With more than 40 empty storefronts on the Country Club Plaza making the former luxury destination look like a ghost town . . . KCMO officials are DESPERATE to bring in any new biz and throw zoning regs out of the window.
Here's a peek at even more amateur urban planning in action without much care about consequences given the impending implosion of the district altogether . . . Check-it:
On Thursday, in a unanimous vote, the Kansas City City Council voted to do away with the 130-foot height restriction on the parcel where a new Nordstrom department store had once been planned, before the company backed out in 2022.
The ordinance now allows a building as high at 275 feet, or about 20 stories — twice the height of any surrounding building — to be erected on the lot, thus providing the Plaza’s new ownership group the leeway they insist they need to attract a builder or tenant willing to develop the spot and move the long-languishing shopping district forward.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
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