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It’s not just Bannister Mall. The mall might have been the initial site of the wound, but the infection has spread in all directions. Drive down Blue Ridge from 87th Street south to Longview (115th Street) and look at the smaller strip-malls like Loma Vista and Ruskin and the businesses that have closed. Further to the east is the Robindee shopping center that once served the needs of the residents in the immediate area. You could walk to the grocery, there was a laundry, at one time there was a library there and hardware store, and a florist shop—they’re all gone. All that remains are a few small businesses that do not really serve much of the community. Eventually, it will go the way of the Bannister Mall and all the businesses will be close.

Take a tour of the residential streets east of Blue Ridge and you’ll find an abundance of for sale signs. Once privately owned signal family homes are now rental houses and show the distinctive signs of rental property. There is trash and old furniture hauled out to the curb and left there for the city to pick up, if it ever gets around to it. Property values are falling like the leaves of fall. Once a great neighborhood in which to live and raise a family is just about gone. The inner city has come to suburbia.

Great photos, I saw you in the window. Ha ha
But those tires need to be reported, that is a fire hazard.

It's a F'N Plague! These people turn everything to SH!T! Independence Center is well on it's way! Have you seen the crowds there lately? If these worthless people, gangsters and thugs would learn some respect, things would stay nice! First they move in all around ruining all the once nice neighborhoods, then they trash all the homes and parks, then they find anything else that looks nice and maintained and trash it too! Is that Racist or FACT? They don't respect themselves, others or anything for that matter. They hold themselves back in society. Maybe Obama being elected will change them but I seriously doubt it!

ahh hello racist of the year! get a life loser!

I didn't name a color or a race! It's the type of people. Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Samoans.... They all fall into this category! Look around! I'm always considered a racist for stating facts and yet I don't ever put it on one race! ?? That is how you perceive it, not how I stated it! It is a certain kind of people, but not any particular race. Open your minds, and look at the real FACTS, racists!

1 point that made it clear a race you were talking about aka newport smokes and when you said The clean ones are RARE, and normally successful! LEARN SOME F'N R.E.S.P.E.C.T., A "SISTER" wrote a song about it! Still,None.

so get off it, you were being racist. i think your
smoking made you stupid.

wow smitty , um.. bigoted statements beget bigoted people :( ... maybe i am a naive flower child but try going about the problem as a village not just an individual

if you see something wrong with our village , then dont stand around and point fingers . do something about it , "dont stand just cause man, ..stand up for a JUST CAUSE."

you have a ligament complaint you just went about it in the most un "it takes a village" kinda way.

yes the decay of our city is fast becoming a cancer , so please lets rally around the business owners and families that want KC to work. We have to stick together, not fight.Visit your local business that has been holding out in your community and trying to make KC how it once was.

If society continues to argue and bicker with each other we are going to look like damn fools when the Aliens from outer space land and see us all fighting amongst all of man kind .:)
One world not one Nation, you should always think Global but go Local, cleaning up the world starts with your own front yard .

I still live in that area and am sickened by what it has become. Mom and Dad moved there in '54, we survived the '57 tornado and rebuilt. I graduated from Ruskin while it was still AAA accredited and you could get a decent education and you didn't have to worry about kids carrying guns and knives to school.

It was more than the Metro bus that ruined Bannister Mall. HUD and Section 8 helped as much as the mall security not taking care of hoodlums and thugs loitering around and harassing people because we all had to be politically correct and not offend any certain ethnic groups. We can thank Cleaver and Barnes for not taking an interest in South KC so they could fulfill their own agenda of a Negro Baseball Museum and the 18th & Vine area (even though hardly anyone wants to go down there) and of course, the Power and Light District and the Sprint Center....Kay Barnes's memorial to herself. Their thought was just "to hell with South KC". Now the mall has become a place to have gun shows in an area where guns are clearly not needed. All of my shopping and restaurant dollars (and those taxes) go to Lees Summit. Barnes and Cleaver screwed up big time forgetting that all of us 'down south' live in their city too!

Black is black. I want my baby back.

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