SHOCK!!! AMID $100 MILLION INVESTED SINCE 1990: NOW KANSAS CITY 18TH & VINE DISTRICT PLEADS FOR $27 MILLION MORE FROM CITY HALL COFFERS!!!
The latest Kansas City 18th & Vine District request for funding was even more than initially anticipated before the Earnings Tax election victory.
Here's a bit of historical perspective that most of today's reporting is missing for this Throwback Thursday:
Here's How Kansas City Spent $100 Million At 18th And Vine Since 1990
Think about that one for a sec and when figuring out how to pay rising water and sewer bills.
Anyhoo . . .
Currently the entertainment is no closer to sustainability than when the project started more than a generation ago.
Remember that last year a quadruple shooting spree with hundreds of rounds fired punctuated a turbulent Summer season for the entertainment district.
Amid this latest plan touted by City Manager Troy Schulte along with Councilman Jermaine Reed and Quinton Lucas . . . Here's a few deets for the new plan:
"Some of the projects include $2.8 million for a new headquarters and performing arts space for the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, $1.3 million to upgrade the American Jazz Museum and add a cafe; $1 million to complete the Buck O’Neil center, the former Paseo YMCA; $3.9 million for new buildings and parking on the corner of 18th and Vine, with first-floor retail and second-floor apartment and office space; $5.3 million to replace dangerous buildings on Vine Street with mixed-use development."
Links . . .
Fox4: KCMO residents ‘jazzed up’ to hear plans to revitalize 18th and Vine District
Newspaper: City Manager, Councilmen Announce $27 Million Plan To Revitalize Vine District
Northeast News: "Noting the 30% increase in the District’s ask from city coffers to the $27.6 million mark, 3rd District Councilman Jermaine Reed noted that the extra amount will accomplish many of the original goals the district set forth upon its founding in 1990."
Congressman Cleaver: Congressional Jazz Resolution - Kansas City to be officially recognized as the “The Home of Jazz”
And so, we put it to our blog community . . .
WILL MILLIONS MORE IN SUBSIDY SAVE THE 18TH & VINE JAZZ DISTRICT???
You decide . . .
Totally makes that e-tax vote look smart.
ReplyDeleteWhat were the original goals of the district in 1990?
ReplyDeleteI remember that the fake store fronts were a disappointment since the facade was first devised for that shitty Robert Altman movie.
What happened to the 18mil they just recvd?
ReplyDelete^^^ That's the old request. Now they want to bump up that number to $27 million.
ReplyDeletei decide that it would be better for the people who matter,that it should be burnt to a crisp,nothing left.then build one liquor store and and a police sub-station.
ReplyDeletedon't put one more dollar into it.thats what I have decided for that district.
Kind of like throwing money at a corpse hoping it will revive itself and suddenly jump up and say wow thanks!!!
ReplyDeleteSo, Ollie doesnt have the money to finish his two construction projects. So the councilman offers up more taxpayer cash for friends. I guess I should have donated to a councilmans campaign.
ReplyDeleteSame old grifters
ReplyDeleteCash for the Cleaver fountain!
ReplyDeleteGuess we'll need to lay off more police, cut back on water line repairs, purchase an extra supply of metal plates.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, they'll figure out a way to keep Black people out of 18th Vine if investng all that money. The same for that urban ball park. They are not building that for Black folks. That is for the hipsters downtown. They will run out all the black folks by then to out south. Gentrification
ReplyDeleteEn masses.
What about the blacks who volunteer to be gentrified? These situations dont create themselves.
DeleteFirst the banks, now we are bailing Cleaver.
ReplyDeleteCleaver Bailout. Yup.
ReplyDeleteHow in the fuck do people in Kansas City Mo take this shit?
ReplyDeleteSeriously!!!
This is the very thing that makes the AA community and leadership look foolish. A few years ago the City rehabbed a few houses to the tune of putting 350k in a property which had a market value of 100K. Of course, all "local" contractors were used to do the work. It is a shame...
ReplyDeleteThere are no bad Robert Altman movies, you ignorant cunt.
ReplyDeleteHow many of the folks behind this failed project are behind bars? Oh, I forgot, this is Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteThe racket continues...
ReplyDeleteFunny they did not mention this until after the eTax vote.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they put market rate apartments there?
ReplyDeleteIt keeps "THEM" out...
ReplyDeleteNo! They will ask again for MILLIONS in less than a year. These criminals have expensive habits!!! Jesus Christ mother fuckin sonofabitch NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO !!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNext chance you get vote every one of these criminals OUT! It's the only way.
Not a single revenue generating entity among the group!! Friends of Alvin Ailey...give me a break!!! But I guess after all we've handed The Star and Cerner, it's a bargain!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd then you smile with them and have your cocktails with them and joke with them calling them by first name asking about the kids and grand kids...who the hell are you?
ReplyDelete3:51 At some point, the tipping point, we can all hope that stops, because it is bad for whites and blacks both.
ReplyDeleteThis fucking farce down at 18th and Vine, is a testimony to the absolute mendacity of the Liberal Narrative.
That location has been (In spite of the money invested.) is now and will be an economic rat hole and no one in the city, with above room temp IQ would deny it if you held a gun to their heads and they had to tell the truth.
Just set the money on fire, or, better yet, buy some coke and some whores and throw a hell of a party.
I hope the fucking dregs of Kansas City enjoy all that E tax they are robbing from those outside the city limits. Looks like you really needed it, especially with an administration that would shut down you emergency services, but have no problem with funding their pet coon projects. You Kansas Shittians are complete saps.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should expand the toy train to 18th and Vine since it supposedly brings developers. Haha!
ReplyDeleteEverything is going according to plans made years ago. We're being told. We deal. The agenda progresses. Period. The few with real power and finance to back it tell the city what they want. It is legacy time. How and which part of the city benefits by whom. We are their pawns. Caste systems have been drawn for decades, centuries in some cases. What is left for their children to bear...not for us to receive. Duty means a lot as well as loyalty. Olde begats new. Same as it ever was and will be, forevermore.
ReplyDeleteThe Oprah Winfrey "philosophy" of government.
ReplyDeleteYou get a new car, YOU get a new car;
EVERYONE gets a new car.
Those "new" council members have certainly learned fast.
And at the knees of the most accomplished old grifters.
Doing the same thing, the same way, with the same people.
What a concept!
the Negro grift continues, unabated, in Killa City.
ReplyDeleteWhat a total shithole.
Can I be their Lawyer?
ReplyDeleteShut up and pay your reparations.
ReplyDeleteHow about more yellow jackets doing security.
ReplyDeleteUrban youth "car jumpers" awaiting opportunity to greet visitors to 18th & Vine district
ReplyDeleteAlright, enough is enough. No matter how much money you throw at this disaster it will remain a disaster. You can keep dumping perfume on a pile of shit, but in the end, it's still a pile of shit.
ReplyDeleteThe investment is needed to keep bad debts and loss-making enterprises alive.
ReplyDeleteGood luck
Just think, if the KC protestant establishment who booted out the Pendergast machine would have just let 12th St. survive for it was, a cultural heritage center of the jazz world, we would have had a world-class tourist mecca. Now 12th Street is an embarassment to the city with empty lots mixed with not much else. 12th St. & Vine is just a joke since the Section 8 housing was moved into that whole area (and 18th) to blow it up back in the "desegregation" era of the 60s, in which the black communities lost much of their own established services.
ReplyDeleteThe 18th Street area was the center of the black business community. At some point, the "adustment" (even to the classic song lyrics) was changed to 18th & Vine for political correctness.
So now they want to bring back something it wasn't, to try to manufacture something that was. Money siphoned off through the chain.
You can bet this will be a colossal waste of money, taxpayers.
Man, rather, historians rewrite history all the time to suit them.even by Congressional declaration. They'll turn that house into a home of jazz. They don't even have band or orchestra in high school anymore. Got to pay on your own parents. Jazz was a part of the church...at least they haven't got all of that yet, just some pastors. Kid's learned how to make their own music online and use YouTube and I would too.
ReplyDeleteDear Mayor Sly, Kiss any bond issue Good Bye!
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
KC Citizens
Terry Murray wonders where the pussy is at?
ReplyDeleteThat large, round asshole of a City Manager and his eternal bending over for the NIGGERS, is just getting ridiculous. How much fucking money are we going to shovel into that NIGGER pit??
ReplyDeleteCFRG says the city never invests in east side projects or economic development because the toy train stole all the money. This is just more dead tree media lies. Long live Dan Coffey, Savior and Lord protector of East KC! He should be on the $20 bill along side Harriet Tubman.
ReplyDelete^^^If the money was unavailable- which is a lie - it's only because Reed chose to move the money to the toy train instead of using it for economic development. For decades, development money has been brought to the Eastside of Kansas City. There's evidence of it everywhere but the money was improperly used and so it gives the appearance that no economic development happens on the Eastside. It's not that development doesn't happen there, it's rather that the developments are largely and consistently unsuccessful and unsustainable. It's amateur night. And nepotism abounds. It's your turn to get in on the action.
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