Downtown Kansas City is Dangerously Close to Walkable
A few brave souls have already sold their cars and live inside the metro loop using only local stores and the public buses, the Kansas City Urban Times reports. I can see this if you’re resourceful, don’t have small kids, and don’t mind spending $5 for a gallon of milk.
Downtown KC still doesn’t have a “real” grocery store, and I can’t imagine towing Aidan and Asher around in buses at this point in their rambunctious development, but downtown is getting more strollable.
Realistically, we’re probably a grocery store and some affordable family housing away from the Vanderhorst family realizing the urban walkabout dream.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Our office is two blocks from the P&L District, and we walk it every day - - it is incredible how much they have done with the area. I would like to see the progression of progress though, if they could start to work on the areas around the P&L and slowly migrate the improvements out, DT KC would be as pretty and as “clean” as Boston. I do have one issue though, our city engineers didn’t think about the placement of trees in the middle of sidewalks too much. Makes our walkways very handicap inaccessible, as well hard to walk with a group of friends and carry on a conversation.
September 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Am I right that it’s kind of fun to work in a downtown office now, as opposed to about 3 years ago, when the area was run down and you had about 5 decent lunch options? You’re right about the trees, last time we were down there, I had to keep dodging to carry on a conversation.
I wonder how long it will take for the urban renewal to spread east toward the area that is still blighted. Too bad we don’t have that mythical downtown baseball stadium.