TKC SUNDAY SPECIAL!!! KANSAS CITY SHOULD REMEMBER DOWNTOWN CONVENTION HOTEL DEVELOPER MIKE BURKE'S PREVIOUS DISASTER: RENAISSANCE NORTH WASTELAND!!!
Once again a VERY SPECIAL THANKS to our KICK-ASS BLOG COMMUNITY for important followup on a Kansas City development that OFFERS AN IMPORTANT FACT CHECK AND PERSPECTIVE on current downtown convention hotel efforts.
To wit . . .
KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS SHARE THIS AWESOME PHOTO ESSAY FEATURING A RECENT LOOK AT "RENAISSANCE NORTH" - A PROJECT CONNECTED TO DEVELOPER MIKE BURKE THAT CURRENTLY BLIGHTS NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE BRIDGE!!!
Background . . .
Mike Burke's law firm did a lot of the legal work on this project that recently was settled for quite a bit of cash:
KC Biz Journal: KC makes Renaissance site suit go away for $6M
A bit of snark from our blog community . . .
"M Burke Ren North project today. Local critters luv to die there. Must need more TIF. Tours available . . ."
The tragic photo guide sent our way . . .
Our blog community and KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS have followed this project for more than five years . . .
Here's what's likely one of the definitive quotes from the comments . . .
"Mike Burke
And now readers must decide . . .
SHOULD WE CONSIDER MIKE BURKE NORTHLAND DEVELOPMENT FAIL WHEN TALKING ABOUT SIMILAR HIGH HOPES FOR THE DOWNTOWN CONVENTION HOTEL???
Rewind back even further and remember that Mayor Sly never made a big deal of this stuff when he faced Mike Burke during a mayoral contest . . . Their debate was mostly on pleasantries and public image with very few real issues discussed or debated.
Of course everybody makes mistakes and there's more than enough blame on the Northland project to go around . . . However, there's no denying that at one point the entire sales team for this doomed effort offered just as much enthusiasm and talk of eco-deveo success as proponents of the downtown Kansas City convention hotel. While these are different circumstances and different economic times, it's worth considering the TRACK RECORD of both city hall and developers involved in a deal that now excludes any questions from voters.
Developing . . .
What are his views on unsolicited bulk email?
ReplyDeletePoliticians don't remember the "deets" TKC. In much the same way that nobody ever remembers that KCMO made Sly rich with all of the employee personal injury lawsuits we settled with him.
ReplyDeleteOur tax dollars at work. Just not for you.
ReplyDeleteThe Northland is mostly blight. What isn't will be in 15 years. Disposable garbage for the locut-like plague of suburban white people.
ReplyDeleteAnd ALL OF IT is subsidized by taxpayers.
Just one more reason for KC North to break off from KC. You all can keep the airport.
DeleteSly n burke in bed, to bilk millions of public dollars, on silly ass schemes. Failed residential that won't work and hotels that wont work
ReplyDeleteNow THAT's a toot toot clunk along with 7:48's wishful thinking.
ReplyDeleteThe whole Sly versus Burke Mayoral election facade-scam finally coming home to roost.
ReplyDeleteThey both ought to be run out of town. In only their boxer shorts.
All those dead animals.....BUT....no niggers. Seems the Northland is secure for the time being.
ReplyDeleteSection Ape Housing is going up north of 152 though. The future looks bleak.
Teresa Loar was the one behind this deal. She fought for and voted for the city backing those bonds. Go check the minutes and the media reports.
ReplyDeleteOh, by the way, Tony has known all this for months. Free-speech zone, my ass.
Suckers......
Teresa Loar's involvement with some project in the Northland has been mentioned here as well as in the Star and was one topic of a shouting match between Loar and the Mayor, conspiracy boy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you need to go back to researching the Kennedy assassination.
Another day of things Tony wants to bitch about.
ReplyDeleteKeep biting lemmings. It will be the same next Sunday.
When you realize that this blog has zero purpose or influence, you will be taking one step towards reality. As part of the reality, you can not be anonymous.
Or continue to pander for Tony's need for relevance.
Always, your choice.
Or we can just hang out and make fun of him and poke holes in everything he claims, right? We can still do that I hope.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures of a post-fight Ronda Rousey lying by the storm drains were a little uncalled for.
ReplyDelete10:40: So what's your choice, 10:40? Can't help but notice you're still here.
ReplyDeleteTIF in the Northland has special problems. Those school districts tend to get Payments in Lieu of Tales --PILOTS -- so that TIFs up there rely on City-wide taxes only. the whole City tends to subsidize Northland TIFs.
ReplyDeleteNorthlanders will whine unendingly about not "getting our fair share" -- usually in connection with not having the same sidewalks roads and storm-sewers system that were built 100 years ago in the densely-populated urban core. They tend to pass lightly over their decision to move away from those amenities and spread out over an area that for reasons of size and geology makes expanding those things very expensive.
Not to mention that the money that should go to those services tends to get diverted to stuff like "Twin Crocks...er, Creeks" -- to subsidize an environmentally-wasteful boondoggle leapfrogging expansion of low-density (<5 projected residents per acre!). $35+ Million spent there -- and that is just the start -- could have done a lot for the problems of the Nothlanders who are already there.
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ReplyDeleteBest comment in the thread right up here.
There are many critics of this blog and that is fair. I think their constant readership proves that there is nothing so distasteful as to turn them away.
ReplyDeleteI will give Tony Botello credit for one thing, he is the constant watchdog of the mayor and council and because of these postings it's obvious that the Mayor's office is working on Sunday to spin their agenda. At least they don't get a free ride like they do everywhere else.
except his posts have no basis in fact one hundred percent of the time.
ReplyDeleteSo there's that.
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ReplyDeleteChecked this blog three times today.
Downtown hotel = Detroit
ReplyDeleteIs the streetcar going through this place?
ReplyDelete^^^^+1!
ReplyDeleteAs 1:47 demonstrates, any development is a boondoggle unless, of course, it's OUR boondoggle. In other words, toot toot.
Before there's a whole lot of criticism about the expectations of KCMO northland residents, it might be wise to remember that THE CITY annexed the property north of the river for whatever purposes the electeds might have had up their sleeves at the time.
ReplyDeleteAnd part of any annexation agreement are the commitments of services that the annexing municipality offers to the people who already live there.
The latest estimates of new residents enabled by the sewer/water services expansions are over 70,000. If KCMO plans to treat these folks as revenue sources and burdens, they probably should include that in the real estate information offered to developers and new home buyers.
OMG, what is your name 211?
ReplyDeletebeing Tony's bitch is not a good career move.
^^^^FOUR times.
ReplyDeleteThere is no need to research the Kennedy assassination because we TKC readers know that its was MIKE BURKE who shot Kennedy, and he was assisted by SLY JAMES! Shocking and true! All part of a massive kickback scheme in which the FBI was complicit!
ReplyDelete^^^^^That makes FIVE times!
ReplyDelete11:55 FTW !!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a bad deal, don't care about burke, what I do care about it KCMO handing over $35 million that investors should come to the table with. Why are we subsidizing this deal?
ReplyDeleteIf this is such a bad deal, why didn't Loar and her other 11 council buds vote against it?
ReplyDeleteThe northland had no say in annexation. Missouri law at the time said all a city needed to do was have the citizens of the city vote on a charter amendment and they could annex the area without the citizens being annexed having a say.
ReplyDeleteNorth Kansas City actually beat KCMO to the punch on annexing part of Clay County and from 1946-1950 there were lawsuits filed on both sides. Gladstone, Claycomo and other areas in Clay County organized at this time as well to stop becoming part of KCMO.
The reason KCMO leaped the river in the first place was because Cookingham and Bartle said the city was growing unproportionally to the south.
Today, the northland accounts for 51 percent of KCMO's land mass, provides about 45% of the tax base, but only receives about 12% of the PIAC dollars.
Maybe its time the northland de-annex from KCMO, then we can see how much south of the river gets done without us. And how much better the Northland becomes.
I see someone has pulled out the crack pipe.
ReplyDeleteBack straps and butt steaks. Somebody is eating well.
ReplyDeleteAnd the area from the river to brush creek, between state line and Troost provides over 50% of the city's tax base, while only accounting for less than 1/6th of it's land mass.
ReplyDelete^^^^Does this make six visits or do we start the count over every day?
ReplyDeleteBTW, that would be "its," trolley boy. Your western Kansas GED is showing.