Jul

13

Solar system exhibit to land downtown

July 13, 2007 | 4 Comments

According to City Planning department comments at a recent community meeting, Kansas City will be getting a replica of the Model Solar System that is permanently installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The 2001 effort was a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institute and NASA.
Kansas City’s replica will be installed this fall along Baltimore [...]

Jul

11

Plaza-Wide Wi-Fi

July 11, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Business Journal reports that the Country Club Plaza is launching a wireless Internet service across it’s 15-block area. The service is free to Time Warner Cable customers. Others can pay $9 or 24 hours or $35 for a month. The Legends strip mall in KCK is also offering a similar system [...]

Jul

10

Readying the Rink

July 10, 2007 | 5 Comments

KSHB 41 reports that the concrete for the Sprint Center ice rink is being poured today. While it may open on schedule (unlike a, ahem, prominent neighbor), there is still no anchor tenant. Would it matter if the opening event were a Jimmy Buffet or The Police concert? Check out the chatter at the KC [...]

Jul

7

Hasta La Vista for Loma Vista Hardware

July 7, 2007 | 1 Comment

Owner Chuck Dean is closing down Loma Vista Hardware, a KC institution since 1974.   The store started in south Kansas City and has been in Westport for the last ten years.  That storefront has been a hardware store for almost a hundred years.  However, Loma Vista name will live on. The popular skateboard supply store [...]

Jul

6

History of America movie premier

July 6, 2007 | 1 Comment

This weekend the Screenland Theater becomes the center of the local hipster universe when local design and f/x house MK12 debuts History of America, an animated short film about a trippy war between cowboys and astronauts. Put on your chunky glasses, ironic t-shirts, and Mary Janes. Then head on down to the Crossroads [...]

Jul

6

DST announces South Plaza plans

July 6, 2007 | 8 Comments

This week DST reveled their plans to re-develop two blocks of Main Street in the South Plaza neighborhood.  The mixed-use plan includes shops, offices, apartments, and a grocery store between 49th and 51st Streets.  The long-awaited announcement should address fears that DST was repeating its Westport strategy where it bought up an entire neighborhood, let [...]

Jul

5

Independence Day becoming a free-for-all?

July 5, 2007 | 14 Comments

Last night four shootings around the city left two people dead and several more injured.  This is on top of a virtually un-enforced fireworks ban, it seems like the city is developing a culture of lawlessness on the 4th of July. When citizens see cops driving by and ignoring people setting off illegal fireworks in [...]

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