Category Archives: Real Estate
Bambi’s Defenders Raise Bar In Shawnee Mission Park Rhetoric Fight
Remember that little flap a few months back over the potential deer slaughter in Shawnee Mission Park? Apparently the antler’d creatures are overrunning the place (even more so than groping joggers!), and so the authorities authorized a bunch of weekend … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, City Government, Crime, Real Estate, Sports
Odd Smell In South-Central KC Is Just Smell Of South-Central KC
Sniff, sniff. Hey, smell that? Something smells… weird. Like maybe… a meth house! Yeah, yeah, that’s it — a meth house! Quick, call the cops. There’s meth somewhere around 81st and Highland! Wait, what? Oh, too bad: that’s just the … Continue reading
Filed under Real Estate
After Visit To Village West Hooters, Cerner CEO Reveals Why Soccer Complex Really Changed Locations
Ahem. Here we see local businessman of note Neal Patterson explaining to his frat brothers exactly why the company chose the, er, ample real estate of WyCo over the sad-sack Bannister Mall area.
Filed under Local Business, Real Estate, Social Life
Poor, Sad Wyandotte County Can’t Even Host Own Fair
Pity the Dot. The metro area’s most notoriously crime-ridden and poverty-stricken (and all sorts of other compound adjectives you never want to attract) geographic entity has suffered a further indignity. It’s fair season, of course: the time when people of … Continue reading
Filed under City Government, Economics, Family Life, Holidays, Real Estate
“I’ve Abandoned My BOY…er…CITY!”
According to Forbes magazine, Kansas City has abandonment issues: Indeed, the Kansas City metro area tops our list of America’s Abandoned Cities. In Kansas City, rental vacancy rates rose from 11.9% to 15% over the past year; homeowner vacancy rates nearly doubled, … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, In the News, Real Estate, Social Life
‘International House Of Prayer’ Brings Crazy End-Times Philosophy, Blatant Copyright Violation To Kansas City
Given that our city is already known as a bastion of tolerance, open-mindedness, and advancement of new theories, what the place really needs is a hefty dose of good ol’ fundamentalism. Wait, what’s that? We’re actually looked upon as Midwestern … Continue reading
Filed under Family Life, Local Business, Oddities, Politics, Real Estate, Religion, Strange news
Mike Hendricks Dabbles In Recession Porn
It’s become fashionable of late to take a gawking, schadenfreude-y look at those former titans of high finance and real estate whose falls have been commensurate with the collapse of that whole “global economy.” The journalistic spectacle, though, has largely … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, Media, Real Estate
