A vast array of subdivisions and strip malls don't really count as "city" in any real sense of the work but collectively (a word that most suburbanites fear) it's clear that Johnson County is becoming its own metro area with an economy and employment base that continues to eclipse KCK and Kansas City proper . . . Here's a public radio question that doesn't seem to realize that this trend is the death rattle for the urban core in the Kansas City area: As Johnson County Grows, Should It Still Be Considered Suburban?
Comments
Post a Comment
TKC COMMENT POLICY:
Be percipient, be nice. Don't be a spammer. BE WELL!!!
- The Management
Johnson County is the economic center of the Kansas City metro and has been for a long time. The two Kansas Citys are places of declining significance, and have been for a long time. That's the reality many people around here won't admit. The capital of the Kansas City metropolitan region is an entire county in Kansas, not a single city.
ReplyDeleteThe defining historical facts of Kansas City, Missouri, in the 20th century were racial segregation (not what it was, but census maps show that it is still present) and the riots of 1968. Together, they produced the transformative phenomenon we call white flight. Transformative because it transformed the metro.
Any city that cannot keep its roads plowed when it snows has become a de-facto slum. Any city that advertises itself as the City of Fountains, and can't afford to keep half of them running, has become a de-facto slum.
There is no border war, folks. It's just sensible people and businesses fleeing a former city that is in a state of irreversible decline. The state boundary line is irrelevant: As states go, both Kansas and Missouri are equally poor and backward. (Kansas used to be a little better off, but Brownback and his pals have fixed that.)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ReplyDeleteBest comment of the day. This deserves to be highlighted!
Hahahaha! 8:45!
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I shouldn't laugh at delusional people.
JoCO the "economic center" Hahahaha! Too cute. It's a smaller portion of the economy than KCMO, is not growing as fast economically as the missouri side and it literally has to pay businesses to move there.
Tell me, you economic genuis you, if "sensible people and businesses" are fleeing, why is
1. The northland growing quicker?
2. The urban core more densely populated than anywhere in joco (aka, more people WANT to live there)
3. Home values higher per square foot in brookside waldo the plaza the Westside downtown the crossroads union hill Hyde park west plaza Roanoke valentine volker Westport etc than they are in joco? There's a reason the joco mantra is "you just get so much MORE house for your money"...they are WORTH LESS.
4. Finally why does kansas have to pay businesses to relocate there I it's such an economic powerhouse? No where else in America has to pay businesses as much to locate there.
Try again, kid.
Northland does not include all of KCMO. A lot of that growth is past KC and really part of a Platte County boom.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot one key factor.
JoCo took all of KC's jobs.
KCMO is still struggling to keep up and the job growth over the past few years has been meager compared with the JoCo boom.
And let's not forget that KCMO has more murders within its city limits than all of the other surrounding cities combined.
Enjoy your slum.
We have a streetcar to nowhere!
ReplyDeleteTonys Johnson County.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Did a streetcar spark all of this joco job growth?
ReplyDelete