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Also this week, a storage building immediately north of The Star’s headquarters will be torn down. Another storage building immediately north of that structure will be razed by the end of the month. The two buildings are being demolished to make way for more parking

staubio wrote: Looks like we end up with zero sum, or even worse off than we would have been should the Star had left things as they were.

Long wrote: I agree it sucks to see buildings being torn down for more parking, but your statement is just absurd.  When I get home I'll dig through my old photos and see if I can find anything from what this district looked like in 2002.

staubio wrote: I'm speaking simply of the difference between right before the press pavillion and right after.

nota wrote: You guys blow me away. The Star spends zillions of extra dollars to build their place in the DT area rather than in a greenfield place that would have saved lots of money and you are bitching over a few buildings for parking?!?!?!?!?

As for me-I think the Star should have built in the burbs and left the whole place DT to rot like they could have for all the appreciation folks have for their decisions.

LenexatoKCMO wrote: Nota - have you been to the northern xroads lately?  Take a look around and count how many surface parking lots there are sprinkled everywhere that have little signs on them that say "KC Star employee parking" - they are everywhere- some of them huge.  If a company is going to hold itself out as a great savior of downtown and promoter of the neighborhood (as the Star has done in countless self-promoting articles and even recently in a full blown sectional insert) have the decency to build a parking gargage for your employees rather than hundreds of acres of lots.  Hallmark and H&R Block had the decency to build garages for their employees around their downtown facilities rather than paving over the whole neighborhood - why shouldn't the Star be held to the same standard?  

nota wrote: Honey, I've had a private tour of the whole new facility inside and out. I know which buildings are being torn down, etc. They are not "hundreds of acres."

I saw nothing in the article or anything else they have printed that was "self promoting."

This whole thread is  just another "blow it all out of proportion" rant.

ignatius wrote: I think we all appreciate what the Star has invested downtown but two of the most destructive actions to the urban fabric is to tear down buildings and expand surface lots, worse to do both.  The Star of all people doing this is really sad if not hypocritical.  They could get tax breaks for building a garage if they try.