TKC FACT CHECK: SMALL BIZ ABANDONS CITY MARKET THANKS TO DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR!!!
Fake news surveys by City Hall touting the success of the toy train seem to overlook the growing number of Kansas City small biz giving up on the City Market.
Here's the latest merchant who decided to abandon the district now cut off by bad local planning.
A KICK-ASS TKC READER comment on the departure:
"KC streetcar is harming downtown small-businesses. They have claimed yet another victim. Will the last small business forced out of River Market by the trolley, please turn the lights off?"
Like it or not, biz closing makes a much bigger impression than surveys City Hall has skewed for years and always seem to signal that KCMO residents are happy with their lot in life despite stagnant population numbers while the suburbs boom.
The reality is: Only one media outlet picked up the story about the streetcar small biz boom while the downtown restaurant community was crippled by streetcar construction and doesn't seem to be singing many praises to day.
You decide . . .
If we just build another line across the city.
ReplyDeleteThat'll fix everything!
Please don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
DeleteBut I thought Trump wanted more infrastructure?
ReplyDeleteif he street car is so great why does the city keep buying new busses?
ReplyDeleteDing Ding Ding goes the Trolley!
ReplyDeleteTime to get out.... Kansas City the New Detroit.
ReplyDeleteWeez vibrant, woild clazz, frozty, and ain't nuttin nobody cin do bout it!
ReplyDeleteIf this business had just offered organic kale smoothies and beard wax they probably would have done great with the tens of thousands of sophisticated millenial urban denizens.
ReplyDeleteMarket analysis is always so important.
Maybe they should have used the same consulting/polling firm that regularly comes up with numbers that show the tremendous successes of downtown subsidized development.
A publicly-subsidized amusement park for 22 year-olds.
Whose short attention-spans are already shifting to THE NEXT BIG THING.
The circus continues.
River Market is dead. Sly killed it. Thanks Mr. Mayor!
ReplyDeleteSuper Dave called it days ago.
ReplyDeleteBusiness owner: "I'm leaving to spend more time with my family."
ReplyDeleteIdiots: "STREETCAR CLAIMS ANOTHER BUSINESS!!!"
Really?
Are you people THAT delusional?
Also, Tony, it looks like all the restaurants on the edge of oblivion seemed to have survived.
Funny how that works. But when you are unable to put names to your fanciful statements, the only thing that takes a beating is your credibility.
Which has suffered such a severe beating, it continues to be on life support.
So you're bitching about an off the record comment but doing so anonymously. Doesn't that seem just a tad hypocritical to you?
DeleteAs for the business in the city market, many of us have complained about the streetcar and the traffic problems it is creating.
http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/businesses-weigh-in-on-kansas-city-streetcar-parking-problem
People like @7:46 have used our names and seek to target us economically and harass our employers and customers whenever we address our concerns in public. But you @7:46 sit around here like a rat and attack the messenger or try to discount what a disaster this streetcar has been on our businesses. Have you no shame, sir? At long last have you no shame?
We already know Tony has no shame. But thanks.
DeleteThey need to turn the city market into on giant "U" shaped Chinese buffet. Anyone know if Cleaver can get us some Fed money?
ReplyDeletePut in a Church's fried chicken joint there , that will make it a safe place , just like the DMZ Plaza shit hole ! The Boyz gunna hanging out making it a crime free zone for ALL THE young white people who are TRANNY mount BITCHES to enjoy the weekend !
ReplyDeleteSorry 8:02. I will never be back. It's not what is was and never will be. There are many BETTER markets. With real farm fresh food, not salvage produce that they sell out of the caves.
ReplyDeleteIs Jim Claxton afraid? Should be. The Street car will NEVER pay for it self, show 1 Place that has opened because of it and 1 place that is in the black because of it. Lets see the books! SLY LIES !
ReplyDeleteHey there , you are so much correct , the crap that is for sale there looks and smells like it came out of a Plaza restaurants dumpster ! But the shit out hole Diebels would be happy to sell the crap !
ReplyDelete8:02: Agree. Trolley boy (7:46) is a delusional, ethically challenged and self-interested troll. I used to enjoy going to City Market on Saturdays, but getting there and finding a place to park has made what used to be enjoyable a hassle, and I don't need any more hassles. With stores like Sprouts and even HyVee offering more produce varieties the streetcar may just have put City Market past its sell by date.
ReplyDeleteFunny how Diane Stafford at the KC Star overlooked this significant development when she was writing yet another “cheer leading” article.
ReplyDeleteBefore the streetcar was built, David Johnson promised it would attract new businesses to the area. All those empty storefronts with For Rent signs in the window remain along the trolley route.
ReplyDeleteToot toot. Empty. Empty. The streetcar to nowhere. Clunk.
ReplyDeleteMore businesses would be closing and leaving if they could sell their property. No one is buying buildings or property in the River Market area. It has become a depressed area of no interest to developers.
ReplyDeleteCould we put in a ferris wheel for those waiting for the street car. Maybe just move worlds of Fun to the river market when the other businesses quit. All of the carnival and amusement rides together.
ReplyDeleteHouston's closed because of the toy train, too! And it's why NASA can't afford to fly to Mars. Also to blame for Clinton trouncing baby-hands in the popular vote.
ReplyDelete^^^^^Toot toot. Hoot. Big time clunk.
ReplyDeleteI was in the river market today for the winter it was busy but finding a place to park takes time
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