@BlogKCKC Business magazine’s blog reports that restaurant operators are struggling to survive in The Legends shopping center at Village West in KCK. They cite numerous reasons like a dearth of customers during the week, a sprawling development pattern that keeps in their cars instead of on foot, too many competing restaurants, and new dining options closer to where people live in other parts of the metro area.
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funny how the layout of that stinks so bad. it is hard to figure out what the heck is in there. it looks like a bad mini-golf place in branson.
funny too how the same company IS THE SAME ONE DESIGNING THE BANNISTER/WIZARDS REDEVELOPMENT!!!
same problem. no lunch crowd down there and massive parking lots. KCMO people are dumb.
“The Legends”…hahaahaaaaaa…
Branson—loved the comparison, insiderinfo, right on the mark. The place certainly seems to inspire window-shopping when one goes out there for dinner on a weekend. However, one shops from one’s CAR WINDOW as one drives from restaurant to restaurant, looking for one with a shorter line and an acceptable menu. BRILLIANT design concept. And how more appropriate? One of the NASCAR pantheons to fossil-fuel consumption is right there on the grounds. (Yet another Branson connection there.)
If one has a great restaurant there is no worries of people coming to it. But might as will blame it on others.
How is KC Rags favorite bar/restaurant coming along in West Village…………Caliente (owner Kerry Duffin)? Thats the bar/restaurant Crossroads didn’t want due to a lack of parking.
bob, i have to say that my experience a few weeks ago at caliente (which i’d been quite excited to try, considering all that i’d read about it) was most underwhelming, from the service to the presentation of the food on the plate to the food itself — poor, uninspiring, and bland. i can’t help but wonder if things would be different had it been able to open in the crossroads. *sigh*
I think Caliente would have been different in the Crossroads; they were probably pretty uninspired out at (I can barely bring myself to say it) The Legends. They’re closed now. Brad Nicholson is the one who kept them out of the Crossroads. He’s a prick.
really — it’s closed already?? even though i was unimpressed by their food, i just found out that they were offering salsa dancing there on the weekends, and was all excited! boohiss.
Yeah, they’re closed. Not enough business. The owner is suing The Legends, claiming he was misled about the amount of foot traffic to expect. It’s that douchebag Brad Nicholson who kept it out of the Crossroads. He claimed it was about parking issues, but I happen to know for a fact he personally hates ethnic food.
The Legends, with the recent murder and failing restaurant, is starting to look like Bannister Mall did in the early 90s. A sign of things to come?
People pushing the Wizards development point to the Legends as a model. But Legends just opened. I went there twice just because it’s new. My trips will become much fewer now that the newness is wearing off. It’s not a sustainable development.
And neither is the Wizards plan for Bannister Mall.
I think you’re right, Mike. Hash House A-Go-Go is gone too, and if anything should’ve appealed to the fatasses who never go anywhere without their SUV, that should’ve been the one. I can see the comparisons to Bannister Mall, too. Looks like history repeating itself.
This is why we are gathering the petitions to stop the super TIF and other handouts at Bannister. Major retail is dead. It’s time to get an office live work community at Bannister and do it right.
The Wizards’ attorney has been kissing the Council’s butt and its going to be rubber stamped no matter how bad a deal it is. There is no way some Council people will vote no becuase then they will maligned the next 3 years.
It’s up to the people to kill this bad idea.