Downtown stats thread

Issues concerning Downtown as described by the Downtown Council. River to 31st Street, I-35 to Bruce R. Watkins.
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Downtown stats thread

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To start, a puff piece on state of downtown from CBRE...
http://cbre.vo.llnwd.net/grgservices/se ... e10da44038

And for metro as well...
http://cbre.vo.llnwd.net/grgservices/se ... 99b8e2ca0d

One interesting thing it claims is that daytime downtown population dropped to 82K in 2021 from 116K in 2019 due to WFH and perhaps impact of losing DST.
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Re: Downtown stats thread

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Downtownkc.org stats...
https://www.downtownkc.org/research-rep ... -kc-market

Claims 110K downtown workers, 31.6K residents in 2021, 38.6K projected for 2025.
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I believe it. Downtown was vibrant when I visited but I recall lunch time being much busier especially in good weather. The thousands of apartments that have been built arguably have saved a number of downtown businesses from going under.
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On the change in active daytime DT population drop I've looked for other CBRE market reports for 2019 compared to 2021 but couldn't find reports for a market that had both. Would think downtowns that have less portion of residential suffered more, KC's change not as bad as I'd expected from pandemic hit. Perhaps many downtown residents are also WFH with a non-DT job so helps offset 'daytime population' some.
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