An Idea and Hope for the New Boondoggle Airport

Okay, so we're getting a new airport, a single terminal airport and it's going to cost us all big time and the tear down and new construction is going on now. We all know that.

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.

Link:

KCI Airport Art Project Moves Ahead Led by Public Art Consultant Community Arts International

Kansas City Gets Another Great Write-Up

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Kansas City did, in fact, get yet another good, positive, maybe glowing write up by way of this clickbait article from The Daily Mail. It was in the following article.

 

The Biggest City in Every State

What they had to say about us:

Not to be confused with the neighboring city of the same name in Kansas itself, this is a beautiful city of approximately 480,000 that is often missed by tourists. It said that only Rome has more fountains than Kansas City, Missouri, which also supposedly has more boulevards than Paris. Art deco buildings decorate downtown streets, and the historic city market has plenty of dining and shopping options, as well as a farmers market. The 18th and Vine Historic District houses the American Jazz Museum as well as the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and other museums in the city include the National World War I Museum and Liberty Memorial, Crown Center (home of Hallmark Cards and the Hallmark Museum), and a few art museums to boot. The Crossroads Arts District has been referred to as the SoHo of the Midwest, and is particularly busy during the summer. The Kansas City food scene is another reason to stop here. Barbecue food is a local specialty, and the American Royal BBQ Contest is the largest of its kind.

Not just the biggest city in the state but maybe one of the best, as well?

Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.