Without much concern for just about every negative financial indicator, Dead Tree Media columnist Steve Rose shares yet another upbeat perspective on Downtown that doesn't seem to care about increase, crime, debt, negative urban neighborhood sentiment. Check it: No matter where you live, the revival of downtown Kansas City is a great investment
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How much is this guy getting paid off to write this stuff?
ReplyDeleteI thought only politician's lie right to your face.
ReplyDeleteA bargain? If this is the case, then their should be less need for bonds and TIF to finance the development.
ReplyDeleteI think he's trying to encourage all the CKMO riff raff and decedents to not move to Johnson County.
ReplyDeleteSly and Ol' Russ Johnson are no longer in demand
ReplyDeleteTheir immortal soul's my lay forever in the sand
The angels wouldn’t take them up to heaven like they planned
‘Cause they couldn’t pry that toy train from their cold dead hands
"No matter where you live, the revival of downtown Kansas City is a great investment" spins Steve Rose from his Johnson County perch.
ReplyDeleteThe statement is so absolutely preposterous that we fear for the sanity of this Johnson County senior citizen! The truth, of course, is that the so-called revival of downtown Kansas City means absolutely nothing to the majority of residents who live in the metro.
Only a small percentage of metro residents venture into KC's downtown for entertainment, dining, shopping, etc. And why is that so? Because it means more time driving, paying to park, paying more than they would elsewhere, increased congestion, increased crime, among other things.
Does Mr. Rose actually believe that throngs of people from OP, Leawood, Olathe, Lee's Summit, Blue Springs, or north of the river are going into downtown KC if it's not work-related? More than once or twice a year? I know that's not true.
A new Mecca? And a statue of Kay Barnes? Wow, is Mr. Rose freelancing for the KC Chamber of Commerce?
Listen carefully! All one need do is look up where the vast majority of KC's professional people, corporate management, and other such types choose to reside. People vote with their dollars. Case closed. And remember, Mr. Rose reminded everyone that he's been "perching" in Johnson County for many years.
Surely he was kidding????
ReplyDeleteBroke my bullshit meter on that one.
ReplyDeleteWhile memories are short, 2008/9 taught us that pundits will always tout the ‘everything is great’ story until it is too late.
ReplyDeleteWhere the hell is Mary Sanchez?
ReplyDeleteNaw I think we should incentives and subsidies to developers to put density, retail, and entertainment blight in his back yard. He'll enjoy the tranquility of drunk mobs screaming and hollering down the street.
ReplyDeleteEveryone in Kansas dismisses the data because it doesn't cost them anything.
ReplyDeleteNo fucking why is that my kid. Nothing that stupid could have grown from my cum.
ReplyDeleteSteve Rose doesn't represent Johnson County and never has. He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple, inherited his dad's business, and promptly ran it into the ground.
ReplyDeleteHis "knowledge" is based on polling and the opinions of the handful of people who still listen to him and has lost what little sense of Johnson County that he ever had.
And he IS a shill for the Chamber crowd and other assorted swells.
6:39 could not be more on the money!
JoCo spends more $ susbidizing their "development" than downtown.
ReplyDeleteAny time someone else is paying the tax load, it's a great investment for RINO like this guy. Another column or two like that and he'll surpass TKC for pure ass-clownery.
ReplyDeleteOMG Can't believe this jerk. KCMO citizens are paying hundreds of millions and JoCo brags about the benefit. We are sick and tired of wasting our tax dollars resurrecting downtown.
ReplyDeleteWe still have zero services downtown. Where is Traders Joes, REI,Whole Foods, etc. Guess they did want to join the renaissance.
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