TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! WITNESS ANOTHER VOICE AGAINST THE WAL★OCAUST IN WALDO AND WORRIED OVER THE FUTURE OF WORNALL!!!
Kansas City neighborhoods have been ignored by elected officials and the political elite in this town for quite some time. However, as much as anything else the people of Kansas City are worried about living conditions and the impact of political choices on their quality of life close to home.
To wit . . .
LET'S START THIS SATURDAY WITH A BIT MORE COMMUNITY CONCERN REGARDING THE POSSIBILITY OF A BIG-ASS BOX STORE IN WALDO!!!
Check this important testimony . . .
"I appreciate your time and investment in informing the families of Waldo of what the School District is contemplating. I do not want to see Wal-Mart coming into the neighborhood just like it bothers me tremendously seeing all these used car lots up and down Wornall. Wornall, between 75th and 85th street looks horrible. No landscaping doesn’t help either. When you look at the businesses that have opened up in the last ten years, it begins to worry me about how safe this neighborhood is going to be and just what kind of clientele will be visiting. Personally, I would prefer the school be torn down and make it a practice field for sports. The more green, the better the neighborhood will look."
To try and be fair . . . Folks on the opposite side of this issue cite other biz in the area which seems just as bad if not worse than the cheap Chinese product distributor.
And even this AWESOME TKC READER PERSPECTIVE admits that the argument in Waldo regarding the so-called "WAL★OCAUST" is really about too much consumer biz density and lack of green space in one of our last Kansas City working class enclaves.
Finally, . . . Many reveal that this discussion has more than a few racial and economic undertones . . . Let's face it, if the cheap box store goes up in Waldo - TKC will spend a lot more time in that part of town. So let's not ignore the fact that many people don't want more broke-ass Kansas City denizens in Waldo than those already picking up scripts @ CVS.
And so, neighborhood concerns might be ignored at City Hall but that doesn't stop a great many Kansas City residents from working to protect the areas around their homes from threats both foreign, domestic and quite affordable.
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Just jealous. TKC, see if you can get your filthy hands of the feasibility study.
Use the Landing Mall Troost & Myer Blvd.
What's being proposed is not a Wal-Mart. It's Neighborhood Market--a grocery store, and it's probably smaller than the Hen House that was enthusiastically (almost orgiastically) supported by the 'hood even though that proposal relied on all sorts of TIF and other taxpayer giveaways and the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market does not.
As for making the area a practice field for sports, THAT might invite just the kind of "clientele" the writer opposes.
Meyer and Troost would be a good place for a full-size Wal-Mart.
Maybe its like having an airplane mounted on a building in your neighborhood. Neighbors don't like it.
The only people who say things and post things about "the clientele" are Walmart supporters who are trying to make the opposition to the store racist.
The opposition is to Walmart. The opposition is to child labor. The opposition is to denying employees full time hours and a living wage so that a few people who have more money than their families can ever spend in ten generations, can have another ten billion bucks to play with.
I hope Wal Mart builds it. That area of Wornall is an eye sore. That school is an eye sore. Why not build a good quality store that people in that area would flock too? The store on 103rd metcalf is a good store.
Possibility.....Build the Walmart store and have a replica of the 5.6 million dollar jet the highway patrol just purchased in front of it.
So 8:05 you also don't have any Apple, Nike, Sony or Old Navy, Gap or any kind of jewlery?
I am required to have an IPhone for work but other than that the answer to your question is No.
And, just because I enjoy a drink after work, does not mean I have to use Crystal Meth, which the fucked logic behind your question implies.
I dont buy it. Peple dont want wal mary because they dont want ghetto or WT in their area. Even though its a grocery store. Child labor has nothing to do with it. 90 pwrcent of all clothing are made like that.
1/26/13, 8:42 AM
Complex thought is obviously beyond the faculties of a moron.
I have family who worked in a meat processing plant in Marshall Mo. In order to qualify for the price point that Walmart demanded, the plant had to bring in undocumented workers and run two sets of books. Food safety went to hell. Injured workers were simply deported. Walmart is a poison that sickens and kills everything it comes in contact with.
Typical, lose the agument so I must be a moron. Have fun with your iphone that some five year old made.
Now that Cathy Jolly is Jackson County Executive-in-waiting, I hope she will find a cure for economic catastrophe.
Umm Cathy Jolly...man I want to fuck her in her ass. Then cum all over her tits.
8:05: Did you read the "testimony?" The person who wrote it said, "...it begins to worry me about how safe this neighborhood is going to be and just what kind of clientele will be visiting." And this is an anti-Walmart person. (If it's who I think it is, anti a bunch of other stuff, too, including thrift stores and Aldi when it was first proposed.)
That was a choice, 8:48, both on the part of that processor to sell to Wal-Mart and for the people who worked there. If no one sold at prices that requre cheating, Wal-Mart and everyone else would have to pay more.
8:48's comment is really interesting to me.
I believe that is exactly what he experienced.
On the one hand, everyone, or most folks at first blush, are happy to go where the price is the lowest for the goods they want.
Some, will pay more at other locations, because of what 8:38 mentions and the idea of child labor and the many other negative things associated with Walmart that bring those low prices to Americans.
I totally get it. In a perfect world, we all would make our own stuff here in America, buy American (I always try to.) and support our American business'.
Couple years ago, on 60 Minutes, I saw a piece about some folks in Guatemala who were making shoes for Nike (This has been a while, I may have the company wrong, but the point is valid.) I think who were making .25 an hour. The working conditions were horrible etc etc. After 60 Minutes does the piece, the factory closes and I believe another news program went down there to interview them. They were pissed!! Now, the poor bastards had NO MONEY AT ALL! No hope nada.
Before ya go crazy, I am not saying that paying folks .25 an hour to work for cheap goods is the right thing to do, or the wrong thing to do.
I AM saying, that the global fuckin economy, concomitant with these moral, ethical and economical questions is fraught with dozens if not hundreds of variables.
There are so many different ways to look at the end result (low prices), the result of the end result (Walmart Stores and the ramifcations of proximity.) that an easy answer is out of the question.
One thing is for sure, no matter what side of the argument you are on with respect to this store, what you really want, is to return to the days when we bought stuff from our neighbors and American companies who built things in America.
Our politicains, captains of industry, global market forces, our instinctual conditioned attraction to the lowest price brings us now to the place, where we make, by the very nature of the question and it's variables, nothing but bad decisions, no matter what teh intent.
Just in case any Waldo libtards missed the memo, Walmart propped up your boy Obama with huge sums of cash for the campaign and is now financing the old campaign apparatus-turned-activist machine as well.
If folks actually cared about sweat shops and low wages for employees they don't know, they would advocate for better conditions in urban ghettos. Let's not kid ourselves. This is about race relations and nothing else.
Like Americans havn't spent TRILLIONS of fuckin dollars to try and level the playing field for kids in the Urban Core?
Total Bullshit.
Laws, legislation, Affirmative Action, social engineering efforts, welfare, SNAP/EBT etc etc etc ad nauseum.
If Americans had spent that kind of cash in Guatemala, every person in the country would own a home, drive a new car and the nation would probably have a Space Program.
Gimme a fuckin break.
Shit, with that kinda cash, there would be little brown men on Mars, not little green men.
The Hadron Collider would be in Guatemala City.
Too many car sales lots was the beginning of the end of Troost in the late 60s.
From Gregory to 85th, Wornall reminds me of Troost back in the day.
Lmao Chuk
Build the Walmart. The store is only 40,000 sq.ft.
Sorry far as I am concerned Wornall has never been a pretty street to look at.
In short it has always looked like a cluster fuck. The area is a classic example of what the lack of poor planning gets you.
Sorry but I can't not think a new Walmart Neighborhood Store not improving the look in that area. The store in Overland Park looks nice sure this will as well.
Now for those of you bitching about the look of the area should think of this. The area looks like it does due to your fathers and mothers maybe other family members and the local politicians. So see what happens when you don't give a shit about things and think the next person is going to deal with it? So if you care that much about things then get off your ass an make something of the whole area not just one place and maybe then your grandkids won't sometime in the future be bitching about the fucked up mess you left them.
8:57
That is just about all Cathy Jolly is able to bring to the discussion.
CJ asks the pharmacist if he sells extra large condoms.
The pharmacist replies, "Yes, would you like to buy one?"
CJ says, "No, but do you mind if I stand here and wait to see if anyone buys one?" My husband like Craig Glazer just has a 2 inch dick.
Hey, Superdave? Tell me exactly what planning mistakes they made in the '40s, '50s and '60s when the city began to expand south along Wornall.
To look back now and say, "Well, it didn't last forever, so it must have been poor planning" and saying that the people then didn't foresee societal trends they couldn't have possibly have predicted is 20/20 hindsight and pseudo-intellectualism at its worst.
That said, there is one constant with NIMBYs. They'll bitch about any major change planned for their neighborhood, then they'll flock to it once it is built.
Q: What do a lawyer named CJ and a sperm have in common?
A: Both have about a one in 3 million chance of becoming a human being.
And Iam out of here
The same planning mistakes they made in the '40s, '50s and '60s all the way up to Kemper Arena and Sly's Toy Train.
But see you don't get it do you? Planning is something you do all the time it never ends. You plan some more and adjust the plan as the years go by. But the residents have to be involved in it all or the politicians will swing with the money every time, or your money, rather the people like it or not. Funny how when people are against something they show up to a planning meeting by the hundreds. The rest of the time a planning meeting displays a no show and lack of interest by the residents of that area.
Ok Sly's Toy Train he wants to build and is going to. The supporters showed up all the time for it. But where were all the taxpayers who were against this thing at while all the supporters were there? They was all off somewhere pissing and moaning about it instead of getting off their ass and causing huge traffic jams and taking over city hall with their numbers letting the whole fucking world along with the Mayor and his gang of taxpayer thief's know they was against this. A move that could have very well ended the whole thing back then. But no fuck it, the taxpayers said I don't have time for meetings because I'm too busy sitting around pissing and moaning about it.
Boy do all of youse guys not shop at Walmart?
Well as the guy in the paper said. Not-so-Sly has a delightful way of scheduling meetings so we can't cover them all. It is not just apathy that wins the day it is the devious planning that schedules meetings with conflicting meetings and the placement of meetings when people who work can't show up on time.
Citizens could change that crap as well. Piss and Moan, Piss and Moan.
harley says
I've been to the walmart convenience stores. More like a
quick trip with customers coming and going.
And yes..eventually the clientele
will be minorities (black/hispanic)as they take over those areas.
I watched the evolution of the
walmart at 103rd and metcalf and now its mostly hispanic and blacks
going there.
They have no fresh items that are
any good and they have changed the
store to cater to the hispanic
market.
People...get ready. The changing
demographics of america are coming..like it or not.
Eventually, joco will be 30% minority. Get used to it.
Money is rolling this deal.
And remember as taxpayers we're
funding wal mart operations with
the fact that they offer no
health care to employees and when
they have to go to the er's
the taxpayers of america pay for that.
but again...the fact is that the
face of america is changing and
nothing can stop that.
1/26/13, 12:37 PM
No I do not shop at Walmart.
What about tucking her in the ass and blowing your load on her husband's face?
Stfu chucky.
STFU harley you ruined KCC you sure the fuck not going to ruin TKC
This anonymous post was made by the ignorant hippy's iphone
What does kcc stand for?
Kansas City Crap
Kansa shitty going down hill.
Save Wornall, Stop The Wal-Mart
Yes, superdave, planning is necessary. But I note you have no answer when I asked you to cite the specific "mistakes" made decades ago, and what the proper decisions would have been that would have made a difference in the Wornall Road corridor today.
That's because you don't know. You have no answers. All you want to do is "piss and moan" -- exactly what you accuse others of doing.
What a hypocrite!
As others have noted, it would also help if the host of this blog would spend 30 seconds doing the most rudimentary fact-checking to know what he is posting about before he goes off half-cocked.
And no, Tony, Wal-Mart isn't proposing a "big-ass box store."
Do your homework. It's called journalism.
Good point about the neighborhood market. However, a walmart supercenter at meyer/troost would be ghetto heaven. Youd have to have security guards in every aisle because troost/paseo/prospect violence would walk right through the front door.
805 is so amazingly clueless
SuperDave has the brains of
the chimp on his comment.
Well maybe the chimp has more
class and smells better.
@4:34Yes, superdave, planning is necessary. But I note you have no answer when I asked you to cite the specific "mistakes" made decades ago,
I did stupid you can't read I guess called poor planning and proper zoning. See that's where you prove what a retard you are when I stated what the issue and problems have been. So go fuck yourself with your stupid ass hypocrite comment.
Also 4:34 if you think I am going to sit and list every issue I know of in the past 40 years that was done wrong over there you are nuts. If it is your neighborhood and you care then get off your dead fucking ass and seek out these answers yourself. I sure as fuck not going to do it for you ya lazy dipshit.
Wow! "poor planning" and "proper zoning". Your own bitching is about a mile wide and an inch deep.
Here's some education for you, not that it will take.
That whole area of Kansas City didn't really begin to develop until the post-WWII housing boom. Wornall Road was always designed to be a major arterial, and the area between 75th and 85th was zoned commercial to contain retail to that strip, and to serve that basic neighborhood within walking distance from homes. Yes, stupordave, there once was a time when people actually walked.
Since you are obviously unaware, vast changes in the retail industry have occurred over the past seven decades, and a lot of those smaller stores didn't change with the times and went out of business.
And almost without fail, that land has been repurposed, with a lot of new construction.
Appparently, but of course without being specific, you object to some of the new businesses that have moved in, but what you are too ignorant to realize is that when a new business seeks to move into an empty spot already zoned commercial, there really is not a hell of a lot that "planners" can do about it.
But I suppose in your stupid mind, the alternative of empty buildings lining Wornall Road would be better than those new businesses moving in.
The decision before the city today is to rezone a vacant and non-tax producing property within that commercial strip into a brand-new, tax producing, and rather modesly sized (by today's standards) grocery story that will produce proterty and sales tax revenues as well as jobs.
Gee, what poor "planning" that would be!
"Sorry but I can't not think a new Walmart Neighborhood Store not improving the look in that area."
What I said you ignorant asshole but guess you can't read either.
Plus I have been in commercial realty development and new construction for over 30 years so don't try your copy and paste stupidity with me.
In fact you didn't read a thing I said but instead want to bitch about it because you're an idiot is all I can gather from it.
That area crumbled to shit when they started allowing business to build 10 feet off the street. They didn't modernize, bring in anchor tenant's. Haven't maintained the streets you want the carbon copy on the KS Side look at Johnson drive between Roe and Metcalf. They want a Wal-Mart too and taking the one from Roeland Park. Which let me tell you is not well kept.
Stupor Dave again proves
he's an idiot!
Please Dave..stfu!
You're showing your lack
of intelligence.
Let the money talk.
He's got more valid points
than you do!
Letting the money talk is what fucked up the Waldo area to begin with you idiot
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