TKC BLOG COMMUNITY TOLD YOU SO FIRST!!! FEAR THE UPCOMING DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED CONVENTION HOTEL DISASTER!!!
To finish the work week our AWESOME TKC BLOG COMMUNITY scooped every other news organization in Kansas City with FIRST word of the Mayor's dumb-ass and doomed taxpayer subsidized downtown convention hotel plan.
Sadly . . . None of the other media outlets are really highlighting the $35 Mil that Kansas City is going to have to pony up right out of the gate.
Mostly locals are focused on the pretty pictures.
Sadly . . . This project seems like it's gonna kill the skyline and it's already underwhelming most local leaders.
Nevertheless . . . Kansas City playing bell boy for a multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate is just another sign that this town doesn't have any other priorities than than lining the pockets of the ruling class.
Again, early in the afternoon OUR KICK-ASS BLOG COMMUNITY sent every media outlet in town into panic mode. Here's the noteworthy aftrermath that ensued . . .
KMBC: Reports: New convention center hotel coming to downtown Kansas City
KSHB: Kansas City leaders and development officials on Monday will announce the project.
KC Biz Journal: KC books 800-room downtown convention center hotel
Developing . . .
Why does the business journal website suck so bad?
ReplyDeleteAccording to CityLab, a think tank attached to The Atlantic Monthly magazine,
ReplyDeleteOver the last 20 years, convention space in the United States has increased by 50 percent; since 2005, 44 new convention spaces have been planned or constructed in this country alone. That boom hasn’t come cheap. In the last ten years, spending on convention centers has doubled to $2.4 billion annually, much of it from public coffers.
“It’s a very, very, very competitive thing,” says Susan S. Gregg, managing editor of Association Conventions and Facilities magazine, one of a large number of trade publications devoted to the convention industry. “All these cities that are so competitive are constantly having to upgrade and expand and improve.”
So if Kansas City built a convention hotel it would just be the latest comer to an already crowded market. Worse off, the convention industry is shrinking. Again according to CityLab:
But there’s a problem with this building bonanza, and it’s a doozy: There aren’t really enough conventions to go around. The actual number of conventions hosted in the U.S. has fallen over the last decade. Attendance at the 200 largest conventions peaked at about 5 million in the mid-1990s and has fallen steadily since then.
Congratulations to the new councilwomen Hall and Shields.
ReplyDeleteOh, and Sly, you should know that they are both bringing strap-ons and lube so bend over.
I and several other business men I know in this town use to all do conventions and trade shows every year. We all now do none. It isn't due to a lack of us no longer wanting to but the cost of doing such has risen to the point it's no longer affordable. Why Kansas City is now thinking we need to build such a mess is stupid to say the least. They way I look at it if it was such a money making affair Donald Trump or the likes would have been here years ago building just such a place. You tax payers in Kansas City soon will no longer be able to afford to live in that town. If the taxpayers vote back into office the idiots campaigning for this mess you are even bigger idiots than they are.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nightmare. It was just a few months ago that council members were claiming that they couldnt find $25M to demo Kemper for AR; now they're planning to extend bonds which were going to be paid off next year; I'll be retired before that additional $35M is paid off. Even worse, they plan to layer another CID on top of the existing downtown CID and TDD, which will push the sales tax to like 0.1357%.
ReplyDeleteDo we voters get a say on this?
ReplyDeleteYou sure do 8:47 vote all the current assholes in office out.
ReplyDeleteWhat about a racketeering lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteI'm being serious not joking around.
" . . . vote all the current assholes in office out."
ReplyDeleteAnd vote in a whole new set of assholes that neither you nor Tony will like and will soon be railing against.
They aren't seriously going to put up that ugly monstrosity are they?
ReplyDeleteUnfuckingbelievable.
ReplyDeleteYip another so called project by all the usual suspects.
ReplyDeleteAnother total crap shoot with taxpayer money. Does Troy have a gambling addiction? Other than that local construction workers will be happy. Until the next economic bust sinks the ship again.
ReplyDeleteI really like the building and am glad the city did all this behind the scenes and is ready to make it happen without discussion from the public. That’s the only way it would happen. This project is desperately needed and city incentives are justified.
ReplyDeleteIt is real clear to me that the ass clown bureaucrats down at city hall have way to much free time on their hands.
ReplyDeleteKC Urban planners missed the boat. Rather than east side grocery store and convention hotel, they should have built a toy train from the site of the east side grocer to the hotel. Throw an upscale grocery store in the lobby, which accepts EBT and SNAP and you've got something! Conventioneers love diversity!
ReplyDeleteWill it have any sky bridges like Crown Center had?
ReplyDeleteInteresting how Hyatt pulled out of the market a couple of years ago so it would be available to come back in with this.
ReplyDeleteWell, that pretty much destroys the view from those expensive south side condos in the P&L building. If I was Northpoint, I would be PISSED.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, we are hearing about the zillions of dollars worth of conventions "we lost" due to not have hotel space. True, we were eliminated up front. But it's not like we would have won them with more rooms. That was just a qualifier.
ReplyDeleteSo they are using BS numbers to mislead and justify their legacy to themselves once again.
The Crown Jewel of the city, The Plaza is allowed to wither and die in the usual paroxysm of Politically Correct stupidity, while we pony up jillions for another loser.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fuckin joke.
Well sure, we need this new hotel for all of the tourists that are dying to come to Kansas City to watch the NIGGERS... What a deal!
ReplyDeletePeople to understand business and politics in Kansas City, one needs to rent some DVDs like the The Sopranos and Goodfellas.
ReplyDeleteThere was an episode of The Sopranos where a man who owned a sporting goods store owed Tony a lot of money from gambling debts. To pay Tony and the mob off, he had to let Tony and crew run the store. They sold off assets and used the owner’s credit to run up his bills to his vendors until he was bankrupt. The mob sold off the merchandise they got by running up his credit. The same story was first used in the movie Goodfellas but in that scenario, it was the owner of the bar and the mob did the same thing.
Life imitates art. A new convention hotel is not about conventions, it is about the financial power elite, running out the city like it was a sporting goods store or bar in hock to the mob. They know in 10 years Kansas City will be as bad as Detroit or Baltimore and there will be no money for new contracts for more of their projects. They are making hay while the sun shines and then they will leave Kansas City for sunnier locations.
There is no difference between Uncle Sly and Tony Soprano or the hoods in Goodfellas except that what Uncle Sly is doing is legal and unlike those fictional characters, Uncle Sly is going to Congress in the end and not prison. Eventually the Power Elite of America will unite us all in poverty and nigger will no longer be a racial slur but an economic one and all poor people regardless of their color will be niggers. Yes I am a pessimists and I think nothing will change until the urban house of cards falls and then the rebuilding will start.
When was the last time this city spent tax dollars on anything that did not eventually end up in Burns and McDonald's bank account?
ReplyDelete9:48 Yep and that nice reception space on the top of Sporting KC's office is pretty well trashed now too.
ReplyDeleteKC, or CK ranks #41 in the top 50 meeting destinations in the United States.
ReplyDeleteI guess this architectural eyesore will help or something.
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ReplyDeleteit's hard to keep up; with all the things I need to be angry about in order to be a "must read" Denizen.
Hope they have adequate parking for my U-Haul.
You losers ever even begin to question your limits of influence?
Next.
Oh how you hate the people.
DeleteThe Mayor and his friends own this council. Look at all of the city money that has gone to lawyers, construction planners, engineers all of whom are huge contributors to Dick Davis, Sly James, Taylor and Wagner. All of this and our schools suck, the city is crumbling we are constantly in the top 10'most violent cities in the country and the we constantly underfund everything else in favor of James' projects. Keep listening to Sly and this city will be bankrupt. It may be too late to kick his ass out, but we have to bring in a new council to control him. Please give to those people.
ReplyDelete1:15 you sir have been baptized in the Jordan River of reason and you have seen the light. You have named Uncle Sly’s masters and I would add to that rogue’s gallery, the Kemper Banks. City Hall is Uncle Sly’s cabin. As that great Missouri born humorist, Mark Twain once said: “If voting was important, they wouldn’t let us do it.” Brother Sam Clemens once he become Mark Twain and famous, got the hell out of Missouri.
ReplyDeleteThat is the ugliest freaking piece of booze inspired design - bullshit I've ever laid eyes on.
ReplyDeleteLuckily for Sly and his court of city council rubes not many people are paying attention.
Zero citizens will get to vote on this $300 million deal.
ReplyDelete1:03: Who said you had to be a "must read" denizen?
ReplyDeleteYou can always take your U-Haul to another site.
Wait a fucking minute! We already have a glitzy building, right across from the sprint center, that would accommodate 800 beds: That big green glass monstrosity that The Star won't be using by 2018.
ReplyDeleteWhy build another? Just retro-fit that bitch!
Kansas City officials have always dreamed this cowtown with suburbs is some kind of destination.
ReplyDeleteIt's not. No natural resources worth visiting, a lousy cold winter climate. What? Union Station? A few just pretend riverboat gambling houses?
We dont even have good air service here. But we do have the promotional streetcar. That'll bring em in, all right!