KANSAS CITY INSIDER REACTION: JOCO COMPANY SOON TO RUN THE CITY MARKET IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO KANSAS CITY!!!

The reaction to a recent story about new management @ The City Market has been intense.

Ferruzza @ The Pitch recently provided this report: City Market is under new management in December

So far the promises of a "Prairie Village-based KC Commercial Realty Group" haven't met with much excitement. Instead, Kansas City Insiders note that the new management team contradicts so much talk about promoting biz within the city limits.

"The Mayor and Council have been so adamant about local economic development that they've overlooked this major stumbling block in their own back yard. Letting a Johnson County company run the City Market ignores so many years of tradition and history of this location that is one of the foundations of KC and all of Missouri," a Kansas City Insider says.

Furthermore . . .

"What does this Johnson County company know about doing business in the City Market? This move repeats the same mistake of so many Kansas City economic developments. Business leaders bring in these out of town interests that have no real appreciation for the flavor of districts they're managing and that history that makes KC unique is now at risk."

We'll wait and see if the new management group comes up with a new strategy to help bolster the City Market but for the moment the JoCo connection inspires skepticism from Kansas City Insiders.