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A new downtown baseball stadium and entertainment district could soon change the skyline of Kansas City, Missouri.
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A big vote is coming to Jackson County, Missouri, on April 2 that involves stadium financing and a new downtown baseball stadium for MLB’s Kansas City Royals as well as for the Truman Sports Complex that’s home to repeat Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs. One of our past explorations of stadium project financing, “Taking One for the Team,” was published in November 2008. How much of it still holds up today? For reference cases in this area, visit the “Field of Schemes” blog of one of our interview subjects then, Neil deMause, who, as luck would have it, has just posted an entry today about the Kansas City situation.
As documented by KCUR last month, the sales tax measure to be voted on in April was put on the ballot by the county legislature over the veto of County Executive Frank White Jr., the longtime Royals second baseman who grew up in the city and has served the area as an elected official for the past decade.
Curious about the equally ballyhooed and doubted prospect of converting office space to much-needed residential space? So is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which last week announced nearly $4 million in awards to 11 grantees “to support research that will fill crucial knowledge gaps and help build the evidence base to accelerate the adoption of innovative and effective practices and policies to increase the production and supply of quality, affordable housing. This includes exploring office-to-residential conversions, to help communities meet their housing needs.”
A total of $3 million went to explore offsite construction methods and zoning and land use reforms at 10 institutions, including UCLA, Lehigh University, Louisiana State University, Purdue University, UC-Irvine and Washington State University. The office-to-residential award of just over $858,000 went to M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. “to conduct a study that will analyze office to residential conversion activities in six cities, test the financial feasibility of these conversions, study policies and incentives, and build an online community guide to allow local policymakers to estimate the impact of potential conversion policies on their community.” Gensler posted an updated blog entry on the topic last fall.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps out from the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos above Roswell, New Mexico, on October 14, 2012.
Photo courtesy of Red Bull Stratos/Red Bull Content Pool
To celebrate Leap Day today, you can’t get better than the ultimate leap that took place on October 14, 2012. That’s when, “in a mission called ‘Red Bull Stratos’, millions of people globally tuned in to watch Felix Baumgartner as he ascended to the edge of space in a small capsule and jumped to Earth, faster than the speed of sound,” says a release from Red Bull, which in 2022 unveiled a documentary about the project called “Space Jump.”
Incredibly, his record for highest free fall (38 kilometers or 23.6 miles) was broken two years later by Google engineer Alan Eustace. But Baumgartner’s pioneering leap still alternately captivates and bewilders earthbound observers the world over.
