Kansas City's long gone legacy as a cowtown is getting tougher to maintain according to a recent Star article: "An exhibition hall at the American Royal complex has $1 million in structural damage that needs to be repaired now, city officials told a citizens advisory panel Wednesday."
I'm commenting here b/c it's easier than spending 5 minutes "telling the Star about myself." They already know me.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, are the stories in the Star getting shorter, or is it just me? While their Ecstasy piece ran for three pages (and didn't really need to … I get it, pills bad, made of stomach-worm poison and who knows what else / kids are dumb and need to stay away from them and their "unscrupulous marketers"), this one about a city-owned building the city still owes money on is lacking in necessary detail.
How can you end a piece with a tossed-off statement about faulty architecture and not say anything else? The 2-story concrete structure was built on squishy land where no such structure should be … concrete either can't be used higher than one story (whatever, look at Rome for goodness' sakes!) OR, someone didn't design it well or well enough to last the 30+ years we're doing.
Lynn, I hope there is a follow-up coming. If so, make readers feel confident and interested in coming back. End the story with "more details coming soon." Maybe you wrote about it in the blog section, but without a link, I'm not inclined to check. There was not even a good description of what is actually wrong with the building. Photos would help, too.
great comment.
ReplyDeleteTear it down! That was Cauthen's paln from the beginning when the Sprint Center was planned. Every city in the US that built a new sports arena ended up scrapping the old one. Pay off the debt, pay off American Royal and get it done!
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