KANSAS CITY WHITE KNIGHT CRUSADE: CAN BUTCH RIGBY CONNECT EAST SIDE WITH BROOKSIDE OR IS THIS JUST ANOTHER ONE OF HIS BAD IDEAS?!?!
Recently, local biz news celebrates the ongoing adventures of a Kansas City biz dude dreamer.
A fair use peek behind the flimsy paywall for the purposes of news, parody and education . . .
KC Biz Journal: Connecting Brookside to the East Side - Butch Rigby takes aim at erasing Kansas City's racial and development dividing line.
The premise via snippet . . .
"Developer Butch Rigby isn’t on a mission to reproduce Brookside — he wants to extend it. With Brookside East, Rigby is redeveloping a stretch of 63rd Street without ripping up its roots. The aim is to conjure the Brookside name without Brookside rents, and to quietly and deliberately guide the look and feel of Brookside toward the traditional dividing line of Troost Avenue...
"Rigby’s company, BB63 LLC, began buying and renovating buildings along 63rd Street in November 2014. It now owns the buildings housing Unbakery and Juicery, Jewish Family Services, Brookside Gardens Events Space and four other commercial buildings. In dollar terms, his investment in the corridor exceeds $15 million. But he said he also has found himself invested in the larger neighborhood’s success . . ."
Read the whole story at the KC Biz Journal.
The more important question . . .
CAN BUTCH RIGBY CONNECT EAST SIDE WITH BROOKSIDE OR IS THIS JUST GENTRIFICATION IN DISGUISE?!?
You decide . . .
A simple & frequent walk?
ReplyDeleteDo you mean all the burglars in Brookside? Right?
More profitable than that?
Unlikely.
I think we should put some Section 8 in Brookside.
ReplyDeleteSo in other words he's begging for taxpayer subsidies.
ReplyDelete^^Look, none of you geezers has ever been to the redeveloped areas this article is talking about. You don't have a clue. It's nice what he is doing. He has really transformed that area. This city needs more leaders like him willing to invest the heart of the city. This area isn't for you.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^^ I'm pretty sure geezers know Brookside. Stop sucking Butch's dick for his tax breaks. He won't share them with you. Just ask his ex wife.
Delete^^^^Pretty sure you don't. You are nowhere to found in its store, restaurants and bars. Stick to what you know pops-Matlock and tapioca. Thanks for playing.
ReplyDeleteHe's a local person investing his own money in the area so I trust him more than e.g. cordish
ReplyDeleteNo, he cannot united the east side of troost with brookside and I'm pretty sure no one wants that
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ReplyDeleteYou can build all you want and it will just go down hill unlike what geezer hater says you have to rid the criminals first and that's not going to happen because of the type of people K.C. has on the east side. Huge waste of time and money unless you make some pricey houses, rents, and shops to run them out, sad but true!
Ask butch how his “save the Walt Disney building” is doing after 20 years of doing nothing, the man is a con artist looking for a hand out, that’s it.
ReplyDeleteI like tapioca, who doesn’t? it’s good! And I’m not even close to being a geezer! 9:50 You must’ve grown up in a trailer with parents who wished they’d never had you, that’s truly sad.
ReplyDeleteIs matlock still on tv? That was a pretty decent show back in the day, hey geezer hater, tell me what time and channel it comes on so I can record it!
ReplyDelete@10:46AM-It's the criminals!!! It's the criminals! We are being overrun!!! Help us God!!!!!!! We have to run them out!!!! Oh God! Oh God! Help us Lord. So. Much. Crime! It's everywhere!!!!!
ReplyDelete^^^ Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
ReplyDelete^^Right! It's scary out there! Don't these fools know that it's best to never, ever, leave your house! You have to hide under your bed every day! Don't ever go anywhere!!! It's dangerous!! My God! I'm really, really scared you guys!
ReplyDeleteThis is all just whistling past the graveyard. Ask people at the Plaza if they feel more "integrated" with the East side.
ReplyDelete12:36 you should be, once your Grammie dies you got no one left to take care of you
ReplyDeleteButch is a great guy...at least he is trying to do something, and at least now he does not have that ex wife dragging him down.
ReplyDeleteIn order to save KC you need to gentrify the shit out of it. Hoodrats can't take care of anything. Even Sly's wife is white. Drive the hoodrats to Joco or east out of the city.
ReplyDeleteYou are the wrong color Butch or you'd have a Disney plays Jazz museum extravaganza on MLK/63rd street.
ReplyDeleteWe need more developers like Butch Rigby. Haters are stupid and uninformed about his progressive work in Kansas City.
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