KANSAS CITY INSIDER REACTION: JOCO COMPANY SOON TO RUN THE CITY MARKET IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO KANSAS CITY!!!



The reaction to a recent story about new management @ The City Market has been intense.

Ferruzza @ The Pitch recently provided this report: City Market is under new management in December

So far the promises of a "Prairie Village-based KC Commercial Realty Group" haven't met with much excitement. Instead, Kansas City Insiders note that the new management team contradicts so much talk about promoting biz within the city limits.

"The Mayor and Council have been so adamant about local economic development that they've overlooked this major stumbling block in their own back yard. Letting a Johnson County company run the City Market ignores so many years of tradition and history of this location that is one of the foundations of KC and all of Missouri," a Kansas City Insider says.

Furthermore . . .

"What does this Johnson County company know about doing business in the City Market? This move repeats the same mistake of so many Kansas City economic developments. Business leaders bring in these out of town interests that have no real appreciation for the flavor of districts they're managing and that history that makes KC unique is now at risk."

We'll wait and see if the new management group comes up with a new strategy to help bolster the City Market but for the moment the JoCo connection inspires skepticism from Kansas City Insiders.

Comments

  1. Anonymous11/28/12, 2:18 PM

    While I'm sure there are many valid reasons to complain about a Johnson County company managing a Kansas City business, the very fact that the management group is located in Prairie Village is not one of them. For all of Tony's "Perfect Village' tripe, the fact remains that Prairie Village is just technically not part of Kansas City. Here in PV, we are closer to lots of KC attractions than much of Kansas City. KC's doctors dentists, lawyers and so on live in PV (well, and Mission Hills, Leawood, etc.)
    You don't gain any particular insight on city limit defined Kansas City just by having an address there. Even many of the principles of Kansas City's storied firms/businesses actually have Kansas addresses. The deal is that a business address does not, in and of itself, guarantee anything.

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  2. Anonymous11/28/12, 2:18 PM

    Is this the same city hall that talks incesantly about regionalism and working together and having other folks help pay for all of KCMO's wonderful amenities?
    The marketing firm is from Prairie Village, not Afghanistan.
    Talk about parochial nonsense!
    Maybe if the folks at 12th and Oak would involve more "outsiders" in other decisions they make, like streetcars, they'd come up with some better ideas.

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  3. Anonymous11/28/12, 2:24 PM

    So the management company is located in Prairie Village wow a whole 15 minutes away from the City Market area.

    If KC MO didn't have suck crap leaders in City Hall and that insane e-tax crap this company just might have been located on the Missouri side of the city.

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  4. Anonymous11/28/12, 2:24 PM

    I would have to say that the fact that Prairie Village residents don't pay taxes in Kansas City, even though they use our amenities, is disqualification enough. Let them manage Prairie Village attractions. Bwahahahahaha!

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    1. Anonymous11/28/12, 4:26 PM

      Bwahahahahaha .....got anutter pube in yer troat ?

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  5. Anonymous11/28/12, 2:27 PM

    Uh, the dudes who were managing the market for Copaken left and formed their own company. They're the ones who will be running the market- still.

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  6. Anonymous11/28/12, 2:30 PM

    The Council and Mayor always talk local control ,l but when it comes time to walk the walk they choose a Kansas firm to run our most historic area. Lets just remember that at election time.

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  7. Orphan of the Road11/28/12, 2:57 PM

    Is this doubling down on P&L?

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  8. Anonymous11/28/12, 3:23 PM

    Sly is really focus on power grabbing but lets other things like control of the market just happen. Why would want a Kansas company to run our market with so many Missouri corporation needing help. We just lost AMC to them they dont any more help.

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  9. Anonymous11/28/12, 3:24 PM

    Wagner and Circo nice looking out.

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  10. Anonymous11/28/12, 3:36 PM

    Wagner and Circo are worthless and so is most of the city council.

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  11. Anonymous11/28/12, 3:49 PM

    Now that they will work more in KC that only increases the Earnings Tax.

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  12. Anonymous11/28/12, 4:25 PM

    Who gives a fuck? This deal will fail, just like everything else Kansas City gets involved in. Failed Royals, failed Chiefs, failed City Market. Watch.

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  13. Anonymous11/28/12, 5:12 PM

    They better watch out for that Steamboat.

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  14. Anonymous11/28/12, 7:12 PM

    So you want the same crew that is running 18th and Vine or Union Station. Hell, how can we loose by going outside? No one screamed when AEG took over the entertainment venues (and milked the livin' hell out of them).

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  15. Anonymous11/28/12, 7:17 PM

    These aren't outside. It's the same people that have been managing the City Market for years. They're just with a different company now.

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  16. Anonymous11/28/12, 11:20 PM

    Is single mom amateur stripper night coming back?

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