and they shall call it- the Sea of Parking
Doubt it will happen at Jamestown Mall. Maybe the old Chrysler site in Fenton.quincunx wrote:This is exactly how we shouldn't be building. And $1.7B in subsidies to boot, not counting all the infrastructure required so that everyone can drive out there. Praying nothing like this happens to a site like Jamestown Mall.
KC BJ - $4.5B Cerner campus groundbreaking should create positive tremors
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Site plan
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http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-c ... 92682.htmlThe new Cerner Trails campus that within 15 years could feature 16,000 or so employees isn’t being built on the riverfront or on the East Side, where cheap land abounds.
Instead, the first few office towers are rising out in south Kansas City, where Bannister Mall and other retail outlets once stood. One of the main features will be huge surface parking lots, used by thousands of people every day who will have few public transit options to get to work there.
The massive, heavily publicly subsidized Cerner project is worthwhile. Some new employees will move into nearby neighborhoods. But many also likely will live in Lee’s Summit or Johnson County.
