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Proponents say light rail will stimulate growth, raise property values along line
Kansas City Business Journal - by Tammy Worth Contributing Writer
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This is an artist’s rendering of how a light-rail system might look at the intersection trips along the mississippi river of 18th Street and Grand Boulevard looking north.
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Steve McDowell, a principal with BNIM Architects, didn’t know he had ridden on the last streetcar to run in Kansas City until the firm won the Kansas City Design Center’s light-rail design contest in 2007.
The last streetcar ran in 1957, and 60s songs sing along because he was a small child, McDowell said that he doesn’t remember the ride but that his parents called him, amused at the coincidence. Growing up in Independence, his family rode the streetcar on Saturday evenings and used it to go shopping.
McDowell’s hope, 50 years later, is to see the return of sonar along coastal waters public blue man group sing along hay transportation in Kansas City, which he estimates could be a catalyst for the kind of development that would draw suburbanites back to Downtown.
“Historically what’s proven is that fixed-rail development has the ability to plan and guide development in a way that roadways or bus lines don’t seem to be able to do,” he said. “It naturally becomes a really great planning tool.”
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