Thanks to the Internets, retail is dead . . .This road is proof:
Mission battling empty storefronts along Johnson Drive
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - If you drive along Johnson Drive between Nall and Lamar, you will see one storefront after another sitting empty. 'For rent' signs sit in the windows and locks hang on the doors. "When we first moved in three years ago there were more [opened stores] than there are now," said Kyle Maggart, who owns Brother's Music.
the area is in a state of suspended animation until the mission mall property starts coming out of the ground.
ReplyDeleteWe love our Mission merchants, especially Fluffy Fresh, Werners, and Moss. They're all artisinal.
ReplyDeleteSorry Mission - you're now in "Northern Johnson County", Paradise moved south and you didn't!
ReplyDelete"Singin' so long, it's been good to know you..."
Mission is a joke and the smart people know it. The cops are a bunch of Nazi mass ticket writing assholes. Mission would be better off to just let Overland Park or Prairie Village take them over and preferable it be Overland Park.
ReplyDeleteMission City Council : an Apartment complex is NIT going to help that area Bozo's, what are you STUPID !!!!!
lower property taxes and lower rents along that shopping area is what will being it back
Swear, idiots at the helm of a sinking ship city council !
854 might be right.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is clear. They need a streetcar.
ReplyDeleteIn Missions,case a street car may be its only option. Many people were Living Large. And now that money is due. No money is left .And that will be the case all over the U.S. Many RETAILER will close.
ReplyDeleteTwo words, Rent and Amazon.
ReplyDeleteMission needs a strip club and it should be full of hot young sluts. Tell the cops to not harass the customers, let them drink and drug and drive with impunity. This would be a good way to reive Mission.
ReplyDeleteturn empty stores into homeless shelters!
ReplyDeletewin win!
The empty stores could be used by illegal aliens to increase the number of illegal alien businesses, "drug" stores in Johnson County.
ReplyDelete"I'm going to create tremendous jobs. And we're bringing GDP from, really, 1 percent, which is what it is now, and if she got in, it will be less than zero. But we're bringing it from 1 percent up to 4 percent. And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent. And if we do, you don't have to bother asking your question, because we have a tremendous machine."
ReplyDeleteUnder Obama: 2.9 percent real GDP growth in 2015, 2.6 percent in 2014
New GDP growth report last week for Trump was only 2.3%
What happened to 4, 5, and 6 percent? How's that MAGA lie working?
So much winning...
The ticket-crazed Mission cops set the tone for that town. And it is not a good one. To most of us, Mission is just a hazard zone we have to drive through to get somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteWe love Mission! Great place to live. Things are getting better, not worse here. This will all work itself out. From Lamar west it's been all positive. It's been more postive to the East than the article admits to.
ReplyDeleteI love Mission. But the leadership is obstinate. The police are ridiculous there. The Mission mall site is an overdue joke
ReplyDeleteIn an era when you can do your own taxes in about 30 minutes for 1/3 the price there's surprise that a Liberty Tax location went out of business?
ReplyDeleteThis isn't an issue for the Mission main drag so much as an issue for retailing and businesses anywhere. The old days of jacking up prices and pretending to have a lock on products and services are gone, gone, gone. The days of taxing jurisdictions fleecing owners and proprietors for inventory and sales and property taxes are history.
Until the City of Mission realizes that, there will be little renewal. Small businesses can no longer afford to fill city coffers.