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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
We'll have to agree to disagree on that.
The infill difference is very much a trailing factor IMO.
The main difference over the 7 decades in question was that core Indy and KC sunk a lot lower than core Columbus and Milwaukee during the first 5 decades of that period.
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Have you followed KC at all? They've built quite a decent amount of apartment units downtown in the past decade while continuing to convert old warehouse, factory stuff into lofts, apartments or condos. The expanded streetcar line is really helping to tie the inner-city together from the expanding riverfront neighborhood/KC Current women's soccer stadium (so successful it will grow by 5,000 seats) through downtown all the way to the Country Club plaza and UMKC campus.
At Hallmark's Crown Center the new KC Royals stadium is to be built a stone's throw from the streetcar line.
Kansas City's future looks bright to me. But to most it's kind of like a "sleeper" Metro kind of like Minneapolis, constantly improving while most of the country forgets it exists.
KC streetcar May 2026 ridership numbers. The busiest day after the riverfront extension opened was over 40,000 riders.
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