TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! WILL WALDO WEEK SAVE EMBATTLED KANSAS CITY ENCLAVE FROM RECENT SPATE VIOLENT CRIME & WHITE FLIGHT?!?
Waldo is desperate to try something new and save struggling local biz amid a great many longtime residents who have recently decided to move out.
Real talk . . . Drive around Waldo this Spring and look at A LOT of homes for sale at rock bottom prices.
To wit . . .
IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO TURNAROUND PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF INCREASED VIOLENCE IN WALDO . . . MERCHANTS UNITE AND DECLARE THIS WALDO WEEK!!!
Here's the word . . .
"Waldo Week is February 27th – March 4th. Participating Waldo merchants, from Gregory Blvd. to 85th St., Holmes Rd. to State Line, are rolling out the red carpet to neighbors and visitors alike for one whole week and extending a special 25% off on merchandise and services.
This first ever event is a week-long celebration of one of the oldest neighborhoods in the Kansas City area. For generations, people have been shopping and dining in Waldo, supporting local businesses, friends and neighbors . . ."
It's a nice start but will it help???
From a consumer perspective, this is an opportunity to find a few deals and maybe an excuse to check out a few hottie baristas displaying their talents.
But the damage might already be done given that Kansas City has endured a 36% homicide increase last year and the Southland seems to be home to increasing crime.
At the end of 2015, a theft ring running out of Waldo was busted. Meanwhile, increased burglaries and car break-ins have inspired many neighbors to finally make the jump across the state line to the promised land of the Golden Ghetto.
OF COURSE we respect merchants who are making their last stand and now we offer this Kansas City merchant effort to our blog community for consideration.
You decide . . .
I'll tell you what these folks need.
ReplyDeleteA streetcar line extension!
That's the only thing that will save their businesses and homes.
Of course this isn't going to work. Everybody knows that these fire sales stink of desperation.
ReplyDeleteIf Waldo was serious, they'd start pushing back against City Hall and demand that the Mayor start paying attention to places outside of the downtown loop.
This is a problem 35 years in the making. If KC doesn't invest in schools, eventually there will be no one who can live in our better neighborhoods. This is what we get for ignoring the problems facing KCPS.
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ReplyDeleteMore like KC POS.
Waldo area and all points south so to speak have been on life support for a long time. And people wonder why it keeps declining. The answer is easy just look at who is running Kansas City proper and it's all there plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteJames Sly
Troy Schulte
Darryl Forte
Ronnie Burt
Rev Cleaver
And the list goes on but you get my drift of the real issue here.
When I first came to KC I was given a tour of Waldo by moire than one realtor. I could not the and can not now grasp what the hell is supposed to be the big deal. There are neighborhoods all over the metro that beat the living hell out of Waldo and its way over valued legacy technology shacks. Granted Waldo is not yet a ghetto, which is probably good news given it is in Kansas City, but come on folks, it is just an average community are that is way over hyped.
ReplyDeleteSimple, really.
ReplyDeleteDrive the niggers away.
Who cares where they go?
Yes, the NIGGERS need to be eliminated but driving them away will do nothing. The stinking bastards will just return. What's needed here is a final solution.
ReplyDeleteWaldo had it's real time as a niche in Kansas City way back and I mean way back as in like when the real trolley cars were still running along Wornall. And yes, it was a really a suburb at one time.
ReplyDeleteWaldo beats the heck out of living in the 'burbs in beige cul-de-sacs where nothing interesting ever happens.
ReplyDeleteYou lived in the burbs or are you just talking out your ass?
ReplyDeleteThis is sooooo sad and incredibly senseless. NIGGERS are again, ruining another KC landmark, Brookside. These filthy beasts have destroyed so much that was Kansas City and now, are fucking up another once beautiful area. How much destruction will KC and the nation put up with before we finally stand up and say "enough NIGGERS, no more!"????
ReplyDeleteSuperdave is right. My ma used to tell me that when she was a teenager, there was only farm land south of 75th street / Waldo was the south edge of town. It's hard to even comprehend that now, with everything south of 75th street now just being crap.
ReplyDeleteWaldo basically did this to itself.
ReplyDeleteHigh Crime areas have an over abundance
of Liquor Licenses.
The Crime stats are very telling, whether its the P&L , 39th West, Westport or or Main all have nightly crime. Time to pull the plug on proliferation of Bars ,Dance Clubs and package liquor
Just wait till that halfway house goes wrong. That is what really killed Waldo.
ReplyDeleteWaldo used to be solid working-class families. But those are the people who can't afford private schools for their kids. So nowadays, they don't live in KC anymore. How hard is that to figure out? Replacing them with hipsters ... yeah, right. What kind of income does the average hipster have? Share rentals. Not a recipe for neighborhood vitality.
ReplyDeletewaldo = world class shithole. Time to leave.
ReplyDeleteAgain, it is NIGGERS that have destroyed Waldo and nothing else.
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