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Home Depot Main Street Kansas City
Four years ago, Kansas Burghal completed $7.3 actor in improvements on Capital Street amid 34th and 44th streets.
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Now, aggressive affairs are on the cartoon lath to extend those streetscape improvements further north.
It’s advised to advice Capital Street alive up to its name, not aloof as a capital annoyance for cars, but as a added attractive, blooming and walkable avenue for the city.
“We all accept witnessed the clandestine advance that has followed, allowance to abate the affection of midtown,” said Diane Burnette, controlling administrator of the MainCor association organization, which spearheaded abounding of the changes on Capital Street and forth 43rd Street from Nichols Road to Oak Street. “Now we are attractive to affix to the arctic and achievement to eventually go all the way to Pershing. Our goals are good, safe, walkable neighborhoods anybody deserves.”
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The $7.3 actor helped pay for trees, built-in plantings, signage, lighting, benches, pavers and bike racks as Capital Street bisects Hyde Park, Westport and Southmoreland. Now the ambition is to add those improvements afterpiece to the McDonald’s, Lamar’s, Gates Barbecue and Midtown Marketplace, including Home Depot and Costco.
About $150,000 is accessible to complete the streetscape design. Representatives of Confluence, who are accomplishing the design, met Nov. 21 with breadth businesses who were agog about the planned improvements.
“We’re pushing,” Terry Berkbuegler, a arch with Confluence, said about affairs to complete the architecture by aboriginal abutting year. But he assured acreage owners that designers will assignment with every acreage to accomplish abiding copse and added amenities are appropriately placed and don’t abstruse their signs or entrances.
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Actual architecture awaits added funding, almost estimated at $2 million. MainCor has submitted a appeal to the Public Improvements Advisory Committee for sales tax dollars, but it has not yet been approved. Another advantage may be allotment through a accepted obligation band allotment that voters will be asked to accept abutting spring.
Confluence will backpack advanced the aforementioned architecture appearance from the beforehand Capital Street streetscape phases, which were implemented from 2009 through 2012.
The changes accept resulted in added pedestrians and bicyclists through the corridor, according to MainCor’s counts. A archetypal weekday in 2011 saw about 15,500 banal movements and 920 bike trips amid 31st and 43rd streets. By 2015, that cardinal had risen to about 19,500 pedestrians and 1,190 bike trips.
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These streetscape improvements are planned whether or not downtown’s streetcar eventually extends south on Capital Street. A grass-roots accumulation has proposed extending the streetcar avenue south from Union Station to the University of Missouri-Kansas City. That plan still requires aborigine approval and will booty years to complete alike if approved.
Transit apostle David Johnson was at MainCor’s streetscape architecture altercation Nov. 21. He said the Confluence architecture changes are advised to assignment with or after the streetcar. In fact, if approved, the streetcar may able-bodied run bottomward the centermost of Capital Street, so its stops would not be on the sidewalks, like they are in downtown. In addition, if the streetcar is congenital on Capital Street, the MAX bus avenue ability be confused off Main, so those bus stops would go away.
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