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I wrote a fun little story earlier this week about a couple of reasons why I'm cautiously optimistic about the long-term future of KPAC. Check it out here if you haven't done so already:
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In Defense of KPAC
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Five years after it opened, the verdict seems to be in: The Kirkwood Performing Arts Center is a boondoggle. It's easy to see how large swathes of the community arrived at that conclusion. The $26 million, 525-seat venue has lost the city an average of $225,000 per year on operations and costs it an additional $1.3 million per year in …
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Kudos to Seth Nelson and the Post-Dispatch on a really informative story on the ongoing effort to establish a Kirkwood Community Land Trust. As Coulson says in the article, this isn't a silver bullet, but it is a useful tool for keeping Kirkwood a socioeconomically diverse community. We'll need to take action on zoning if we want to actually grow the pie instead of just re-divvying up how its slices are distributed.
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In another good story, it looks like the independent Kirkwood Electric audit will be insulated from the four Council members who were on the council when the issues first became known and will instead report to the Council's three newest members: Justin Arnold, Sheila Burkett, and Deb Lavender. Mark McLean, one of the four council members the audit will shut out, joined the three new members to approve the legislation. The other three Council Members are pissed. Good for McLean to do the right thing here and step aside to help restore the public's trust in the process.
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Okay, the new renderings of the 202 public works site apartments that were included in tonight's ARB agenda officially have me excited again. Bring on the housing, baby!
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That's it for this week, talk to you soon!
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