DOUBLE SHOOTING AT LINWOOD SHOPPING CENTER GROCERY STORE DEMONSTRATES FOOLHARDY KANSAS CITY URBAN CORE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY!!!



Gunfire at a Kansas City urban core grocery store sparked panic across the metro as racist trolls and political hacks attempt to use shooting of an innocent youngster girl to justify their pathetic agenda.

The racists and those charged with sounding their dog whistle politics claim the violent episode proves that "food deserts" are deserved and "that's the reason" why there aren't any successful inner-city grocery stores.

Wrong.

The people who tout that kind of garbage only reveal that they don't know Kansas City and they rarely visit the urban core but would rather make prognostications from distant, bland, vapid and desolate suburbs.

Here at TKC, we've had our nose buried in the urban core of this town for longer than most other newsies currently working today.

Those who claim a grocery biz can't work in KC proper only need to be slapped with the success story of Leon's Thriftway - The oldest Black-Owned grocery store in the nation. We're not saying the place doesn't have its challenges but at 50 years running, there is no denying the guy knows his biz and disproves myths on the viability of an urban core food outlet .

We know that place because we shopped there for a few years along with TKC fam who also frequented the modest establishment for more than a quarter century.

But in this instance, it's important to understand that the tax help garnered by Leon's Thriftway is MINUSCULE compared with the hype and cash by-in enjoyed by the Linwood Shopping Center grocery store.

And this brings us to our main takeaway . . .

MAYOR SLY AND CITY COUNCIL PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE GROCERY BIZ HAS NOW ENDANGERED KANSAS CITY LIVES AND WILL COST TAXPAYERS MILLIONS!!!

Remember in the midst of Summer the KCMO mayor, Council members Quinton Lucas, Jermaine Reed and Scott Taylor and a slew of other politicos, revs & activists celebrated an investment of $950K to start and more than $1.3-5 million total so far to buy into the grocery biz without investing much in security.



The opening was troubled by wholesale shrinkage (stealing) and frustration with management.

Yesterday that security trouble was punctuated by gunfire.

KMBC: Man, teenage girl shot inside Sun Fresh Market

Fox4: Witnesses describe ‘hysterical’ scene as bullets fly inside Sun Fresh grocery store

Now, don't get it twisted, we agree with our Conservative pals that the "food desert" hype is merely a buzzword used to justify government handouts.

Again, compare this overwhelming state-of-the-art new grocery store with the far more humble & workable record of success at the place just off The Paseo. 

The fact is, despite the protestations of foodie crusaders, it wasn't racism or social injustice or anything but THE FREE MARKET which shut down the Linwood location . . .



The current, sad reality . . .

Mayor Sly and City Council have shown an unhealthy disrespect for both consumers & capitalism with their political giveaways to eager developers.

Whether it's luxury living space, grocery stores, hotels, airports or tourist trap schemes . . . The denizens of 12th & Oak feel strangely entitled to gamble with taxpayer cash on businesses they don't really understand. Even worse, they're easily duped by people who do know their biz and don't have any qualms about fleecing taxpayers for big bucks by way of catering to hapless elected officials fueled by ego and nearly predatory avarice.

The reality:

The grocery biz has no politics. 

However . . .

ONCE AGAIN THE IMBECILIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF CITY HALL SUFFERS ANOTHER HUMILIATING DEFEAT AND NOW CONFRONTS A COSTLY ENDEAVOR WHICH ULTIMATELY BURDENS KCMO TAXPAYERS!!!

From the Downtown Renaissance to Northland corporate housing gone bust . . . City Hall compulsive gambling with taxpayer cash almost never succeeds whilst locals are forced to tolerate government officials who talk a good game about local business while playing with other people's money.

You decide . . .

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  1. Leon's is a dump but I hear what you're saying, sister. Sly isn't a grocery clerk an any way other than having to bring home the bacon for his donors.

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    1. Shootings happen on Prospect all the time. I would like to know what security measures they're taking to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. I don't know if you've been to this store TKC but I have and it's beautiful. We can't afford to lose this place because people are scared to go there and I don't agree with much of what your'e saying here.

      KC needs this store to work. Let's focus on that.

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    2. Not the first or the last shooting that will happen here. Just part of a continued pattern whether you realize it or not.

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  2. How much will it cost?

    Somebody is going to get killed there and it will be a ghost town. If you love your family, I wouldn't take them there to do weekend shopping.

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  3. Son of a bitch this shit gets old. Mutherfuks can't have anything nice. I see some of the shizz about black people but look out in Independence and you'll see a lot of grocery stores closed too. Welcome to Trump world where everybody buys Sunday dinner at the 7-11.

    And yes beatch. I'm white.

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  4. Shrieking madmen accosting passers-by, junkies shooting up on the street, feces on the sidewalk, bum encampments in public parks - planners embrace this as "vibrancy"!

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  5. @9:22 WTF does this have to due with Trump?
    I believe nice grocery stores operated in safe neighborhoods during the Obama years, asshole.

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  6. @9:22 your post is so stupid and so out there, it's sad someone like you is able to vote.

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  7. You know TKC, I think this is the lowest you have ever sunk.

    You talk about the council and mayor not understanding business but it's clear that you don't understand policy.

    Both the mayor and city hall are REQUIRED and MANDATED to help the urban core succeed and this grocery store went a long way toward doing that. I was at the opening, were you? I saw dozens of people who were encouraged and happy about the progress our city is making and grateful that it was benefiting them.

    What you are doing is creating panic by highlighting this shooting not once but twice.

    That really is disgusting that you talk about it again today under the guise of a policy discussion. We're talking about human lives and feeding people, not cold balance sheets and city ordinances or stats that you callously bring up.

    This is about connecting with people and building momentum in one community after the next, that's what the mayor and most of the council are trying to do.

    Again, I ask you. What have you built? The Mayor helped to bring a grocery store to people who needed and he gets nothing but criticism from you and your readers. That is totally unfair and uncalled for.

    If you have a solution than you should try it, what I see here is a lot of people who love to criticize but never want to help.

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    1. Monkeys
      Love
      Killing

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    2. Small dicks talk shit.

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    3. Listen, you shameless flunky. When basic services are left untended, when central civic problems such as runaway violent crime goes unaddressed, you can expect some expressions of discontent.

      Your masters at city hall, themselves only dancing puppets, are a clown car of grift and incompetence that have nearly ruined this town.

      Solutions to this are YOUR job. Not acting the fool ordering Amazon, not playing with action figures, not drumming up grievance business in the very communities where blood is flowing that you are ignoring.

      Shame on you.

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    4. "You know TKC, I think this is the lowest you have ever sunk."

      Oh, just wait until tomorrow.

      And once again the issue is the same old issue Tony refuses to even acknowledge.

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    5. So Gopher, riddle me this. Let’s say you and Big Poppa adopt a teenager. Teen gets a part-time job but needs a car to get to work. You buy him one but he quickly crashes it being reckless. You replace the car and same thing happens again. When do finally say enough and quit doling out to a people that ruin EVERYTHING in their area? This isn’t a new scenario. I know it makes liberals like you feel good to think you’re helping, but you’re not; you’re enabling a bad cycle that will continue until someone nips it in the bud.

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  8. Trump racism alive and well..

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    1. Holy shit, Trump racism shot that girl amirite?

      No, sorry, it was someone from our own private Mogadishu.

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  9. "Both the mayor and city hall are REQUIRED and MANDATED to help the urban core succeed"


    LOL right basically steering the city to bankruptcy is helping us succeed okay Go4KC.

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  10. 9:53 says "The Mayor helped to bring a grocery store to people who needed [it]." But he didn't, and they didn't. What the Mayor did (as usual) was cave to the demands of an influential developer, Don Maxwell, who needed city money to turn a nice profit from his bad investment.

    The area was not a food desert. There's an ALDI a few blocks away, and a bus that runs up and down Prospect to get people to and from it. There is a smaller grocery store even closer, also with public transport to and from.

    The "momentum" you keep talking about is a smoke screen for continuing reckless expenditure of taxpayer money for personal political gain. If you and Sly James really want to help, use the money to repair the city's crumbling infrastructure and not keep wasting it on projects that will look good on the Mayor's resume but are of little real help to Kansas Citians.

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  11. Helping the urban core succeed by giving them a place to shoplift from at taxpayers expense.

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  12. Go4KC - Why don't you write about the Hillside Motel ? MOMENTUM!

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  13. This is why all the black people from east of Troost drive to the Brookside Price Chopper to shop for groceries.

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  14. Would like to see Leon's store...bet he does not put up with black shit...no backpacks allowed and I bet they profile and watch the shoppers like hawks...you know shit that would never be allowed by a white owned store in a white neighborhood.

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  15. Waste of building materials and labor. Hot takis you dip shit, indy doesn't have one 15th of the murders prospect does, shuttered grocerers ok,but were talking run n gun in aisle12 here

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  16. The whole City Council and the City Manager should resign over this foolhardy demonstration that their goal is to divert as much tax revenue to pet projects which make no financial sense.
    I wish the State would take over the management of this City...

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  17. "I din't see nuffin'".

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  18. "Go4KC" (or Chris, or Troy, or whoever you are hiding behind that silly name), it would help you to understand things said here if you had a grasp of the Economic System we have in this Country.

    At it's simplest, if there is an economic justification for a business to exist, then it will happen. If that justification continues, then the business will continue to exist.

    You can create false "businesses" out of motives from the Political Left (the People need this/ this will make things better) or from the Political Right(this Company is too big to be allowed to fail/we need these Jobs), but in either instance all that is happening is a wasting of resources on an entity that does not have or no longer has
    the economic justification for existence, and is therefore doomed.

    I wish it were different, but there is plenty of evidence that it is not, after large numbers of Left and Right Wing "dreams and schemes" that have only postponed failure.

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  19. Here Go4KC suck on this a while and then tell me it isn't the truth you fucking low life nobody.

    Sorry Super Dave if you didn't want this posted over here but what you said is correct and that retard needs to see it.
    Super Dave said,
    When a person can no longer go to a store to buy food for their families without the fear of violence one has to take a huge step backwards and question why the leaders of your city look the other way when dealing with violence. Building new buildings will not protect the people from crime on the streets. Our leaders need to be building a working purposeful law enforcement presence on the streets committed to not only preventing but aggressively attacking crime on all levels backed by an even tougher more purposeful set of courts and prosecutors willing to keep those off the streets that need to be incarcerated for crimes against all humanity.

    Spending those millions wasted on street cars and the desires to spend even more on such wasteful extravagances needs to stop now. Use that money to hire the personal to keep the citizens safe and to build the kind of jails needed to house those who no longer want to be a part of a sane and peaceful society.

    If the next group of political wannabes do not have improving public safety as the number one reason for seeking office then don't give them your votes. If after being elected they lied to you remember come next election to vote them out.

    The taxpayers own the city and the taxpayers have a right to feel safe when walking on the streets they pay for.
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  20. Gopherkc, where do you think sLIE gets all this money to blow on lost causes? we have built everything with our over taxed paychecks, are you really that stupid? You’ve done nothing but promote a out of control mayor, city manager and worthless city council. There’s multiple grocery stores within three miles of there so it’s not a food desert, just another scam to give away our money.

    Without us you have nothing so remember that moron.

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  21. Hey gopherkc, we have the same first amendment rights you have, you do not have the right to control what’s said here or anywhere else for that matter, you work for us remember.

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  22. Listen "Go4KC", I fail to understand why you think it is acceptable for the Mayor and Council to hand Tax money to yet another Bribe-slinging Developer so they can put existing long-standing Grocery stores in the same area out of business! If the "Nobility" at City Hall is "mandated" to help the Inner City, why not help the existing businesses that have been struggling for years to stay open there?

    Oh, and near where I live, there is a continuous pothole running down the center of North Campbell for two entire City Blocks between North 43rd and 44th Streets! It varies in width from about three inches to well over a foot. Repeated calls to the City, both 311 and the Street Department over the last four years have had no results.

    Is there any chance at all that one of the "mandates" the Mayor and Council work so diligently under could either get the damn thing fixed or at least send someone out to mow the grass growing out of it?

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    1. The mayor and a lot of the city council do not give two flips about anything north of the river. I mean, why would they? We actually pay our taxes, keep up our property, vote, try not to cause too much drama, I guess we're just too normal. It is interesting, though, that when there are sidewalks, streets, etc. needing attention it all falls on deaf ears downtown. This isn't the first time I've heard of city services being requested and...nothing.

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  23. ^^^ they don’t give a damn about anything outside the downtown loop, just so you know we are all getting screwed to death by a worthless city government

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  24. QUESTION

    If I'm at the KCMO-financed grocery store and become the victim of violence when a gunfight breaks out in the aisles or parking lot, wouldn't my attorney sue the city of KCMO as a negligent party who failed to protect me?

    How many millions of dollars do you think the city will be forced to payout in settlements?

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  25. I have been watching the shopping center near Prospect and Emmanuel Cleaver Blvd. It has a Sunfresh, a McDonald's kiosk, and several other stores, with a Sonic nearby. It seems to be doing very well, and I hope that the neighborhood continues to patronize it. Retail can work in the urban core if built and managed correctly. My hope and expectation is that the location will thrive and be very profitable for everyone.

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  26. The sun fresh building is being rebuilt into a planet fitness, there isn’t a grocery store down there. I don’t know where your getting your info from but Ollie gates owns that building.

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  27. Sunfresh is on blue pkwy east of there about two miles away dummy

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  28. Planet fitness is being built without permits too, gates is too cheap to pay for them or he gets special privileges, my guess is both.

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  29. 1:44 and we all know which law firm will be handling those cases. James & Noland, LLC is who will cash in.

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  30. Just bulldoze the entire shithole urban core, send all the residents to live in Shithole Utah with the inbred Mormons. Then we don’t need any grocery stores and crime will go way down.

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  31. Go4KC needs to inform the citizens of KCMO about where the Eastside improvement tax funds are being used. They sure are not being used on the Eastside. These taxes have been collected for approximately one year ant the taxpayers on the Eastside are still waiting for what Slie promised them. That area is part of the urban core and Slie has dropped them.
    Solution: city government needs to do what they told the people they were going to do.

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  32. They make bullet proof backpacks, what about bullet proof shopping bags ?

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  33. Market
    Lacks
    Kustomers

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  34. Love how low the bar is for black people. This city has all kinds of different grocery stores. The regular ones, Mexican, Filipino, Brazilian, Italian, you name it. Those stores don't have to have subsidies. You can take a diaper bag into them. You won't get shot at them. Theft isn't at an incredible rate. People or corporatioms own them, they arent subsidized by a city government. Notice anything here? Why is it the non-black entities dont have these problems?

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  35. Shortly after the Linwood City build out was announce the City Manager announced that he was the COO of the City and he was just there to implement the City Counsels programs.

    This city has all kinds of different grocery stores. The regular ones, Mexican, Filipino, Brazilian, Italian, you name it. Those stores don't have to have subsidies. You can take a diaper bag into them. You won't get shot at them. Theft isn't at an incredible rate. People or corporations own them, they aren't subsidized by a city government. Notice anything here? Why is it the non-black entities don't have these problems?

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