This week has been a battle betwixt the big promises of Mayor Sly James and developers vs. the reality of troubled times for local retail and grassroots political push back against a slate of taxpayer subsidized projects.
To wit . . .
CHECK THIS EXCLUSIVE TKC TESTIMONY TONIGHT FACT CHECKING TOURIST NUMBERS THAT DON'T REALLY ADD UP DESPITE POLITICAL AND MEDIA CELEBRATION!!!
Here's an accounting of fuzzy math from the creeps @ VisitKC:
"I've been thinking about the 24 million visitors to KC last year. That sounds really high. If you take 24 million and divide it by 365 . . . You get 65,000 visitors a day. Really?"
Thanks to this AWESOME reader who put the numbers in perspective and exposes fuzzy math used to sell taxpayers one bright shiny toy after another.
And so, this perspective inspires us to agree with City Council leaders who push back against the Mayor's big money promises, lament the inevitable decline of the Country Club Plaza amid a changing retail and tourist landscape and realize that so much press release reporting by an institution receiving overwhelming tax breaks from City Hall is part of an overall corporate agenda threatening to bankrupt Kansas City.
And all this has inspired tonight's playlist . . .
As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe and fun Saturday night.
I guess I would like to see more questions to these creeps at the press conferences for all of these openings. BUT, the public doesn't care enough about the coverage to merit it. Most people just want to take selfies.
ReplyDeleteI blame the schools for adults and children not knowing how to do math.
ReplyDeleteNo one to blame but Sly James for highwoods leaving, Polsinelli wants to take over the Plaza and Sly colluded with them to make the deal happen and force out the owner. Wait and see.
ReplyDeleteThey lie about everything else, why not lie about this too?
ReplyDelete24million. That means New York City must see about half a billion. Using the same logic, Bejing probably averages a trillion. Yep. Makes sense to me.
ReplyDeleteUsing the 24 million number of tourists even half of those would have paid for Power & Light
ReplyDeleteI guess we really are a major league city, but only in terms of major league debt.
ReplyDeleteYou know, if we can't trust the city to be honest about the tourism numbers then how can we expect them to be honest about anything else?
ReplyDeleteThat's some impressive division by one of your "AWESOME" readers.
ReplyDeleteIs upper case and all bold as special as a TOY TRAIN?
This Tony guy has a real way with communication.
Thats the point 6:42 they can't be trusted.
ReplyDeleteHi Superdave! How's Tony's asshole tasting? Good?
ReplyDeleteI was down on the Plaza today and it was so crowded I thought it was going to inevitably decline right then and there.
But I didn't see any niggers, so I think it'll survive.
HAVE A SAFE AND FUN SATURDAY NIGHT IN CKMO!
ReplyDeleteKANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Kansas City police are involved in a standoff on the far east side of the city.
Chief Darryl Forte said in a tweet that negotiators are trying to make contact with a suspect or suspects wanted in connection with an aggravated assault.
Forte said the suspect(s) are inside an apartment in the 87 hundred block of East 7th street.
The standoff began around 8:00 p.m..
Stopping for Gas, slurpie and a lotto ticket off i70 is not exactly tourism
ReplyDeleteNYC gets 56 million tourists every years. I gues we only get about half or that... Who compiled those numbers?
ReplyDeleteI think it's 2.4mllion NOT 24 million.
I am drunk
ReplyDeleteKansas City = Detroit
ReplyDeleteDetroit is much better. Check it out. Their corrupt Mayor went to prison.
ReplyDeleteThese facts don't confirm my uninformed opinon. Ergo, they must be wrong. I am a white man with the internet, after all.
ReplyDeleteThey're not yet established as facts, 5:52. If you think the facts are true as stated, give us your bases for that conclusion. Otherwise, it's only your uninformed opinion.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^^^^^^ Give me $ 20.00 worth of that !
ReplyDelete5:52, are you honestly saying that you believe that 24 million visitors came to Kansas City last year? Think about that for a minute. Do the math. Make it work in your own head and then explain it to the rest of us dullards.
ReplyDeleteI guess they must be counting connecting flights, Amtrak trains passing through, bus station traffic and semis and vacationers coming through on I-35 and I-70 on their way to real destinations.
ReplyDeleteAlso everyone flying over the city.
ReplyDeleteI live in the metro on the Kansas side. Sometimes when we go to see something at the Sprint Center or the Music Hall, we will stay at the Hotel Phillips and make a mini-staycation out of it. I wouldn't consider myself a tourist as I am drawn by a specific event, not the city, but I am sure for these hype merchants I am counted as one.
ReplyDelete6:06 pm, where do you park your armored car when you stay downtown ?
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