Up at The Legends in KCK today gawking at chubby suburban housewives and staying far away from the Midtown Traffic Mess.
A quick glimpse as The Upcoming Wizards Stadium along with all of the other development made me realize KC Proper just can't and (and maybe shouldn't) try to compete as a tourist destination. Around campaign season EVERYONE talks "neighborhoods" and spends the next three years hanging around development lawyers.
These photos document what might have been at the Bannister site before Co-Mayors Funky and Squitiro witnessed the deal fall through. The former location that was home to the empty, old school mall is now just another desolate local place right by the highway for all to see.
Sadly, despite the fact this town bends over backwards in order to give away tax breaks (ouch) we still come up losing worse than a C-list soccer team.
Is it true that Gloria Squitiro F the deal up? I heard talk?
ReplyDeleteYou need a whole lot more than tax breaks if you're going to have a successful and profitable ongoing business operation of any kind.
ReplyDeleteKCMO somehow thinks businesses are going to locate or stay in a city with a terrible murder rate, poor streets and sidewalks, storm drains that flood when it rains, a crappy sewer system, and a bureaucracy that makes it as hard as possible to get answers to planning, zoning, and licensing questions.
Businesses, and sports are one of the biggest, like to work with governments that work in a common sense, business-like way, not with a bunch of self-important blowhards demanding their parking places and box seats as part of the deal, and who don't have a real clue about how things actually work.
There's an election coming and yet another chance to get it right. May not be too many left.
Th Funk started this whole anti-developmnt prior to his election and it resinated to other areas of govt. Board appnts, agenda,in-experienced staff,involvement of family members,working from home,etc,etc, The Co-mayors are downers on all levels.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a pretty damn cool stadium...would have been awesome to have it in KCMO. But bravo to the Wizards for finding a way to gett it done somewhere in our metro!
ReplyDeletewho would want to move to KC ? You have to pay people to come here.
ReplyDeleteIt's just another thing John Sharp hasn't done for the sixth district. Maybe if he hadn't quarreled with Owen Buckley.....
ReplyDeleteAsk Jonny Rizzo, your favorite Politician, to do something about it, Tony!
ReplyDeleteThis is no deal if you have to pay to get these kinds of enterprises. BrokenDot can have all of it. Remember the multimillion dollar spat over property taxes with nebraska furniture mart? Shows you who wears the pants in the Dot.
ReplyDeleteCorporate welfare needs to end. It's costing us more money than it makes. Let KS dump its coffers into corporate beggars. They'll regret it someday.
And to say that people are moving to the Dot because it is safer? Please. Do you watch the news. Dot murder rate per capita makes the Missouri side look like valhalla.
Actually, the murder rate per thousand residents in KCK is about half what it is in KCMO.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's because the elected officials and the police work much harder to develop relationships and work with the communities and neighborhood leaders.
let me see if I can get my brain around TKC Calculus: It's worse than a c-list soccer stadium. And it should have been in Kansas City, dammitall, and not WyCo.
ReplyDeleteThere's a word--actually, there are lots of words--for people who lack the analytical skills to pick an issue, frame it and argue passionately one way or another. But I'm afraid they're all going to get replaced by "Tony" if you keep this up.
When you feel the need to piss on everything in sight, jackhole, you'll eventually find yourself hip-deep in urine.
The stadium moved to KCK where the business could actually be profitable. No mandatory payments to Hispanic and black groups/contracts, no corrupt unions to pay offs, just plain progress see how fast they built that stadium, only in Red states where we keep the liberal special interests at bay.
ReplyDeleteDid the Truman Sports Complex turn a thriving area into a ghetto? When the sports complex was new the area around it was a decent middle class area. Now its practically a ghetto. Why would locating a soccer stadium in a ghetto turn it into a middle class area? Perhaps sports venues are grossly overated in what they accomplish. In a downtown environment they have some impact on the surrounding area, in a suburban location mostly irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteDarn those nasty Kansans! They take away all the good stuff from old stumbling KCMO. Heck, you can even work over there and not pay an E-tax!
ReplyDeleteP.S. To 8:40: The soccer stadium is not in a ghetto. It's in one of the nicest areas of the metroplex. You need to get out more.
The old Bannister Mall site is a ghetto, putting a soccer stadium there would not have changed it. The Wyandotte County location is certainly not a ghetto but with all the corruption that is KCK it will be in a couple of decades.
ReplyDeleteWyandotte County seems to be doing a lot better than KCMO. And that is somewhat amazing, given that WyCo has also been dominated by Democrats for years. And we all know that Democratic domination equals corruption and decline.
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