TKC SUNDAY MUST READ!!! KANSAS CITY TAXPAYERS: TIME FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO CHECK OUT OF 'DOOMED' DOWNTOWN CONVENTION HOTEL SCHEME!!!
Tonight, Kansas City tax fighters make another plea for local politicos to abandon a plan that was rushed through by Mayor Sly and the previous Council. Take a look at more than a few arguments against the project that has confronted financial hardship and universal skepticism.
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Opportunity For A Reset On Downtown Hotel
Dear City Council Members;
This week, City Manager Troy Schulte offered you all a clean opportunity to step away from the downtown hotel project which appears to be a very bad and "doomed to fail" investment for the taxpaying voters of Kansas City, Missouri. Schulte stated this last week: If the developers cannot show marked progress by December 20, the City can pull it’s support. Councilwoman Loar is right to be “very skeptical of this project with this development group”. We know many more of you feel the same way but have been hesitant to state your feelings in public.
If you would like to remove any reference of your good name to this hotel project, now is the time. Those of you running for Mayor might want to consider what a failed hotel project, which you heartily endorsed, might do for your chances! This is an opportune time for each of you to tell the City Manager to pull the plug. Turn this deal over to private investors, if it is that good investors should line up to get in.
As far as the City "having to pay $250,000 if they pull the plug”, we question this. When the developers and investors came to City Hall and presented their plan to the council, they stated they had “ just returned from New York and had all the financing in place and were ready to go”. Perhaps the City was misled from the beginning? We believe this should exonerate the City from any liabilities since we were lied to from the start.
Stand up and be counted.. All the City Manager is looking for is nine council members, eight more, to tell him to close out the deal. This is a win … win for you our council members and the voters of KCMO. Let them build the hotel without taxpayer dollars. If you do not stop it now, it is only a matter off time before the developers are back asking for more city tax dollars or a guarantee on the bonds from the city or both. Stop it now.
We do not need this hotel. We housed the Major League Baseball All Star Game; The League Play Off Series and the World Series without any problems. These are the some of the biggest gatherings in the country. Since the World Series, Kansas City has seen several more hotels open with hundreds of additional rooms.
The the City Manager to pull the plug!
Citizens for Responsible Government
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You decide . . .
Burke would never be able to do business again in Kansas City if he turned around and sued. It's an empty threat and that's a shame that this is the only thing that's holding this "deal together"
ReplyDeleteIt's like Kansas City is negotiating with a gun to its head.
See you at the groundbreaking.
DeleteThese projects have happened in other cities. Hate to break it to you guys but cities have to work with developers in order to devise solutions to the needs of the residents. KC absolutely needs more convention hotel space and those who would deny this want to limit our city.
^^^ If KC "needs" it. Let's go with a better deal beyond a 35 million dollar boondoggle.
DeleteYes conventions are chomping at the bits to book a week here in fabulous Killa City.
ReplyDeleteLMAO
So any chance of dooming 18th & Vine?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't we just build an imaginary hotel for the imaginary 24 million visitors who want to stay downtown?
ReplyDelete"Hate to break it to you guys but cities have to work with developers in order to devise solutions to the needs of the residents."
ReplyDeleteSo a money pit of a hotel which at best creates a few low wage jobs is a solution to the needs of the residents? How about the need for a safe neighborhood? How about the need for water that doesn't cost more than a car payment? How a bout the need for snow removal, streets and sidewalks?
Aren't we still paying $1 million dollars per year to keep the downtown Marriott online?
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned, if this hotel is so destined to be a success then why does Burke and the rest of the hotel team need our money? Are we just going to be subsidizing another hotel downtown? YES!!! It's a money grab and Burke and the rest of the hotel team is looking for a tax payer paid parachute for when the hotel doesn't live up to projections. Much like Cordish.
This city never learns.