Thanks to the BAD-ASS TKC TIPSTER who sent us this photo of the folks from The Greater Kansas City Chamber making the announcement about their East Side Revival Plan.
A rather AWESOME reader pointed my attention to something really funny from the comments:
"Shouldn't be too much longer before one of the Big 5 pulls out and joins another conference."
And that's probably the best thing on this site today. On an effort that we hope works but we've seen before . . .
Here's what The Chamber has to say
Check the news links . . .
KMBC: Troost Corridor Picked For Revitalization Effort
KC Biz Journal: Greater Kansas City Chamber targets Troost Corridor for Big 5 initiative
KSHB: Chamber focuses on KC's east side
KCTV5: Chamber selects Troost Corridor for neighborhood boost
Northeast News: Chamber announces target area for Urban Neighborhood Initiative
A bit more info is needed Tony.
ReplyDeleteThat photo is from The Nutter Ivanhoe Neighborhood Center.
At least somebody is doing some research around here.
ReplyDeleteThe fools and their money will be easily and rapidly parted.
ReplyDeleteThe Chamber swells aren't used to dealing with serious cons like the folks they've put on this "board".
Time to line up all the relatives and contractors who used to feast at the school district trough and get them started here.
Are the Citadel Plaza guys out of jail yet?
Just what KC needs. Another community center. it has worked so far.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Chamber honcho Jim Heeter has ever met a black person. Boy is he in for it.
ReplyDeletemo,mo,mo,mo,mo $$$$$$ fo de niggas!!!!
ReplyDeleteMore Chamber BS, so Jim and Kristi look like they are doing something for their $millions.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt their first order of business will be to announce a wonderful gleaming Disney-esque development plan and put a TIF plan in place.
ReplyDeleteThen the City will acquire the land through condemnation using general fund revenues reallocated from the street maintenance account.
Next they will transfer the land to their "new" UNI CDC, who will promptly undertake demolition of large swaths of structures.
Then they'll discover they improperly assessed environmental hazards and the costs associated with their plan. Everything will be up o he while they recalibrate.
A "black" Cordish-type entity will come along to reduce the project, but will require substantial financial incentives and assistance to make it work. The general fund will be raided again.
In the meantime, with all of he attention and resources focused on the UNI, the rest of the City will rot.
Same plan as always....
I can't wait to see which lawyers, developers, general contractors and specialty contractors, architects, engineers, and "consultants" step up and voluntarily disqualify themselves and their firms from accepting any contracts in this area because of potential conflicts of interest.
ReplyDeleteWho will be first?
How about you, Terry Dunn?
The key player on the list of the clueless, the incompetent, and the grifters appointed to this project will be Roshann Parris. She's the PR wiz and that's really what this is all about.
ReplyDeleteHow to make chicken crap look like chicken salad.
And off they go!
Dunn, Heeter, Ellis, and the forever inept Sylvia Robinson (the Troost Zone version of Anita Maltbia) are set for failure! Next year watch how many of them point fingers at each other for the waste of millions of public and private funds and nothing to show for it.
ReplyDeleteI disagree, 8:22.
ReplyDeleteIt usually takes a couple of years waste millions and once they have, they'll join arms and celebrate their "success" with a report that has lots of pretty pictures, disjointed and irrelevant numbers and "facts" ("we reduced the incidence of reports indicating the presence of wild dog packs by 94%"- huh?) and a community picnic.
Yee haw!!!
Goddamn, before we undertake another one of these fiascos can we at least FINISH the Linwood Shopping Center/Prospect Corridor, Gates Plaza, 18th and Vine District, the Brush Creek Corridor, the Citadel, or the Green Impact Zone?
ReplyDeleteJUST FINISH ONE FIRST.
Thank You 8:45...well said!!
ReplyDeleteWell, so far it looks like all that have commented have seen through this thinly veiled line of BS
ReplyDeleteRoshann Paris...didn't she bring us Karen Pletz?
ReplyDeleteIn her defense, Roshann was the one who convinced Pletz to off herself.
ReplyDeleteWhen I heard they wanted to "revive" the Troost corridor, I immediately thought that meant bulldozing all 3,000 acres and putting an overflow parking lot for UMKC.
ReplyDeleteSadly, it sounds like yet another big developer giveaway that will do nothing except put a polish on a turd and cost me more tax money.
Again, Two words: BEACON HILL.
ReplyDeleteONCE AGAIN:
ReplyDeleteGoddamn, before we undertake another one of these fiascos can we at least FINISH the Linwood Shopping Center/Prospect Corridor, Gates Plaza, 18th and Vine District, the Brush Creek Corridor, the Citadel, or the Green Impact Zone?
JUST FINISH ONE FIRST.
2/28/12 8:45 AM
You know, I've been thinking about it, and I honestly can't think of anything they could put in that area that would make me ever set foot there willingly. Maybe I'm just another scared white woman. And maybe these people have some great ideas, and I'm completely wrong. But then again, maybe they ought to just raze that whole area and put in a park or walking trails or just a parking lot of nothing and leave it at that. It would be an improvement.
ReplyDeleteHere we go again.. another failed community development scheme. There are no deep pockets saying that THEY will be devoting and handing over millions of dollars for any plan that manages to survive the dysfunctional neighborhood council level planning. Every neighborhood will vie for the bulk of the imaginary dollars.
ReplyDeleteI fear for the thin skin of these well meant chamber types when the residents rise up against them and demand that the chamber types DO SOMETHING. The die was cast when Ms. Margaret May blurted out "We've been planned to death! Now is the time to DO!" Putting the onus on the well intentioned interlopers. I would not say such mean sounding things if Ms. May had said "THANK YOU"
Many years and dollars have been wasted on these types of ideas. NO CITY DOLLARS SHOULD BE DIVERTED FOR THIS FIASCO IN THE MAKING. And for God's sake please finish something around here! This city has Attention Deficit Disorder to the MAX.