Kansas City Manager Platt Claims 'Unprecedented' Lady Soccer Economic Boom

As always, the reason that people come back to our blog is because we share DOCUMENTED context that most other media outlets conveniently forget. 

Remember this one?!?

"Former KCMO employee says city manager encouraged staff to 'lie to the media' in lawsuit"

Of course, in this instance we're obliged to take the dude at his word.

And, actually, it's kind of scary . . . 

IS KANSAS CITY'S ECONOMIC FUTURE NOW DEPENDENT ON LADY SOCCER?!?

If so, that's a VERY RISKY proposition and one that has NEVER worked out in American history. 

Of course, here's his side of the story . . .

Kansas City Manager Brian Platt says seeing this amount of development all at once in the city is "unprecedented."

"We've had similar types of development in the past, like Power and Light — a big moment to transform and rebrand downtown Kansas City — but this is the next level of that, and it's bigger and better than we've ever seen before," Platt told KCUR's Up To Date.

Among the projects is a new neighborhood of apartments and businesses that will be created next to the Kansas City Current’s stadium on the Berkley Riverfront, a project that will cost $800 million alone. That project is a partnership between development agency Port KC and the Current.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City Manager Brian Platt says amount of development around the city is 'unprecedented'