TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY 'EAST CROSSROADS' PLAN REVEALS MAYOR SLY WINNING LOW KEY CLOSE VOTE AMID DIVIDED COUNCIL!!!
Kansas City insiders are celebrating an early win for Mayor Sly that might have been unnoticed but deserves a mention nevertheless.
To wit . . .
CITY HALL WANTS TO SUBSIDIZE KANSAS CITY CROSSROADS SUCCESS AND PUSH IT EAST . . . A RECENT VOTE REVEALS SOME SURPRISING DIVISIONS AMID THIS TENSE AND COMPLICATED PROCESS!!!
First of all, the plan to push the Crossroads Eastward has been floating around all year . . . Without citing legislative examples, the local media celebrates the effort and doesn't bother to ask real questions about how it would work. In one article after the next the idea gained steam without any specific inquiries about how the real estate developers would profit or how the public would benefit.
Now . . .
Here's TKC FIRST WORD of this plan getting some real world legislation to back it up and a strange vote that started the process . . .
Take a look @ Ordinance #150593 . . . It's a convoluted plan with a consultant's report that might be one of the worst that local insiders have seen in quite some time. Still, the effort was supported unanimously out of committee and earned a very close 7-6 vote last week without any real reporting.
The Kansas City East Crossroads Urban Renewal Plan is sketchy at best but the most interesting part of the discussion is Mayor Sly winning a razor thin margin of victory wherin 4th District reps disapproved for reasons that aren't entirely clear.
The development scheme is run of the mill stuff for Mayor Sly but Councilwoman Heather Hall voting with him (at first in committee) on this plan with very little detail was kinda surprising for some yet encouraging for supporters of the Mayor. Meanwhile, it's clear that in the urban core/Midtown and Inner City Mayor Sly now has very little influence.
Bottom Line . . . The effort to connect Crossroads to 18th & Vine and the East Side is more of pipe dream than a real plan but early on, it's only fair to score yet another tax subsidy victory for Mayor Sly James.
Developing . . .
Who is paying for these plans? There is your answer.
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ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome project. The illustration/rendering looks like a wonderful place for the whole family -- to be robbed, assaulted, raped or murdered.
Looks like Heather is showing some political moxy. She supports a project in the hood....getting some suck up from Sly Negro, all the while knowing her Northland enclave is safer if more of the shadows stay in the hood.
ReplyDeleteBeware whenever politicians step in to make better something they weren't involved with in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThe Crossroads thrived without consultants, planners or tax subsidies. How many other areas might do the same without city interference and subsidies for the undeserving.
ReplyDelete7:25 is right, of course.
ReplyDeleteBut what else does the elected gang in KCMO have to do other than grandiose announcements and eco devo "projects"?
They pay no attention to maintenance of streets or bridges, couldn't care less about un-maintained and ever-increasing costs of water and sewer systems, spent a little time on homicides, but have now lost interest in that, and really don't even care about how the streetcar project is being handled or the details of the public money being committed to the new hotel.
Pandering and giving away other people's money never goes out of style.
So who wants what next?
This east Crossroads project sounds as though it needs a new organization with an executive director and some funding.
Any unemployed former council members or activists around?
ReplyDeleteCrossroads: Organic Growth...NO consultants...Thriving Business...SOME Tax Subsidies (new development).
18th & Vine: FORCED, Badly Planned Development...Dozens of Consultants...NO Profits...NO Thriving Business....100% Subsidized!
Yeah, this will work.
The area wiil develop on its own,regardless of Sly's influence, or tax plan.
ReplyDeleteHold on to your wallets y'all your property taxes are going to rise.
Keep an eye on Sly's pet poodles Heather Hall and Jolie Justus. . The'll ruber stamp anything.
The consultants and hangers-on will continue to dream up the most ridiculous of plans, if you can call it that, and the Kansas City taxpayer will continue to fund these misguided attempts at using development to cure racial disparity. It has never worked and won't ever work. You cannot legislate commonsense or people's beliefs. That's what ISIS is trying to do and beheading anybody in their way. Sounds like another well-thought out plan from Sly James and the racebaiters.
ReplyDelete7:25 is tight. The Crossroads came back because of individual effort, not tax abatements and subsidies. And what did the city do? They hiked taxes in the Crossroads so high the original pioneers had to move. No good dead goes unpunished by our local geniuses.
ReplyDeleteUmmm. That should be "right," not "tight." And "deed" not "dead," although brain dead could apply to our local "representatives."
ReplyDeleteCrossroads: White people with money and ambition.
ReplyDelete18th and Vine: vile disgusting crude ugly smelly muh dik subhuman NIGGERS.
The predominantly black areas cannot be redeveloped due to high crime and low incomes. I wish it were not so and I know it's not politically correct to say it. But do we just throw millions of dollars away so we can pretend reality does not exist?
ReplyDeleteBetter to work on crime and create a better jobs climate than to keep trying to waste money on something that's impossible.
Some of the most idiotic comments on here. Makes it easy to say these things when you post as anonymous
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This project could do good for 18th & vine and crossroads.
Crossroads? WTF is that? Crown Center has been annihilated so will the next pretty place.
ReplyDelete12:57: Crossroads was pretty rough when the pioneers started moving in.
ReplyDelete18th & Vine is worth supporting.
ReplyDeleteGoing with Sly on this one.