Downtown Documentary Preview

For the last couple of years a film crew has been documenting Kansas City’s enormous multi-billion dollar Downtown reconstruction.  That documentary is due to be finished next year, but a sneak peak is now available online.

Downtown Documentary

Mending the Heart of an American City documentary project web site. 

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8 Responses to Downtown Documentary Preview

  1. chris says:

    It’s great that they’re doing this project, but if this clip is any indication, should they really be calling this a documentary?

    Maybe docu-PR or docu-feel-good.

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  3. Tim says:

    KC is a great city, and is emerging as an ever-greater one. There is not one aspect of KC that is not improving, and now we’re making strides to reverse the horrible sprawl…

  4. patrick says:

    Tim,

    I might possibly go along with this on a good day:

    “KC is a great city, and is emerging as an ever-greater one.”

    But this just makes me throw up a little in my mouth:

    “There is not one aspect of KC that is not improving …”

    Here are three words that negate that sunshiney bullshit: East of Troost.

  5. Tim says:

    I go East of Troost from time to time, and I think it’s getting better too. The 18th & Vine district, Shops on Blue Parkway. The improvements may be slower and not as obvious, but they are there. And there’s a growing sense of community in a lot of those neighborhoods. And that’s not a bad thing anywhere.

  6. patrick says:

    There are vast areas between 18th and Vine and the Shops on Blue Parkway that have remained unimproved. Two development projects that receive a large amount of public subsidies does not a renaissance make.

    Drive down Troost from 18th to 85th Street. With very few exceptions, that stretch of road has gotten worse, not better, in a “development” sense.

    And if that wasn’t enough, crime stats aren’t all that great (nor the police response) and the school district still sucks.

  7. patrick says:

    I should have added:

    It’s hard to argue “There is not one aspect of KC that is not improving …” when roughly half the city is habitually ignored.

  8. Tim says:

    Most cities face the same issues. It’s not unique to KC by a long shot. It’s not even unique to the United States. These problems exist in a variety of places including some that wouldn’t come to mind such as Montreal. If you keep waiting for perfect, you will die unhappy and disappointed.