Taxpayer backed corporate welfare helped establish this Midtown Kansas City political hangout . . .Now look at the new digs in question that will likely earn even more subsidy from friendly politicos. Here's the plan:
Redevelopment in works for Uptown Shoppes
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Uptown Shoppes at 36th Street and Broadway Avenue could soon be transformed into a mixed-use development. Currently, there are several empty storefronts with only a handful of tenants occupying the space long-term and a few others, including Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill's reelection campaign, renting space on a short-term basis.
Could someone tell me where Sly’s money orchard is located, because it obviously grows on trees in KCMO.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shithole area of town. No one with money shops there. Only the thieving residents go there to shoplift or ask Claire for free stuff if they vote for her (she will say, "hell yes! I'll keep on voting for free stuff for you! Hard working Missourians are all about helping out the lazy and shiftless residents of Midtown!").
ReplyDelete"The breaks include an exemption on sales tax for construction-related materials, giving the property owner ten years without having to pay property taxes followed by 15 years of paying 50 percent of property taxes, plus other incentives."
ReplyDeleteEveryone else who isn't a mixed use or luxury developer please bend over and lube up please.
it's worth trying to save the uptown area, imho. it's a great location and young people will locate there if it gets updated and momentum is positive.
ReplyDeleteThe Uptown Area: Another place none of you geezers has ever been.
ReplyDeleteHey Dumbfuck,
DeleteWhy don’t you enhance your know-it-all attitude by studying some KC history. Do you think your generation created the “Uptown Area?” I guarantee you most “geezers” had been there and done that long before your dad fucked his sister to create you.
This is one of the more ideal locations that could benefit from TIF stuff and I hate seeing tax money allocated to business. But it could be a good idea here.
ReplyDeleteProblem with this little area/pocket is there are quite a few lower income high rises around there that brings in the shit people. The grocery store that was there was pretty crappy and one of the worst ones I can remember going to. They really need high end shit there to make a statement that poor people and criminals are not welcome so it can develop instead of being stuck in the purgatory it has been for the last 30 plus years
Interesting comment. I’m betting the majority of people who live there now or would move there after gentrification are liberals, yet it seems you think “lower income” and “poor “ people need to feel unwelcome in order for the proposed project to be successful?
DeleteActually there's a Papa Murphy's as well as good Caribbean/Ethiopian restaurant (Mesob) in this shopping center, and others directly across Broadway. For those who claim that this is a "shit hole" part of town, drop by and find out how wrong you are.
ReplyDelete^^Hey dumbfuck was what you thought your name was for the first 16 years of your life.
ReplyDelete"Problem with this little area/pocket is there are quite a few lower income high rises" fck u.
ReplyDeleteWe lived in the area almost 50 years ago. It was a dump then with sketchy characters wandering around all hours of the day and night. Now it's even worse. KCMO needs to just say NO.
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