Another devastating loss for Downtown and the local tourism economy . . . Take a look:
KC Biz Journal: One of Kansas City’s biggest — and most-visible — annual meetings will go virtual this year because of Covid-19 concerns.
Cerner Corp. notified Mayor Quinton Lucas late Tuesday that it will take its 2020 Cerner Health Conference online. The event, scheduled for Oct. 12-14, was expected to have nearly $12.5 million in local economic impact.
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The impact is much more than $12.5 million. Endless efforts to minimize the financial bad news. The pandemic will highlight the value of virtual collaboration. The tools for virtual collaboration aren't very good but are getting better quick. The organizations have good reason to improve the tools, now.
ReplyDeleteAnd it still won’t matter to Kathryn shields, she will still spend and give away all our tax money on the wrong things
ReplyDeleteonline isn't the same as in person.
ReplyDeleteCan't they do it at the Sly Burk hotel?
ReplyDeleteIf only Mexico had payed for the wall...
ReplyDeleteA Go Chiefs tweet from Lucas should be popping up on his feed soon.
ReplyDeleteGood. All conventions should be held virtually. It’s safe and people won’t get sick while riding the streetcar.
ReplyDeleteThe tariffs the Chinese are paying should offset this real good.
ReplyDelete^^^ Dumbass. The Chinese aren't paying the tariffs (taxes). American Citizens are paying the taxes.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of ... hey Deplorables. It's 5 o'clock somewhere. Time for your hydroxychloroquine overdose, huff of Lysol, and shot of Clorox. Salud!
Don't bother trying. We know Trump did not say anything like that. Try subtlety for a change. Blatant lying is obviously not working for you.
ReplyDeleteThe long-term damage to the convention industry will be large. As companies realize that virtual meetings and networking are effective and much more efficient than large in-person gatherings, they will drastically reduce spending for employee attendance at conferences and the like.
ReplyDeleteCerner has only gone downhill over the years. CEO Patterson (RIP) gave them some good direction, but the place has never been employee-focused. With all the horror stories, the turnover there has got to be out of sight.
ReplyDeleteMore conferences and conventions were already going online even before the virus, which has just accelerated the trend.
ReplyDeleteKCMO hasn't been a serious convention town for decades and all the "investment" downtown and millions more wasted on silliness like THE streetcar has all been simply throwing money at yesterday's news.
Soon there'll be a whole new set of books and lectures from the usual suspect "urban futurists" which will convince clueless electeds like Lucas and the gang that many hundreds of millions more MUST be spent on the latest BIG BIG ideas, or they'll be left behind.
History simply repeating itself and the taxpayers left picking up the tab.
The Ghost Hotel Lowes. Kansas City. Such a lovely place. Plenty of room at the Lowes Kansas City Any time of year you can grab a Beer.
ReplyDeleteIs this what Trump means by a V-shaped recovery? Bouncing back bigger and better than ever?
ReplyDeleteHe is going to be so disappointed.
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ReplyDeleteNail on head with that post. Somehow coming out of this our elected officials will land on the idea that the best way to fix the city's lagging convention presence is to spend and divert more tax dollars to expanding Bartle Hall or building another hotel that the city is already over saturated with.
This city NEVER learns. If you want to know whether or not something is a good idea, follow the money. If you follow the money trail, it'll lead you to the truth. If a developer is telling you that they need millions of dollars from the city to make a project financially viable then that is a hot, blazing red flag that it's probably not a good idea and the city has no business "investing" (which is more like donating) in the project. And this city has been burned REPEATEDLY over that kind of madness.
#KorruptCity