Take a look at the next phase of Kansas City urban development talk that focuses on building upon the only real success story Downtown and then offering better infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians.
Lewis Diuguid: Connecting Crossroads, downtown with 18th & Vine to require new cultural bridges
Remember that we talked a bit about this plan before the election . . .
Here's the argument and money line . . .
"But making the distance more appealing to people wanting the nightlife should include a streetcar line along 18th Street after the new 2.2-mile downtown starter rail line is running in 2016. The new streetcar line could continue past 18th and Vine streets to Prospect Avenue to tie into the Metro bus service and then go west past the Crossroads to the West Side, creating a new bridge between Kansas City’s rich ethnic communities."
Actually, if we're talking economic development . . . The streetcar going to 18th and Vine makes more sense BUT that's not the plan and one of the reasons the special voting district rigged election was easily defeated by opponents.
Now, you decide . . .
SHOULD KANSAS CITY FOCUS TOY TRAIN STREETCAR EFFORTS AND CROSSROADS COLLABORATION EAST TOWARD 18TH & VINE?!?!
After decades of seemingly endless subsidy, the plan could finally be the climax of the effort to FINALLY make the historic district self-sufficient.
Developing . . .
Still trying to prop up 18th & Vine with more taxpayer money going down the black hole. With the Star and Diuguid's blessing of course.
ReplyDeleteHave any of the "urban planners" or other boosters of connecting 18th and Vine with the Crossroads ever actually walked across 18th Street between the two areas, even on a First Friday evening?
ReplyDeleteDidn't think so.
The Hendricks article in the Star even mention a FREE shuttle bus.
KCMO must have Oprah Winfrey as the mayor.
the ethnic communities are rich when it comes to household income
ReplyDeleteLet Lewis pay for a little toy train extension.
ReplyDeleteDA TOY TRANIZ HAWLIN NIGRAS ROUND DA HOOD? AWWSUME!!
ReplyDeleteEndorsed by The Slyster City Star
ReplyDelete2 + 2 = 5 when the situation warrants.
ReplyDeleteIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
ReplyDelete“It’s visually unappealing, that short stretch,” said Crossroads neighborhood association leader David Johnson. “There is no destination.”
ReplyDeleteWell then take your horseshit and go Davey BOY!!!!!!!!!
Go back to Kansass where you came from!!!!!
The only thing that could possible "save" 18th and Vine, would be to rid it completely of NIGGERS. But then, all you'd have is an intersection of two crappy streets, in a crappy part of town. No, there's no answer so why not just burn the fucking thing down?
ReplyDeleteThis is the last thing in the world Crossroads needs. There is one reason and one reason only that one area fails and another thrives: The people. Crossroads attracts a non-violent crowd who have money to spend and want to have a good time. Are they all mostly white? Yep. The Jazz District is surrounded by a shitty neighborhood full of violent people not looking to have a good time all the while looking to ruin other people's good time. Are these people black? Yep. Look at the shootings around 18th & Vine the last few years. Another thing. The Crossroads grew slowly, organically, by people who invested their own money and time into something that other people wanted. The Jazz District was rammed down the taxpayers throats by Cleaver and paid for by taxpayers who don't go down there, don't want to go down there, and will never go down there. Funny, having Cleaver and his band of grifters rob you pisses people off. There is hardly any reason to go there more than once. You go to the Negro League HOF and you pretty much never need to go back. The Black Archives building? What a fucking joke. The money skimmed off of this area has to be in the millions.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me? The very last thing horse shit boy and his band of merry hipsters want is to link the precious free streetcar to Prospect. (Free rides for eastsiders? No thanks.) All they talk about is building it out to the Plaza and UMKC and how existing buses are good enough for the east side. (No Prospect MAX for you, peasants!) Obviously Lewis did not clear this editorial with Sly and the hipster hucksters.
ReplyDeleteAs with most Real Estate, it's the location. 18th & Vine is just NOT a place people with common sense want to be. Why go in harm's way?
ReplyDeleteIn honor of 18th and vine, let's sing to the tune of that great hit from the 50's Kansas City. .
ReplyDeleteI’m going to Kansas City,
Kansas City, here I come
I’m going to Kansas City,
Kansas City, I’m bringing my gun
I hear they got crazy brothers there
And I’m going to ice me one
I might hop a freight train
I might hijack a plane
But if I have to carjack a honkey
I am going get their just the same
I’m going to Kansas City,
Kansas City, I’m bringing my gun
I’m standing on the corner of 18th & Vine
With my Kansas Baby and my Glock 9
I’m going to Kansas City,
Kansas City, I’m bring my gun
I hear they got crazy brothers there
And I’m going to ice me one
Agree totally with 4:21. Only thing that will save 18th & Vine is getting rid of the blacks. Anywhere there are blacks, there is failure. History is proof that statement is totally factual.
ReplyDeleteTotally Einstien
ReplyDeleteAnytime you have architects, pundits and pols mixing it up around a student project in the ghetto you gotta ask yourself: who's on the take?
ReplyDeleteIn this case, I'm guessing a couple of newly-minted architects looking to drum up biz for their firm.
5:28 is correct.
ReplyDeleteLewis Duigiud is a parasite, just like most blacks.
Been to the Vine lots of times-- Blue Room, Danny's, The Gem -- never had anything even approaching a bad moment or trouble of any kind. Usually head to the Green Lady after, and the drive on 18th is a little drab and dreary, but not scary.
ReplyDeleteThe jazz down at the Vine is a KC treasure -- hell, an American treasure -- that people need to go see for themselves.
There are lots of places in KC where I won't go at night --- 18th & Vine isn't one of them.