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Nascar sports bar for the Power & Light District?
January 29, 2007 |
It seems that some political types in KC have been receiving copies of an invite to the opening of the Cordish company’s NASCAR Sports Grille in Orlando. Could this be a preview of things to come at the Power & Light District? is one of the names always mentioned when folks talk about the P&L, but Cordish is currently involved in a nasty court battle with Hard Rock after a failed takeover attempt. Perhaps NASCAR will be the consolation prize for KC?
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Grreeaaaat. A NASCAR bar. They’re kicking out local establishments for boring, blah, homogeneous, coporate tofu. Great vision, Kansas City! Terrific culture!
The prior local establishments that were kicked out included such gems as a transvestite sandwich shop, a strip club, a haunted house, and a place that made rubber stamps. Oh and acres upon acres of surface parking lots.
Yeah, KCMO Guy what places are you thinking have been kicked out? Maybe one of the wig/beauty shops? Or perhaps Bruno’s Bail Bonds? All symbols of Kansas City’s wonderful downtown for sure, damn those NASCAR hillbillies for wanting to put in a place that would actually attract people other than criminals.
Scooter, you don’t know the places of which you speak. And Kyle…maybe your own sensibilities about your own background are leading you to defend hillbillies, rubes and other bumpkins, but my comment in no way references them. That’s a connection you obviously are compelled to self-consciously make. I looked out the window at Jake Edwards’s BBQ and wondered what national chain would be using TIF money to locate there. I even looked in the wig store next door, a place that serves enough customers to keep about half a dozen people employed, and I wondered who considers their market segment insignificant enough to boot out. My comment about our town’s idiotic choices are not about hillbillies, or populations of which “people” like Scooter might seem comfortable judging. My comment is about our ongoing inability to cherish local flavor and local business.
The wig shop and Jake Edwards are not part of the Power & Light District. That’s an entirely different project that someone else is trying to do… not related to P&L or the NASCAR Cafe at all.
Here is a picture of what the P&L District replaced. I don’t see anything in that picture that contradicts what I said.
http://www.syphon.com/personal/scott/pix/DCP_1682b.jpg
Hey! Gus’ Goldmine was my favorite strip bar in Kansas City and it will be sorely missed by many.
We are a Midwestern city. Let’s stop trying to be something we are not. We are not New York. Embrace our hick roots.
I like the idea of a NASCAR bar!