OFFICIAL: The Legends at Village West

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Walked the Legends shopping district for the first time in quite a while and was shocked at how much the property on the whole has deteriorated. Trash everywhere and overall condition is in some pretty rough shape. Hopefully, they have some capital improvements dollars socked away because it needs a facelift badly.
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MidtownCat wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 6:05 pm Walked the Legends shopping district for the first time in quite a while and was shocked at how much the property on the whole has deteriorated. Trash everywhere and overall condition is in some pretty rough shape. Hopefully, they have some capital improvements dollars socked away because it needs a facelift badly.
Haven't been there in ages. Heard the fountain isn't functioning anymore. True?
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Drove past on I-70 yesterday and noticed a construction crane up in The Legends area. Anyone know what's going up?
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beermestrength wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:27 am Drove past on I-70 yesterday and noticed a construction crane up in The Legends area. Anyone know what's going up?
probably this
https://www.lukedraily.com/Projects/legends-267/
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GRID wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:04 pm
beermestrength wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:27 am Drove past on I-70 yesterday and noticed a construction crane up in The Legends area. Anyone know what's going up?
probably this
https://www.lukedraily.com/Projects/legends-267/
8 story 'Mid Rise Urban Apartments'...if they built this in the river market or mid-town, they'd call it a high rise!
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Critical_Mass wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:17 pm
GRID wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:04 pm
beermestrength wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:27 am Drove past on I-70 yesterday and noticed a construction crane up in The Legends area. Anyone know what's going up?
probably this
https://www.lukedraily.com/Projects/legends-267/
8 story 'Mid Rise Urban Apartments'...if they built this in the river market or mid-town, they'd call it a high rise!
All the fastest growing cities are doing it by sprawl, not building their city cores anymore. It’s sad.
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AlkaliAxel wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:37 pm
Critical_Mass wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:17 pm
GRID wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:04 pm

probably this
https://www.lukedraily.com/Projects/legends-267/
8 story 'Mid Rise Urban Apartments'...if they built this in the river market or mid-town, they'd call it a high rise!
All the fastest growing cities are doing it by sprawl, not building their city cores anymore. It’s sad.
Nashville and Austin are building up….
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normalthings wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:48 pm
AlkaliAxel wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:37 pm
Critical_Mass wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:17 pm

8 story 'Mid Rise Urban Apartments'...if they built this in the river market or mid-town, they'd call it a high rise!
All the fastest growing cities are doing it by sprawl, not building their city cores anymore. It’s sad.
Nashville and Austin are building up….
Austin yes (always the one exception somehow) but this decade so far Nashville isn’t growing nearly as fast as they used to. They’re doing relatively well but still not the same.
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Nashville took a major hit when they failed to pass Let’s Move. Despite it, dozens and dozens of towers are still in pipeline
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normalthings wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:58 pm Nashville took a major hit when they failed to pass Let’s Move. Despite it, dozens and dozens of towers are still in pipeline
Yeah, I was going to say. You can spin the data all you want. Nashville is sill building tons of towers and has tons more in the pipeline.
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Critical_Mass wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:17 pm
GRID wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:04 pm
beermestrength wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:27 am Drove past on I-70 yesterday and noticed a construction crane up in The Legends area. Anyone know what's going up?
probably this
https://www.lukedraily.com/Projects/legends-267/
8 story 'Mid Rise Urban Apartments'...if they built this in the river market or mid-town, they'd call it a high rise!
lol. Also every single suburban development in metro KC is labeled "mixed use". If you toss a drive through bank pad site in the parking lot of an apartment complex it becomes mixed use.

I wonder if this KCK project is using incentives. I would imagine so. Basically everything out there is using incentives in some way or another. I also wonder if they are providing any affordable housing. Too lazy to look it up.
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This quote from the builder made me laugh
Legends 267 LLC would own the apartments, The Star reports. Riverside-based Luke Draily Construction has helped plan the project, and Kansas City-based Beck Cal Development is helping to build it.

“Kind of picture maybe a Two Light downtown except a little bit of a smaller version of that,” said Bob Becker, founder and president of Luke Draily Construction.
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Downtown Nashville is less than half downtown KC population. They better keep building if they want to kick it with the bigger kids.
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KCPowercat wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:31 pm Downtown Nashville is less than half downtown KC population. They better keep building if they want to kick it with the bigger kids.
Their suburbs are mostly what's propelling Nashville. Their downtown grew at a lesser rate than the Nash metro overall- still doing well but it's just the truth. KC's was the opposite where the city grew better than the metro overall. Which is why I was saying in another thread that I think alot of the suburban mindset is shedding here now.
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You guys are nuts. You are ignoring all the other development in downtown and urban Nashville. Hotels, office etc. I'm not sure how they define "downtown", but they have a shit ton of high rise residential going up just outside of what is their CBD.

I get it. I remember when Nashville was nothing compared to KC. But that's just not the case anymore.
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Big shiny crap alone a good downtown does not make. You can have a very economically "strong" downtown and still have it turn out like Houston
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Nashville doesn't even feel like a real city. Its real strengths are office space, Vanderbilt, and being the state capital. Its completely void of pre automobile density and real charm, the exact opposite of Kansas City.
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I didn't say Nashville was better. KCMO is a much more charming and higher quality place to live with more legacy big city amenities. I'm just seeing people try to talk down what is happening there and that's just silly. It may end up like Houston or Atlanta etc, but it's growing and will likely soon leave KC in its rear view mirror as far as being a relevant metro in this country.

That doesn't mean it will be better. I would choose KC over places like Houston and Atlanta in a heartbeat.
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GRID wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 4:07 pm I didn't say Nashville was better. KCMO is a much more charming and higher quality place to live with more legacy big city amenities. I'm just seeing people try to talk down what is happening there and that's just silly. It may end up like Houston or Atlanta etc, but it's growing and will likely soon leave KC in its rear view mirror as far as being a relevant metro in this country.

That doesn't mean it will be better. I would choose KC over places like Houston and Atlanta in a heartbeat.
But it is a fact that Nashville, like almost every "fastest" growing metro, is gaining mostly through suburban growth
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