And so, the ponzi scheme that is Kansas City politics continues with nearly clandestine economic development effort pushed through despite concerns about sustainability . . .
KC Biz Journal: TIF Commission advances East Side revitalization effort
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"Roughly $500,000 a year in earnings tax revenue paid by employees of Kansas City Public Schools would be diverted from city coffers into improvements within a 20-block-long swath of the city's East Side under a tax increment financing plan advanced Friday afternoon.
"The Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City voted 9-1 during a special meeting in favor of creating a "proactive" city-backed TIF district aimed at stabilizing and revitalizing the area, which includes 781 acres, seven neighborhoods and 2,739 parcels improved with homes, businesses and churches . . ."
Read the whole thing here . . .
The answer to any criticism of this move is a well-deserved attack on Downtown which is also propped up by hyperbolic tax breaks, TIF and development privilege . . . And so the debate continues as KCMO plunges further into debt.
Developing . . .
Give me that $500,000. Just got a brand new, no clog toilet I've been wanting to try out.
ReplyDeleteHow much evidence do you need to see that throwing money at black people does no good? Exhibit A: the Kansas City School District.
ReplyDeleteWhat a waste of money. NO matter what you build or create, black people will fuck it up.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead and pretend you don't already know that.
It's cold out, just set the money on fire. THAT would be a more reasonable use of the cash.
Yes, with only 114 homicides, endless violence, and too much crime to even count, private investors are just falling over each other to put their money in that part of town.
ReplyDeleteAnd through whose hands will the money pass and who will the "contractors" be?
Until the "leaders" and residents of that part of KCMO get serious about curbing the behavior of the worst among them, any money spent there will be a waste and nothing will change.
The same thing, the same way, with the same people.
Flatlined brain waves.
How silly of the TIF commission. Obviously they should continue to subsidize the officially blighted areas of Kansas City--the Plaza, Briarcliff, the Crossroads, downtown apartments and condos, etc. Why in the world would anyone waste money on areas that are really blighted? That's just not the Kansas City way!
ReplyDeleteIf taxing and spending was going to revitalize anything in this town KC would have been the Emerald City decades ago.What I have witnessed in this town is spending without serious consideration of future and/or associated obligations related to the expenditure. It does little good to build anything with tax revenue when you are going to spend decades having to maintain it. Have we learned nothing from the Sport Complex issues or Sprint Center? Sure we can pass an initiative, but looks what happens. Does anyone in this town have a cur what it costs KC just to maintain Sprint Center? Does anyone know what the electric bill is on an Arena that sits empty most of the time? Does anyone think about the future roof job the structure will need, what rebuilding area streets and rerouting traffic actually costs KC? This is the whole damn problem with the boon attitude in this town. Stick four sputnick looking "so called" pieces of artwork on top of the Bartle pillars, when dam near no one will be looking and literally spend million keeping them up. It is as if no one in local government grasps the concept of fiscal responsibility.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a really neat plan to tear down, rebuild and offer all kinds of tax breaks (paid for by you), but please consider that half the old worn out crap you are tearing down was once paid for by you in the sane type of scheme. The city needs to stop the concept that city planning involved forcing the tax payers to gamble. Do we need to force the city commission to drive around this town and look at the baloney they have burned money on?
The city needs to get out of the business of competing with it's own citizens and start supporting them and facilitating way for them to succeed without cherry picking and wasting tax payer money on dreams that never seem to come true in this hell hole.
Buy $500,000.00 worth of ammo, distribute it in that same 20 blocks. More bang for our buck!
ReplyDeleteWeez Kansas City folk like to talk and yap a lot.
ReplyDeleteThat should fix it!
Need to change the name of the motto to the Blow me State.
ReplyDeleteYeah, a lot of good tax breaks made. Just look at Monarch Manor, Shitadel and Kennsington place. Those houses have seen better days, like when they were built new. Those neighborhoods are now little more than glorified section 8 housing complexes. It's too late to try and bring people back to KCs eastside when there are much better opportunities abroad. Any serious black person wants decent education for their kids, a place were gunfire at all hours of the night isn't condidered normal, a place where you dont have to drive 30 minutes to find essentials like soap, charged a special tax on water passed off as a service fee, where codes enforcement is an actual thing rather than some political manuever against people you don't like, where youre not subject to home invaisons and robbery attempts every five days, etc. etc. I could go on but its a waste of time and money when I know without question, there are much better places to live. Why live in KC when you can live in a suburb and appropriate ties to Kansas City. There's a reason why the richest people in KC metro live in places like Leawood, KS. Poor people need to take the hint.
ReplyDeleteits not the money being wasted in briarcliff or river market... the afro americans have had decades and its just gotten worse and worse. fix the potholes, put out the arsons, thats it. no social welfare programs, they are a proven waste. since the 70s
ReplyDeleteIn the 1940s, the Paseo Corridor (roughly from Missouri Avenue to Truman Road and from Prospect Avenue to Charlotte Avenue) was affluent, with mansions and grand apartment buildings lining both sides of the Paseo. But by the 1980s, after the Housing Authority of Kansas City built five crowded public-housing towers known as the Wayne Minor high-rises, the neighborhood had become littered with used condoms, syringes and broken glass pipes.
ReplyDeleteThe Pitch Bryan Noonan SEP 15, 2005
See that is what happens to any money wasted trying to help the black race or what they were suppose to be about. Blacks as a rule have no respect for anyone or anything. People in Japan have lived in tighter and smaller quarters ofr hundreds of years and not ruined whole well established areas. Japan's homicide rate has been steadily decreasing since the 1950s, and now the country has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world, according to a new United Nations report. Fewer than one person is murdered for every 100,000 in the population, compared to 4.8 for the United States. If you can't see it's a black issue, then you my friend are one blind dumb sum-bitch.
East side revitalization would consist of moving some of those big D-9 Cat's and trackhoes down to KC from that Indian bowel movement in North Dakota and letting them do their thing. Line up.....side by side and cleanse the East side.
ReplyDeleteBuild a new police station that will do it. Sorry they already did well build another one !
DeleteThe only thing that will save the east side is to move blacks to Ward parkway .
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ReplyDeleteJustene comes through again with the money shot!!!