In his last post before his untimely passing a year ago, Jim Fitzpatrick wrote about the seeming inevitability around a downtown baseball stadium.
Since then, a sham process failed to attract investor capital for the east village and ownership made a last-minute turn in favor of a more financially favorable (less risky) site that will cut deep into the heart of downtown KC. Calling the Crossroads plan half-baked is an insult to bakers like me.
There is a middle ground in the form of a robust CBA, including long-term financial support for small businesses, a holistic parking plan, access/affordability provisions for the stadium itself, and a prohibition on the use of eminent domain. But those plans take months to craft, at best, and they don't come about at the point of a bayonette aka once early voting has started. A process without integrity will never produce a healthy outcome.
Will the old-timers who have long fought for a more equitable and sustainable KC do more than vote no, and actually speak up in support of the new generation of activists?
Or will they turn their backs and take the path of least (social) resistance, and opt not to upset one of the few homegrown oligarchs who didn't fully de-camp for Aspen or Naples after their big liquidity event?
In his last post before his untimely passing a year ago, Jim Fitzpatrick wrote about the seeming inevitability around a downtown baseball stadium.
Since then, a sham process failed to attract investor capital for the east village and ownership made a last-minute turn in favor of a more financially favorable (less risky) site that will cut deep into the heart of downtown KC. Calling the Crossroads plan half-baked is an insult to bakers like me.
There is a middle ground in the form of a robust CBA, including long-term financial support for small businesses, a holistic parking plan, access/affordability provisions for the stadium itself, and a prohibition on the use of eminent domain. But those plans take months to craft, at best, and they don't come about at the point of a bayonette aka once early voting has started. A process without integrity will never produce a healthy outcome.
Will the old-timers who have long fought for a more equitable and sustainable KC do more than vote no, and actually speak up in support of the new generation of activists?
Or will they turn their backs and take the path of least (social) resistance, and opt not to upset one of the few homegrown oligarchs who didn't fully de-camp for Aspen or Naples after their big liquidity event?