TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FAILING TO REPURPOSE MIDTOWN BLIGHT BUILDINGS!!!
And this is the way the KCPS has broken more promises to find alternative uses for schools they abandoned . . .
THANKS TO THIS AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS FOR DETAILS ABOUT REPURPOSING GONE WRONG IN MIDTOWN KANSAS CITY!!! CHECK THE DEETS!!!
Here goes:
"Basically the Westport High and Middle School proposals appear dead in the water. It's been six months since the August 2012 public hearing. and KCPS and the two developers (KC Sustainable Development Parnters and Foutsch) are playing games about scheduling a new hearing"
"The next hearing was supposed to be Jan. 12 but got cancelled the afternoon of the district's last business day of 2012 allegedly because of "fiscal cliff" new market tax policy uncertainty. Then it was supposed to "mid-February" and two weeks ago it was "no later than the second week of March". (TKC NOTE: The next hearing is scheduled for April 6th but no confirmation from both parties on that)"
NOW CHECK EXCLUSIVE DEETS OF REAL SCALING BACK OF THE REPURPOSING HOT MESS . . .
"KC Sustainable Partners (BNIM) has said they are scaling back their proposal from $78 million to $40 million, but they haven't provided details . . . A growing number of homeowners fear that they will bail on their proposal like they did on Bryant school or bring in another developer with a mixed record like Dalmark like they did at Swinney. Overall, they may be overextended given that have a lot of their plate like Westport Presbyterian rebuild, Bancroft school etc. Foutsch seems just willing to sit it out and won't press the issue."
As always . . . There's more than enough blame to go around:
"The district is also the other source of delay. Their excuses seem to range from federal funding, the sequester etc. Also, some on the school board do not like KC Sustainable Partners idea of having a private or charter school as part of their plan."
And of course biz concerns are coming into play . . .
"Block Real Estate, the brokerage that has a virtual monopoly on closed school listings, may be focused on moving along those school repurposings plans where they are likely to get the quickest and highest commission rates, which goes up to 8-10% on the smaller schools and is only 5% for the bigger ones. See attached contract from KCPS. "
Most important of all . . .
"Every month these two buildings are idle costs taxpayers the equivalent of three teacher salaries in upkeep..."
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KC is dying.
A pre-paid funeral arrangement is most economical.
Did you think kc board would keep their promise?
Then shame on you.
Hey, I got a great idea. Why not sell off some of those long-abandoned buildings on commercial corridors to developers who might build something like, say, a brand-new supermarket.
Oops. I forgot. Tony doesn't like that idea either.
Selling them is not the problem..its getting fair market value and the developer having a plan to benefit the community in the long run not just flipping the building to make a profit and abandon the project.
Personally, I say just tear them down and make green space.
They need to tear these buildings down if nobody wants to buy them. These aren't historic or significant architecturally and they are filled with asbestos. In my book, DATS TREE STRIKES HOMEY
true dat.
This tipster is an idiot.
Things went to shit in the 70's when some brainiac(s) decided to start bussing. Didn't matter if there was a perfectly good school up the street, as it became urgently necessary to start putting kids on a bus that would take them clear across town so we could have, um, racial equality of some sort. Had this not happened, KC would still have some of the finest schools in the country. Letting these buildings go to shit was a HUGE mistake.
idiot or not. In the long run the facts will prove this tipster correct.
look at the record of repurposing. There is no progress. demolition is the best hope because nobody wants these buildings. The closing of schools didn't follow a real plan.
If you have a buyer. step up. but only other schemes are coming up. What's the plan? That's what I want to know. They just keep hoping that something turn up and it's not going too. The buildings don't serve a purpose other than schools and when a walmart wants to move in, the neighbors say no.
KC school district never had a real plan to get rid of these buildings. It was all just double talk,
Turn them into prisons.
Wrong again blue tango. Without good schools that are full, they have to build more prisons. Schools are cheaper.
Instead blaming the district, how about naming the guy in charge of this and roasting his ass. There is an individual not doing their job, call his ass out. That might take a little work, but I am busy in the classroom everyday and don't have time to worry about this real estate issue.
This should come as no surprise. BNIM bails on about every development they get into.
Real estate? How could this be successful when one of the people that would have some say in this cant even manage his own real estate (because he has none.) There's one woman that provides a roof over his head, another woman that was paying for his office in the Crossroads, yet another woman that buys him groceries from TJ's, and another that he uses for her memberships. And these are just the women that are fairly common knowledge-- who knows who else might be out there.
Airik is a user. I cannot wait for his karma to smack him upside his head.
Fact Checka is an idiot. Didn't even bother to read the stupid comment.
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