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Origin Kansas City's current design includes 118 rooms. Pending city approvals, the hotel hopes to break ground in early 2022 and open in early 2023, he said.

Port KC's board in late May approved execution of purchase and sale agreements for the hotel parcel, as well as another slated for an unnamed developer's seven-story apartment complex with 200 to 250 units.

normalthings wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:12 pm Kansas City Drawing


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FangKC wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:25 pm I'm not optimistic about the Riverfront ever being a truly walkable neighborhood.

atticus23 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:07 pm I’m all about the development along the riverfront and yet, nothing that has been built or proposed is any more exciting than suburban apartments. My wish for anything in the core downtown area (river to 31st) is bigger and denser. I know I’m beating a dead horse by saying this, so apologies in advance.

im2kull wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:40 am

atticus23 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:07 pm I’m all about the development along the riverfront and yet, nothing that has been built or proposed is any more exciting than suburban apartments. My wish for anything in the core downtown area (river to 31st) is bigger and denser. I know I’m beating a dead horse by saying this, so apologies in advance.

Same. The twin 10 story apartment proposal was the best, but it appears that's not happening. Omaha already has a better riverfront, with 20 story condos and what not. Ours is pathetic and the development occurring is something that should be occurring in a suburb of Springfield, not in KC.

normalthings wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:50 am

im2kull wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:40 am

atticus23 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:07 pm I’m all about the development along the riverfront and yet, nothing that has been built or proposed is any more exciting than suburban apartments. My wish for anything in the core downtown area (river to 31st) is bigger and denser. I know I’m beating a dead horse by saying this, so apologies in advance.

Same. The twin 10 story apartment proposal was the best, but it appears that's not happening. Omaha already has a better riverfront, with 20 story condos and what not. Ours is pathetic and the development occurring is something that should be occurring in a suburb of Springfield, not in KC.

Omaha’s tower in the park are not all that urban nor walkable.

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:45 pm Oh and for those that don't think urban recreation is a big deal. It's a very big deal in most large cities. I see it every week in DC alone.

However, I went to NYC this weekend and by far the busiest places in that city were recreation attractions. Central Park, the Highline and the Little Island all were just insanely busy with locals and tourists. And there are way more places than those places.

Just like I used to scream back in the 90's that downtown KC desperately needed urban housing when KC was doing almost nothing while most other cities has started building housing. The same is true for recreation. KC is a great city with so much potential. But urban rec is still a major missing component there along with urban jobs of course.

I'm just saying, I'm not putting down KC. I'm just pointing out what I think the city is missing. My son and his wife live in DC near the river and having so much nearby recreation is one of the main reasons (if not the main reason) they choose to pay high rents for the location.

Highlander wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:19 pm

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:45 pm Oh and for those that don't think urban recreation is a big deal. It's a very big deal in most large cities. I see it every week in DC alone.

However, I went to NYC this weekend and by far the busiest places in that city were recreation attractions. Central Park, the Highline and the Little Island all were just insanely busy with locals and tourists. And there are way more places than those places.

Just like I used to scream back in the 90's that downtown KC desperately needed urban housing when KC was doing almost nothing while most other cities has started building housing. The same is true for recreation. KC is a great city with so much potential. But urban rec is still a major missing component there along with urban jobs of course.

I'm just saying, I'm not putting down KC. I'm just pointing out what I think the city is missing. My son and his wife live in DC near the river and having so much nearby recreation is one of the main reasons (if not the main reason) they choose to pay high rents for the location.

It's definitely a shortcoming in KC and it partly is a result of having no true functioning urban parks other than Swope Park (which is too far removed from the urban part of the city to really be called urban). The amount of people that frequent Memorial Park and Herman Park in Houston is insane on weekends. Memorial Park didn't have all that much in terms of amenities (golf, an arboretum, tennis and lots and lots of trails) but middle class people lived very close to these park and the place was always packed.

OKC created some nice urban recreation along the the "Oklahoma" River (actually the North Canadian) adjacent to downtown. Some of the attractions would go well on the KC riverfront - particularly the whitewater stream for kayaks and rafts: https://www.riversportokc.org/

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:59 am Parcel 9 had a ground testing drill machine on it last night. Has that parcel had an announced plan?

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:45 pm Oh and for those that don't think urban recreation is a big deal. It's a very big deal in most large cities. I see it every week in DC alone.

However, I went to NYC this weekend and by far the busiest places in that city were recreation attractions. Central Park, the Highline and the Little Island all were just insanely busy with locals and tourists. And there are way more places than those places.

Just like I used to scream back in the 90's that downtown KC desperately needed urban housing when KC was doing almost nothing while most other cities has started building housing. The same is true for recreation. KC is a great city with so much potential. But urban rec is still a major missing component there along with urban jobs of course.

I'm just saying, I'm not putting down KC. I'm just pointing out what I think the city is missing. My son and his wife live in DC near the river and having so much nearby recreation is one of the main reasons (if not the main reason) they choose to pay high rents for the location.

DColeKC wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:08 am Agree and this is why I think capping 670 would be so transformative for downtown KC. Would be so great seeing that park busy with activity on the weekends.