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.
The current issue of the Urban Times, Kansas City’s culture, news and entertainment, mag, has a piece describing the development strategy for the metro area. The current boom downtown poses a problem which the plan aims to address:
Kansas City has quickly become a cosmopolitan-like city with entertainment being a central focus. All the new high-end places to live for urban dwellers are evidence that the city is open to drawing a new type of resident-one that appreciates the urban environment and-for convenience sake-wants to live close to work and benefit from the new amenities downtown.
But this type of explosive growth says little for the city’s neighborhoods located both in and on the fringe of Kansas City’s urban renaissance. New arenas, performing arts facilities, and the influx of new urban residents have an impact on the people who live or operate small businesses in surrounding
neighborhoods.
Main gist: The development approach gives KC’s urban neighborhoods leeway to cater to their distinctive histories and flavors while building on the current growth trends.
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.
