Matt Staub

Main St #KC, before and after I-70. 1 building in distant view remains.

@kcchamber Let the developer of your new website know that they need to establish 301 redirections. Every single search result regarding the Annual Dinner is a dead link. :)

The stage is set (literally)! Our team is working hard to make tonight’s KC Chamber Annual Dinner one to remember. Check out this sneak peek of the venue—it’s looking incredible! Are you as excited as we are? Let us know in the replies. ⬇️ #WeBelieveinKC

@japkc @JoshBoehm 30 minutes per too-tall fence around a single family home over and over isn't sustainable, and it means this group of overworked non-experts are burned out and just move things along, often ignoring professional staff.

@japkc @JoshBoehm This is a sign that the process is broken. It's totally unsustainable to have this body have to deal with everybody's one-off desire to deviate from the code and design standards. Staff should be empowered and code should mean something. If it doesn't work, change it.

Long shot, but do any of my KC local Tweeps shoot Sony mirrorless, or recommendations for a local rental? Have a shoot this week and need a third camera.

@Jrichmidtown1 @KCNorthLoop Nothing happens if citizens don't ask for it to happen.

@staubio @KCNorthLoop I have no doubt studies have been done. My doubt is in Kansas City to take such a progressive step forward.

The North Loop destroyed a huge swath of our downtown. North Loop Neighbors is an advocacy coalition to rebuild what was lost. See more at northloopneighbors.com #NorthLoopNeighbors #ReconnectingCommunities

@Jrichmidtown1 @KCNorthLoop It's already been studied extensively! #NorthLoop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cnu.org/highways-boule…

@KCNorthLoop Is there even a remote chance this actually happens? I don't have much faith in the city when it comes to development. Especially if it includes getting rid of driver convenience.

@BarsottiKlb @rock_climber02 @hikatie I've all but quit Twitter for a variety of reasons, but it's amusing to see the influx of sudden interest and expertise in urbanism from a bunch of anonymous handles when there was a community of folks here for years working through these kinds of issues (mostly) respectfully.

Should this vote pass, it'll be a drastically better plan because people made their voices heard and didn't just accept the plan that was dropped on them.

@UnconConven Team just announced that Oak and the parcels east of it have been pulled from the plan, so this didn't age well at all. :)

@staubio The East Village site is: 🔹 too small (3/4ths size of already small Crossroads site) 🔹 several blocks from P&L entertainment district starting on Grand 🔹 would eliminate essential parking for KCPD and Municipal Court

Several sites within downtown have been speculative locations for baseball stadiums, which has left areas of downtown dead and in wait for a generation. They're still dead as the Royals flipped to a site that requires significant demolition and displacement...

@kate_kansascity It's just been the most poorly handled rollout and comms plans ever. Breathtaking, really. Still, this is really good news, and a sign that the loud reaction meant something. Still huge problem, but Oak was the poison pill.

@AndrewMillerKC Sure they do. There are several residential buildings and apartments above businesses. It is mostly commercial, but not entirely

@BarsottiKlb @CBQ_Fanatic @Zavcurrent @rock_climber02 Yeah, it is nonsense.

@thekccurrent @waytogokc Absolutely loving the low parking, multi-modal approaches to stadium access, which makes matchday so much more pleasant. It's awesome to see the community embrace it too! Overflowing bike valet and a festive riverfront walk with 2000 of my Current friends is awesome.

@mcjamie Yes, I think cities are dynamic and resilient, and people figure it out. The T-Mobile Center seats more than an average Royals crowd. I do worry about the city's ability to adapt, however, when we keep chopping up our grid and removing vital multimodal connections like Oak.

@staubio In your opinion, can our infrastructure around the Crossroads even handle a stadium, assuming a lot of people are incentivized to attend (i.e.: the team plays well)?

@mwgarbett We got a tiny, mostly symbolic win with our streetcar TDD: a per-space assessment for non-accessory paid parking lots — a revenue source we've been thrilled to see shrink every year.

@staubio We're not getting a land value tax here in Atlanta anytime soon. Trying to get required attendants and security guards per spaces to at least drive the cost of the parking lots up a little bit so they may be more motivated. Open to other suggestions.

Beyond my personal post to friends, this is a real example of parking lot speculation and it's killing Atlanta's downtown even w/out the promise of a stadium like in KC. We have got to figure out a way to price parking lots so people can't just hold on to the land.

@CBQ_Fanatic @Zavcurrent All understandable! But thankfully, we still have plenty of lots to develop for housing. And I'm hopeful a downtown stadium could help push more support for and focus on transit. As for how often this huge thing sits empty, we have to hope they add retail space to the perimeter

@jaden_powell @QuintonLucasKC @KansasCity Totally possible. Either way, it's a bad look. It's an extremely Kansas City thing to do to demolish a functioning neighborhood to not have to walk 4 blocks to the entertainment district.

@staubio I have heard this was not a flip by the Royals and they had pretty much decided on EV, but @QuintonLucasKC and @KansasCity pushed them to choose the Crossroads site. I’m sure as a result of Cordish’s lobbying…

Even if you support downtown baseball, as I generally do, I encourage you to vote no on this proposal. It's unnecessarily destructive, has serious impacts to the street grid and local business, and leaves the sites banked for stadium development sitting dead for years to come.

I think downtown stadia can be good for downtowns, as much as I hate the public financing race to the bottom. But this plan just piles more destruction on top of the decades of destruction that were wrought by downtown baseball speculation.