I have an idea.
A suggestion.
We're the "City of Fountains", right? Sure we are.
Simple, straightforward idea. (You can see where this is going).
On the entrance/exit to this magnificent, unnecessary, expensive, wasteful, fiscally and environmentally irresponsible, again, boondoggle, I'm hoping it's already been brought up and put into the plans to have a huge, beautiful fountain, of course.
It only makes sense.
It would be our way of kind of showing off but also, better yet, putting our local thumbprint on everyone's experiences as they, yes, enter and exit this new structure and our city.
We got everything else wrong about our airport from throwing away the functioning, growing one we had to now buying up this new one.
Let's get this one thing right, anyway.
And not one of those God-awful modern sculptures, drizzling water down like we had at our previous airport.
It should be a large, full-blown, beautiful, spraying fountain not unlike the one across from the entrance to Union Station. But maybe even bigger.
Also maybe not unlike the grand, once more, spraying fountains everyone sees and remembers in Las Vegas. Something like that.
As for the price and cost and paying for it?
How about one--or more--of the area's philanthropic families picking up the tab? They get naming rights and a tax write-off, of course. Maybe the Hallmark Fountain?? Or another Block? Or Kauffman? Or whomever?
So, hattya' say, Kansas City?
Let's do this.
Let's get at least one thing right about our shiny new airport.
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I agree- its unnecessary. I enjoy the simplicity of flying in and out of KCI. Its simple and fast. And really its safer from a security standpoint than one big choke point, crowded with potential victims. I like your idea. If I recall the City has a law that requires 1% of all construction projects should go to art. So the funding for a grand, classic fountain should already be there.
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