I for one think it is funny how cool people who are obsessed with downtown think they are. The smugness is funny if it were not so annoying. Yes, I'm sure all the kiddies will have great memories of walking between big buildings downtown. Oh, yay, more shops and restaurants -- just what, guess what, they have in the suburbs! I'm downtown a lot, it's not that special compared to other areas of the city. In reality, it's just another suburb, just in the heart of the city -- nothing more special, nothing less special. While we're all glad for the Sprint Center, and it makes sense that it is located there, lets stop acting like downtown is just the be all and end all of living. There are absolutely wonderful places all over this city, from the northland to way out in joco to kck. Downtown is just one area.
Sadly, while a lot of the new people who now live downtown and think they are so cool and feel so good about themselves ignore is that there is still miles and miles of crap in this town that putting a pretty face (by improving downtown) doesn't solve. It just moves it to another area of the city.
In reality, as I said, downtown KC is just another suburb, it's just in the heart of the city. We're glad for its recovery but let's all stop with the pounding of the chests like you're cooler than the rest of the city.
Posted 2007-06-11 23:18:21
8. Untitled Guest User,
get off ur lazy ass
Posted 2007-06-30 14:06:17
9. Untitled Guest User,
am not from here but i love this city and am glad the city start to change it make me feel pround when i say i live in KC, please people stop talk s@#@# about or city.
Posted 2007-08-05 02:36:18
10. Untitled KCLovesParking,
There is a parking garage just to the east slated at the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts between Broadway and Wyandotte/ 16th and 17th.
Posted 2007-08-14 20:20:20
11. Untitled Guest User,
I couldn't agree with you more. After reading your opinion I added my own to that Message board, it's the most radiculous thing to hear some people complain about some things. Parking is not a problem in downtown, I for one think it will never be, people have no idea how good we have it. lol Thanks for being smart.
Posted 2007-09-08 17:38:13
12. Untitled Guest User,
Kansas City is nothing without a strong and vibrant downtown. Downtown defines urban so that suburban can exist. It allows everyone in the metro area to proudly say "I'm from Kansas City" when they are traveling. What raises downtown above the suburbs is that it embraces diversity of race, religion, social and economic status, housing and transit. People don't live downtown because they are afraid of people who are not just like them. Too much of the last 50 years of development in Kansas City has been based on the fear of meeting people who are not just like us. The majority of our major entertainment venues have been designed to allow the fearful suburbanite to get into their car inside their locked garage, lock the car doors, open the garage door, leave their neighborhood where everyone is just like them, quickly access a high-speed freeway, drive into a high security parking lot and walk into an area where everyone is just like them. Downtown's revitalization brings back the authentic and the real and gives us a chance to really embrace the diversity of our city in a way we never have before. All of the questions being raised about the opening of Sprint Center have this fear of meeting "people who are not just like me" at their core. The problem is not using a parking garage or walking to the front door of where ever we are going.
