Solution: Turn Empty Kansas City Waddell & Reed HQ Into Affordable Housing?!?

The aftermath of a devastating loss inside the loop has politicos playing the blame game despite dire economic circumstances.

A fact of life . . .

KSHB: Macquarie Asset Management ‘contractually committed’ to downtown Waddell & Reed headquarters

Deets . . .

“Macquarie is contractually committed to lease or sublease the Class A office space and the developer is committed to constructing the building to completion,” KCMO Mayor Quinton Lucas’ office said Wednesday in a statement. “The developer has shared that the project remains on time and on budget.”

"The Waddell & Reed headquarters building is a $140 million project at West 14th Street and Baltimore Avenue in downtown KCMO.

"The mayor’s office went on to note that “this deal was hatched under a prior administration,” but Lucas voted to authorize the project four months after becoming mayor . . .

“The City expects the 1400 Baltimore building to be a strong asset for office relocations to downtown Kansas City,” Lucas’ office said in a statement. “The project also will support much-needed parking demand due to the shuttered and expensive-to-replace Barney Allis Plaza garage.”

TRANSLATION: THERE'S NO PLAN FOR THE EMPTY BUILDING!!!

But not all hope is lost.

Reader suggestion that has shown us the way . . .

WSJ: New York Could Turn Hotels, Office Buildings Into Affordable Housing Under State Senate Bill

Link without the paywall . . .

Realator: Can Empty Offices Become Affordable Housing?

Sadly, this "solution" won't make everyone happy but it's a plan that's just as sketchy as all of the pre-COVID real estate speculation inside the loop.

Developing . . .

Comments

  1. homeless shelter.

    Think about it.

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  2. ANYTHING can become affordable housing.
    You just need to find someone to pay the note.
    Dig deep, KCMO taxpayers!

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  3. Maybe they can design apartments that look and work like mobile homes so Bandit can move in.

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  4. Lets make it into a sanitarium for all MAGA, Q-anon and others that think Trump will regain the Presidency. Lock em up! If they work for you - fire them. They are DOMESTIC TERORISTS!

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  5. ^^ Whippersnapper Weenie is back on the board again!

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  6. ^^and yet you don't have any idea who's making these posts do ya poppy? Cause I sure as hell didn't. LOL! Weird.

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  7. Call 1-800-DUMBASS on Whippersnapper Weenie because, well, he's a dumbass.

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  8. Gay Bathhouse !!

    Says Chudley and his downtown Chudley buttboys

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  9. The guy making the same posts is the guy who doesn't know what the hell a comma is. Public education failed him.

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  10. Kansas City School district

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  11. Cgc is right. Homeless shelter but fumigating Bartle also needs to be done.

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  12. ^^You don't live here CHUD! This is not your town. Give that advice to Belton fucktard!

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  13. Pack it with Democrats and burn it.

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  14. I'm sure that they will have no problem filling it with all of these businesses that are flocking to Kansas City.
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  15. Section 8..why not..who the hell else would wanna live downtown these days..

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  16. Section 8 in the military are crazies. In public house... same thing. Never mind! 😏

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  17. ^^Go away. You're only talking to yourself.

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  18. an empty tower on baltimore will be a nice compliment to the empty arena on grand

    Momentum!

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  19. And empty places in other areas of KCMO.

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  20. ^^and yet something else will move in. it always does. Weird.

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  21. MAGA? Why? America was already great before Trump! Its been great since George Washington. How dare Trump claim the USA is NOT great!

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  22. They tried this once before, was called the Wayne Miner Housing Development and the low incomers destroyed the place so bad they tore it down.

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  23. ^^You don’t live here. Go away. Nobody cares what an outsider thinks. Bye bye!

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  24. Fuck you 4:52, I do care so STFU and go away.

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  25. When Barney Allis caves in fill the hole with this building.

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  26. Gubmint housing is the solution to nothing. Make it a homeless shelter and fumigate Bartle or implode it. It won't be filled with office space no matter how hard anyone hopes.

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    1. There will still be tent cities because those pesky homeless still wanna be homeless, LOL

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  27. I think I see the same moron chirping “weird” in every comment posting on the Fox 4 news FB comments. Wish their was a way to filter out the imbeciles on this site. They’re trashing up my feed.

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  28. Smart companies have learned from the virus they do not need offices. Good luck filling that white elephant, oh wait that's racist black elephant.

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  29. Waddell and Reed is laying off a lot of employees now that it sold to an evil Hedge Fund.

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