Kansas City residents in the working-class Waldo neighborhood continue their fight against discount prices at the expense of Chinese toddlers. Sure, their efforts are mostly inspired by concerns about increased traffic and new visitors to their enclave but they've managed to engage in a nice bit of grassroots activist nevertheless.
To wit . . .
CHECK THE NEW PETITION AIMED AT STOPPING THE PROPOSED WAL-MART IN WALDO!!!
Here's the promo-jpeg . . .
And now take a look at the revised missive to change hearts and mind about the neighborhood impact of a box store giant . . .
Change.org Petition - Kansas City Public School Board: Only a non-commercial use should be considered for the Bingham Property
Now this is a big step because Waldo neighbors have already won big concessions from the box store giant.
Still . . .
WALDO NEIGHBORS ARE GOING IN FOR THE KILL AGAINST A PROPOSED WAL-MART IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY JUST MIGHT BE ON THE CUSP OF VICTORY!!!
Kansas City Insiders report that a couple members of the Council are in support of keeping the school and even attempting to make it an educational institution once again . . . The overwhelming neighborhood sentiment is against the Wal-Mart and most local politicos seem to be scared to step-in on behalf of the discount giant.
And so, small stores and angry neighbors still rally for support and hope they can achieve a David vs. Goliath victory.
DEVELOPING . . .
Can't they just put in another Target?
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of STUPID FUCKS.
ReplyDeleteIt's a goddamn grocery store, NOT a big friggen Super Center.
Petitioners should put their money where their mouth is on this issue.
ReplyDeleteBuy it, find a suitable buyer, just quit whinning NIMBY.
First they came for the Walmart, next they will come for the used car lots.
It's a totally ludicrous and inappropriate location for any kind of a Walmart. School board must have been smoking weed while making this decision.
ReplyDeletewhile waldo was playing with their pussies writing petitions, Lee's Summit actually got something done and denied the WalMart proposal to build at 150 and 291.
ReplyDeleteSee people, when you move to a place where people aren't all fucked up drug addicts stealing money from the public till shit gets done.
That area needs to be re-named "Dildo".
ReplyDeleteIn a few years, the infamous east side will have a real competitor for the label, Shittiest Part Of KC.
As a "Waldonian", I'm ok with a Walmart Grocery. Who else is going to have th
ReplyDeleteWo else is going to have the financial means to clean up that former schol shithole property? Walmart will landscape the area and make it look right. More than likely additional businesses and commerce will follow.
ReplyDeleteAll of you "Waldonians" had best start packing shotguns. The niggers will infest the whole fucking area by 2020....Walmart or not.
ReplyDeleteThe KCPS can't run the schools they have now so how in hell they going to operate a run down out dated junk ass building?
ReplyDeleteYou Waldo people are pissing against the wind you might block Walmart if you are lucky but you won't block the next developer.
Heard a rumor Rick Hendricks looking at it for a used Caddy Car lot. So many blacks close to there he figures to clean up with good used caddy's car lot financing for all.
It will become a GIANT payday loan center/appliance rental joint/pawn shop/massage parlor/fried chicken joint "Mall".
ReplyDeleteJust think of how "upscale" that will be as opposed to a boring grocery store.
The clientele will be so much more "fashionable" (if you like hoodies and bling).
Enjoy the death of your community, assholes.
These are just shills for CVS, Walgreens and Price Chopper in Brookside, 85th and Wornall. Build the store and let the market decide.
ReplyDeleteThere was no concession. Wal-Mart simply said that they would suck the life out of people using a side street that cannot handle commercial traffic rather than Warnall Road. Big fucking deal. Wal-Mart is still scum.
ReplyDeleteIt is like Hitler saying that he will invade your country using country roads. The result is the same.
Tony you are as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Not as dumb as a bag of shit that spells Wornall "Warnall".
ReplyDeleteThat school location has been unused or misused for 20 years. So what else is new? Several parochial and private schools have looked at the location and decided that it just wouldn't work.
ReplyDeleteFor one thing, it is a bitch to get there both because it is behind Wornall, with no direct access and because students from other neighborhoods (a must for a high school or combined K-12 school) cannot get there very easily. It is not near an interstate highway or a major trafficway.
I agree that a WalMart, even just a grocery store, would be a nightmare in this mostly residential area.
I don't know whose nephew owned the property in the 50's before the school was built. It was never a very good location for any type of public access, but that never stopped the KCSD from buying it anyway and erecting a building that has apparently not worn its age well.
Good luck, guys. Maybe someone will buy the location for a retirement home. That seems to be what is happening to all the excess real estate in the SM District.
First off, this property isn't "mostly residential." It sits right on Wornall Road, just south of the strip shopping center that has the CVS, the Aldi's, and the Firestone store, and it's right across the street from such fine residential establishment as Goodyear's and Storage Mart.
ReplyDeleteWal-Mart is proposing extending 77th Street to Wornall with a dedicated left-turn lane on Wornall for southbound traffic to provide access, which will keep traffic off Wyandotte and the rest of the neighborhood. It is also proposing to build a pedestrian bridge so that the walkers and joggers using the Trolley Track Trail won't have to cross traffic.
Finally, I wish Tony would learn that this is not a "Wal-Mart" but a "Wal-Mart Neighborhood Store" -- a grocery store that won't draw much traffic from beyond the neighborhood it is in. People are not going to drive past multiple grocery stores to shop at one in Waldo.
Thanks for the note of sanity, 7:39. It's interesting to note that the Storage Mart was once a Piggly Wiggly, so it's not like a grocery store has never been in the area.
ReplyDeleteIn reality this petition is something the Waldo anti-Walmart crowd (all two or three of them) has ginned up to get publicity. Trying to talk sense to these people is like trying to convince birthers that Barack Obama did not grow up in Kenya. A waste of time and effort. Ignore them and they'll go away.
Lee's Summit sucks, though. Its like an off-brand JoCo...just fake stucco beige bullshit and cul-de-sacs. Waldo is an actual neighborhood, with substance and class.
ReplyDeleteI would take Lees Summit over Waldo any day.
ReplyDeleteWaldo is a very nice neighborhood, but "substance and class"? Please.
ReplyDeleteIt's a whole mix of styles, including many, many two-bedroom bungalows on slabs without basements that were thrown up as quick as they could be built. North of 75th, you got lots of Dibble-built Tudors from the 20s and 30s that will be there forever. But a lot of the housing south of 75th and east of Wornall, particularly just east of this site, is falling apart.
Now as for this stretch of Wornall Road south of 75th to 85th, it's a hodge-podge of small commercial properties that are dominated by fast-food, auto services, thrift stores, liquor stores, used car lots, and payday loan places, and multiple other places that have repurposed the original businesses two, three, four and even five times over.
That's "substance and class"?
Thats funny that Waldo residents think there is "substance and class there." I guess you guys dont realize that others outside of Waldo consider you just a few steps up from meth town. Not all, but a good part of Waldo looks shabby and run down.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Missourian Jacksonian Kansas Citians Waldoians don't support WalMart!
ReplyDeleteThere, fixed that for you.
Speak for yourself, 2:29.
ReplyDeleteLee's Summit is fucking gross. FauxCo.
ReplyDeleteThere's no there there.
Just curious. Are the
ReplyDeletebungalows mostly occupied by retiring people who will sell out? The "Geritol for Lunch Bunch?" That is how a neighborhood 'turns'.
A grocery store is probably a good fit for an aging area. Actually, a lot of Waldo wasn't that great even in the sixties. Remember Katz and the surrounding stores?
I don't think Waldo's aged all that well. Smaller 1930s houses. It ain't Brookside or Red Bridge, is it? I think they're more worried about invasion from the east side.
6:39, I speak for all. Get on board to get out.
ReplyDeleteObviously you don't, 11:06.
ReplyDeleteFuck Wal Mart, they have shit all over America. It's that simple. You want them in YOUR fucking neighborhood, go for it. But stay the fuck out of mine.
ReplyDeleteHow incisive.
ReplyDeleteOh, gee. It's the "fuck you" guy on Wyandotte. Ahat took you so long?
ReplyDeleteHi, Ahat. Is that short for Asshat?
ReplyDeleteI respectfully disagree... Would love to see a Walmart grocery going in at Waldo...
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