Kansas City tax breaks, incentives and just about every variety of eco-devo scheme hasn't worked to create jobs according to a recent study.
Like it or not . . .
EVEN AFTER HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED THERE ARE FEWER JOBS WITHIN THE LOOP THAN BEFORE OUR SO-CALLED DOWNTOWN RENAISSANCE!!!
Here's more than a bit of evidence . . .
The Smallness Of The Potentially ‘Hip’ Core
The main point:
"A report released by the Brookings Institution said that in 2010 just 16.9 percent of the area’s jobs were in the core, defined as within three miles of Kansas City’s downtown. That’s down from 20.5 percent in 2000."
Even better . . . Check this money quote:
"Kansas City has undertaken a series of urban redevelopment plans of its own that, again, have focused on attracting the “hip” class to the city center, oftentimes with significant tax incentives. And as has become commonplace, the hip have come, but the jobs have not."
So, rather than dealing with numbers and facts . . . Kansas City's political leadership is doubling down and somehow mistakenly believes that a toy train that barely travels two miles will make Kansas City sooooooooo cool that it will defy the basic principles of the current American economy. It's a gamble that has gone bust time and time again but the architects of these schemes get rich in the process and that's why this town is set to roll the dice one more time . . .
Thanks Tony for sheding light on this. Sly is living up to his name for sure, paying back his political masters at the expense of tax revenue that should be used to better the life of the hard working tax payers. Again the Shitizens get the goverment they deserve...
ReplyDeleteSly knows no one will question his motives less they be called racist. Just another nigger grifter getting by on Whitey's dime. Sly will get big payback on all these seeds he's planting when he's back in public life.
ReplyDeleteYou have to give it time, jobs follow rooftops.
ReplyDeleteThe suburban leeches have doled out corporate welfare and subsidized sprawl for 60 years now.
Ten years of reinvesting in the core of our places is hardly enough to reverse that trend of hand-outs, gimmes and parasitic lifestyles.
The urban core is still the highest concentration of jobs in the city. There is nowhere in the suburbs with 17% of the jobs in 3 square miles.
Sorry, tit-suckers, we're tired of carrying your weight and not getting anything back. without us, you shrivel and die.
kc doesnt have enough fortune 500 companies. The closing of hallmark a decade from now will be the nail
ReplyDeleteProspects Dim for Kansas City Complex
ReplyDeleteThe tab is mounting for Kansas City, Mo., on a bet it made during the real-estate boom on an $850 million downtown entertainment district. Eliot Brown has details on Lunch Break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBDayvAsD0
Don't want to cover the 2 billion in public debt that will be created by the streetcars, airport, new hotel, and other pet projects?
ReplyDeleteMove the fuck away. Kansas will take you. As long as you aren't black, mexican, gay or poor.
Blacks, mexicans, gays and poor will be the only people left in central KC at some point so they can pick up the bill. No problem.
ReplyDeleteSuburbanite = parasites.
ReplyDeleteWe feed you, you're just too fucking stupid to know it, and as central KC goes, so goes this whole fucking ship.
Show Me Institute bullshit and data twisting.
ReplyDeleteJust a distraction, so the Rexes and Crosby's of the world can reach into your pocket and redistribute your wealth to their crony capitalist chums.
ReplyDeleteWelcome To Detroit
"Hip" is transient.
ReplyDeleteFoolish to gamble on it.
City Hall got carried away by First Fridays.
And even those aren't what they used to be.
You won't need a car living downtown with the toy train. You will be able to save $9,000 a year, that is until landlords figure out they can raise rents and get that cash to put in their own bank accounts.
ReplyDeleteDetroit > any KC suburb.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. Of course this will change as soon as Russ's streetcar is in operation.
ReplyDelete4:05pm. You have it right. Our rents will be going up $25 - $30 per month to pay for a streetcar nobody wants. I am fighting back by avoiding merchants that are collecting the streetcar sales tax.
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of big companies, but they avoid KCMO so employees are not stuck with the earnings tax.
ReplyDelete12:42 you obviously don't know what you are talking about. There are many blacks and Mexicans already here. Take a look around KCK or Olathe sometime. Go to Garden City or Dodge City. As for the gay and poor, we will take them but treat them very badly. And by we I mean the conservative, religious, fun nuts of this state.
ReplyDeleteThey stole millions from the east side and midtown neighborhoods and spent it on downtown and they WERE WRONG. The projections were bullshit. The engineering firms and the consultants made the money and we get the bills.
ReplyDeleteThe Loop isn't even cool anymore.
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