MUST SEE!!! KANSAS CITY EMINENT DOMAIN EXHIBIT CONTRADICTS SILLY CAMPAIGN SEASON 3RD DISTRICT ELECTION TALK!!!
Here's what's interesting about a FASCINATING NEW EXHIBIT COMING SOON TO THE KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY . . .
THIS UPCOMING SERIES OF PHOTOS AND TESTIMONY DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS UPBEAT 2015 CAMPAIGN SEASON TALK ABOUT INVESTMENT IN THE 3RD DISTRICT!!!
To hear Mayor Sly or Councilman Jermaine Reed tell it . . . The new police station is a story of success and millions worth of community investment. Community concerns or complaints about housing are either ignored or casually dismissed.
Meanwhile, this documentary evidence provides another perspective that the local political establishment wants ignored.
Check it:
Eminent Domain
Roughly a four-block section of Kansas City’s east-side Wendell Phillips neighborhood no longer exists, at least as it once did. Dozens of homes on nearly 130 parcels of land were acquired by the city via eminent domain to make room for a new East Patrol police station and crime lab. Forty-three households were displaced, some forcibly.
Matt Rahner, an adjunct instructor of visual art at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri, began documenting the dismantling of this enclave in the predominantly African American neighborhood in the fall of 2012, photographing residents and their homes from the time the houses still stood until they were rubble.
Those photographs—along with objects and ephemera from the vacant homes and lots—make up this new installation opening Saturday, March 21, 2015, in the Genevieve Guldner Gallery.
Friday, March 20, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Meet the artist and get an exclusive first look at the exhibition during a special, two-hour opening reception presented by Young Friends of the Kansas City Public Library.
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Blame Pat Klein and Troy Schulte.
ReplyDeleteTroy Schulte is proud to announce that Citadel Plaza is ready for development. Maybe it would have been a better location for the police station?
ReplyDeleteI'm struggling to understand how using eminent domain to build a crime lab, demolishing historic structures along Troost Ave, or redeveloping homes in Beacon Hill counts as meaningful investment in Kansas City's east side when there are basic ameneties like healthy food, safe parks, usable sidewalks, and quality public schools that are unavailable in most of these neighborhoods.
I'm struggling to understand how Troy Schulte still has a job.
ReplyDeleteDear Bryan Stadler:
ReplyDeletePlease feel free to call me or contact me. I have all the answers you need - along with documents. The City will never share the truth with the public. I'd like to do that if you're interested.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blight-ME-KC/260648200642135
It's all about MARKETING and people are so stupid these days, they don't even know it.
ReplyDeleteWell we don't give a damn about your tax payer dollars, spend em fast as we can
ReplyDeleteThere was a writeup the other day where corporations who grease the palms and coffers of politicians get $750 back for every dollar they spend greasing those palms.
ReplyDeleteWho got all the various contracts from the city for this travesty?
Should be titled the Sly James Exhibition Part 1.
ReplyDeleteThis is real art. Not some Sly and city council endorsed kid from the burbs in his bag on the floor at Kmart or that looney chick perigine or whatever the fuck her name is.
ReplyDeleteThe East Patrol project is likened to a holocaust of sorts. It represents a Black on Black dynamic with a big helping of political corruption and bad faith. Unfolding in our very own Kansas City, Missouri.
ReplyDeleteThe East Patrol building location had nothing to do with investment in the community or public safety.
ReplyDeleteIt had everything to do with some of the more notorious usual suspects dipping into the trough and strong-arming elected and appointed cowards into giving them what they wanted.
Sadly, the neighborhood and its residents as well as the houses there were simply casualties that were in the way.
Take a look around any of the current or new KCPD patrol stations and describe how much economic development occurred after their construction.
And in KCMO when it comes to investment and development claims, just follow the money. You'll find the names familiar.
If a white man led the city to tear down a 4 block section on the East-side, we'd have Eric Holder and the Justice Department bringing charges, but since it was Sly James, he'll get re-elected.
ReplyDelete7:28 PM FTW!
ReplyDeleteTroy Schulte is proud to announce that Citadel Plaza is ready for development. Maybe it would have been a better location for the police station?
ReplyDeleteI'm struggling to understand how using eminent domain to build a crime lab, demolishing historic structures along Troost Ave, or redeveloping homes in Beacon Hill counts as meaningful investment in Kansas City's east side when there are basic ameneties like healthy food, safe parks, usable sidewalks, and quality public schools that are unavailable in most of these neighborhoods.
Tony, good job! This story needs a LOT more attention BEFORE the election. All these b*stards need to be shown the curb.
ReplyDeleteI think one thing people don't know is that the new EAST Patrol Project is being built inside the CENTRAL Patrol service boundaries. So...that leaves the EAST side of Kansas City, that this is "supposed" to help without access, in both proximity and service, to a police facility.
ReplyDeletePeople also DON'T know that the City never vetted the other 24 sites that it claimed. The site selection was a sham to purposefully benefit a few others who own land nearby and have or will have projects in the works. Look at who lobbied the city for this site...and then look at what projects they have their own hands in. Follow the money.
Sorry for the error. 1:07 should read "A white libertarian" said.
ReplyDeleteThanks.