A new sneak peek at this place reveals that they've to everything but a sustainable biz model that doesn't involve decades of taxpayer subsidy.
Take a look:
Take a look:
After $39 million in renovations, new Hy-Vee Arena set to open in September
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Hy-Vee Arena is getting closer to its opening day. It used to be called the Kemper Arena years ago, but thanks to $39 million in renovations, it has new life. The arena was vacant for a long time, and it cost the city a million dollars a year.
No way keeping an empty unused building costs any million dollars a year. If it does who ever was in charge of it should be fired.
ReplyDeleteThe hood rats will have the arena torn up in less than a year.
ReplyDelete...and you wont be around to see it. Win win.
ReplyDeleteRemember when Emmanuel Cleaver wanted a $75 million renovation of Kemper? So KC did that only to be told a few years later that we
ReplyDeleteneeded a new arena. Thanks, Cleaver.
How long until the first shooting?
ReplyDeleteBut de peepuls be needin' dat place to be playin' B-Ball!
ReplyDeleteLawd knows dey ain't noplace else in dis town fo dat!
Who would have thought that a 20,000 seat arena in the abandoned stockyards miles from civilization where the only access is taking a two lane bridge down by into a hellscape would be unsuccessful?
ReplyDeleteI'm actually surprised Kemper is still alive. It was a bad idea from the beginning but it's still plodding along. God damn it sucks though and you legitimately couldn't draw up a worse location for anything.
^^See geezer, you outed yourself! You haven't been to the bottoms in decades. It's not like that, you would know if you actually got out of the house this decade. Here's an idea, maybe know what the fuck you're talking about before you run your geriatric mouth!
ReplyDelete8:19--Over/Under 3 weeks
ReplyDeleteIt only cost $50,000 per team, 12 games guaranteed, what's the problem?
ReplyDeleteKemper Arena was a revolutionary design at the time. It is modular built on a designed slab. It could have been disassembled and rebuilt where the Sprint Center is. Of course making do with what you have is not sexy enough to ole KC. A conservation city government would have been a blessing over the last 30 years. #walkaway
ReplyDeleteThese folks will be at KCMO city hall looking for operating subsidies within 18 months of Kemper's grand re-opening.
ReplyDeleteAnd the violence and shootings around the place at night will speed its need for taxpayer money.
Just another tent along the carnival midway in downtown taxpayer-funded KCMO fantasyland.
Are we Portland yet?
it looks cool. let's hope it works.
ReplyDeleteif it does, it could solidify a trend towards renewal all around it.