@BlogKCHonestly, there isn’t much of a choice… anymore neglect and rampant tear-downs and downtown Kansas City, Kansas — generally bound by Washington Ave. on the north, the Kansas River on the east, 18th Street on the west, and Sandusky Ave. on the south — will be pure ghetto wasteland. Good news lately on a few fronts: 1) the Unified Government just approved a new downtown master plan that calls for denser, mixed-use development and; 2) voters are expected to approve one or both gambling questions on June 26, which may boost tax coffers and offset the Dot’s notoriously high property tax rates. Previous good news items that never gathered enough collective traction were the City Hall Lofts, the Screenland Granada, and plenty of new and rehabbed homes nearby from CHWC (which is doing a much better job at infill that anyone in KCMO).
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- Stargazing at the Warko Observatory
Dick Jerrold of the ATA told me that the Unified Government is studying a MAX-type line from downtown KCMO through downtown KCK all the way down State Avenue to Village West…I said “Build it already!”…it would be a huge step to downtown KCK redevelopment, and would be packed all the time…
could you imagine the popularity of a real BRT or express bus line that stretched from the sports complex to village west?
That would be awesome! I think something like that will happen…