KC Biz Journal offers more detail about The Greater Kansas City Chamber Of Commerce Plan:
Greater Kansas City Chamber targets Troost Corridor for Big 5 initiative
Lots of meetings, a ton of local organizations and great press releases . . . The website looks fun:
http://www.big5kc.com/
We'll see if it works.
Oh good, let's target a dead area, that never will be viable and waste some more money on the Terry Rileys of the world.
ReplyDeleteFail.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, it's TROOST...the DMZ of Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteSecond: Why don't they finish what they start? TWO WORDS: BEACON HILL.
Third: The only ones who will benefit are the usual cast of criminials...Riley, Curls (all of em)-- all the way down the Freedom List.
Waste of time and money. 323 NAILS IT
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the list of the organizations on the "board", you'll find the same old grifters like Gwen Grant and Rev. Miles. And their wallets are open and ready to receive the load of money about to be dumped by the Chamber swells.
ReplyDeleteThese folks are so out of touch that they just never get it.
If it is all private money then they can knock themselves out pissing it away. But if there is one cent of public money then no way. Capitalism fills a vacuum. If there was money to be made there (aside from the 200 hair care places) businesses would set up shop. People with no money and no jobs cannot sustain the area, simple as that.
ReplyDeleteYes. I stopped reading the presser when I saw Urban League of KC. There is no way I will support anything or anyone stupid enough to enlist that old flatulent dirt bag of a woman named Gwen Grant.
ReplyDeleteI live East of Troost and you all might as well keep the money. She will fuck it up.
Great. Now all the resouces that *could* have gone into stable, viable neighborhoods that need just a little help getting over the hump will instead be dumped down the same shit hole that has given us one of the highest murders rates in the country.
ReplyDeleteAnd any success that might result will simply be a product of the displacement of the problems to surrounding areas.
Another fucking for the rest of KC.
The Chamber should just cut to the chase, give the usual suspects the money, and then hold their inevitable congratulatory dinner where they pass out awards to each other.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the next one of the Five Big Things from the Chamber? We should hope they load all of them up and move them out as quickly as possible.
Shouldn't be too much longer before one of the Big 5 pulls out and joins another conference.
ReplyDeleteHilarious.
ReplyDeleteThey did so well managing the resources in the limited area of 18th and Vine it only makes sense to expand the size and scope of the project area.
ReplyDelete7:54 I'm glad you brought up 18th & Vine. My old company did some work there. You have no idea what a waste of money this area is. I'm sure many people who read this have never been there. You should go and look for yourself at what throwing millions into a depressed area that cannot support itself does. All that is there is a bunch of empty storefronts that STILL have the signage Robert Altman put on them for the movie "Kansas City." How long ago was that made? The people who live in the area in no way support it. If you think this kind of thing revitalizes an area you are wrong. Everything might look shiny and new for a while but when private enterprise realizes they can't make any money the business close and you are just left with newer empty buildings that fall into disrepair that cost millions which could have been used for some good elsewhere. People who have been given everything have no appreciation for anything. And they won't appreciate what some do-gooders are trying to do for them either. While you are there head just a couple of blocks South and look at the "revitalization." Pack a gun and make damn sure your car doesn't break down there. I can't imagine the amount of money some people must have made off with from 18th & Vine. Has to be hundreds of thousands skimmed.
ReplyDeleteYou can build all the buildings and streets and sidewalks that you want in this area, but until there's some basic civil behavior, personal responsiblity, ans self-respect from residents, nothing's going to change.
ReplyDeleteAnd it would be nice if there were some leadership in the KCMO black community to help develop those characteristics, but what passes for that here is just the same old crowd looking out for themselves and their friends. And with serious Chamber money sloshing around, the feeding frenzy has already started.
The best you can hope for in this fiasco is having just a couple scandals as the money disappaears into thin air.
Gwen Grant needs more of your tax dollars for a new wig...it's bad enough to have creepy Clinton Adams as a bro.
ReplyDeleteThe World’s Symposium on Animals... The Urban Core Kansas City - a hole in the regional doughnut - 18th & Dying on the Vine.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the new zoo tax will help troost economic development. Isn't that what Gwen and Clinton are all about?
ReplyDeleteImagine, 8:36 described niggers to a tee, without even saying the word but then, he didn't have to.
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