reasons.
