TKC EXCLUSIVE: RUMOR HAS IT CORDISH IS GOING TO SUE IF THE P&L DISTRICT CAN'T KEEP THEIR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE WHEN IT COMES TO DRINKING IN PUBLIC!!!
TKC EXCLUSIVE: RUMOR HAS IT CORDISH IS GOING TO SUE IF THE P&L DISTRICT CAN'T KEEP THEIR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE WHEN IT COMES TO DRINKING IN PUBLIC!!!
As of now, the P&L District is one of the few if not the only place in Kansas City where patrons can take an open-container of booze outside.
Obviously, this is a HUGE ADVANTAGE as the weather gets warmer. Recently, several small businesses have stepped up to try and level the playing field and fight for their existence.
True to form, Cordish (A Baltimore Company) could care less about the economic well being of longtime Kansas City businesses.
A SPECIAL THANKS TO TKC TIPSTERS WHO HAVE INFORMED THE READERS OF THIS BLOG THAT CORDISH HAS SENT OUT AN ULTIMATUM TO OFFICIALS AT CITY HALL IN AN EFFORT TO KEEP THEIR EXCLUSIVE OPEN-CONTAINER PRIVILEGE!!!
The memo has three main points that all intend to stifle any competition by working against a "Festival District Bill" that could mean more places in KC allowed to host open containers - Westport, Crossroads, etc . . .
The details of the threatening letter are already working their way around the local, legal community . . . Here's some of the highlights sent my way:
1. KANSAS CITY'S SUPPORT OF A FESTIVAL DISTRICT BILL COULD LEAD TO A LAWSUIT!!!
2. While it's not written down anywhere, Cordish claims Kansas City is bound to make sure that Electric Avenue is the only place where people can enjoy a beer outdoors - That sounds fair OR like a great example of a company trying to run this town for their best interests.
3. The final insult: Apparently, Cordish loyalists are saying that the Festival District Bill is "motivated solely by individual political contributions to individual Council persons."
Without question Cordish is acting as if they own this town and efforts to thwart small businesses and other entertainment districts prove that they don't have the best interests of Kansas City in mind in addition to that fact that their move to intimidate legislators in Kansas City seems sleazy.
I drink in public all the time, I just use a brown bag.
ReplyDeleteTony, do you think you can get a copy of the memo and post it on your blog?
ReplyDeleteYou can blame good ol' Kay Barnes for this crap. She bent over big time for Cordish. See what happens when government has a stake in something that is normally a private enterprise affair. Government just doesn't know how free enterprise works - and they never will.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused. Is it that the small businesses want to allow drinking outside near them or to shut down Electric Avenue's outdoor drinking?
ReplyDelete"Cordish loyalists are saying that the Festival District Bill is "motivated solely by individual political contributions to individual Council persons."
ReplyDeleteISN'T THIS HOW IT ALWAYS IS
Trust me on this on, the people pushing to expand this priveledge did not contribute to Council candidates. This is an absolute fabrication on Cordish's part.
ReplyDeleteBack when Cordish was trying to shut down the Grinders venue in the Crossroads through back channels one of their lieutenants. said that they will fight competition in every market they are in using every means necessary - including politics.
As I have followed this issue I have seen Cordish reps lie repeatedly to prevent anyone else from competing.
Disgusting.
Good 'ol giveaway Kay really sold us down the tracks on this one.
ReplyDeleteNow the company that stands to make millions off of this debacle is suing the city so they can make millions and shutter local businesses.
Why can't we get an anti-power and light district movement going?
ReplyDeleteDo it now before your favorite dive goes out of business!
g'bye jillys as well i'd rather et cornbread than listen to cornwall i says we should be able to drink the parks as well wouldn't it be splendid?
ReplyDeleteg'bye jillys as well i'd rather et cornbread than listen to cornwall i says we should be able to drink the parks as well wouldn't it be splendid?
ReplyDeleteI hope we can drink in the crossroads again.
ReplyDeleteA way of fighting Cordish would be to launch an investigation to see if they violated the City's affirmative action program in contracting like their neighbor, H&R Block did. If they did, they would have to reimburse the City. The way the City has sold out the minority community suggests it could be millions.
ReplyDeleteFox 4 has a copy of the letter.. it was on the news at 9 and 10
ReplyDeleteNot only did Kay screw us all, she got PAID for it. Cordish execs have contributed $8000 to her campaign for Congress. Why don't we hear about THAT on the evening news?
ReplyDelete(I hear AEG has paid her off too. Someone should pull her reports and take a look!)
"Now the company that stands to make millions off of this debacle is suing the city so they can make millions and shutter local businesses."
ReplyDeleteIs that how the smoking ban got passed?
You idiots. KC finally has a good thing going and your worried about the poor bastards that have been around the city for years and years without innovation or regard to making their establishment entertaining.
ReplyDeleteThat is why corportations succceed and small business fails.
If the business leaders in Westport had any vision, they would have put a fence around the district and charged admission to come in. No cover charges anywhere, nightly entertainment, quality dining and drinking in the streets!
The "good thing going" can keep going just fine without a special State Law that no other area can benefit from. The overt attitude of entitlement shouldn't be rewarded at the expense of every small business district outside of Downtown.
ReplyDeletePersonally I hope Westport gets the liquor license. Then it can reclaim its place as the shootout and gang zone. Woo hoo! Drunks shooting and stabbing with no hope of security to stop it!!!!
ReplyDeleteWahr I ken get sum 'citement and drink outside at the Kansas Speedway. I can bring sum of my hooch in with me too. Party all night in the parkin' lot for free.
ReplyDeleteFucking city morons.
You idiots. The Cordish Company is doing something that none of your precious small business's have. They are taking initiative. Ok, and to all you losers that keep saying that Cordish only cares of Cordish because they can drink on premises, you can drink outside on the P&L District because the outside area is called The Livingroom, or the KC Live block and it isn't any different that if you went to a bar. That what the entire premises are.
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