TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY INSIDERS PLAY 'RENAISSANCE NORTH' BLAME GAME AMID EFFORT TO DUMP DOWNTOWN CONVENTION HOTEL!!!!

Behind the scenes, vicious fighting over the Downtown Convention Hotel proposal and the ongoing City Council effort to abandon obligations negotiated by Mayor Sly and City Manager Troy Schulte continues to rage with even more rhetorical tactics.

To wit . . .

OLD SCHOOL ACCUSATIONS OVER THE FAILED "RENAISSANCE NORTH" DEVELOPMENT ARE BEING THROWN BY BOTH SIDES OF THE DOOMED DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CONVENTION HOTEL DEBATE!!!

For those who don't know . . .

Renaissance Village and Prospect North . . . Called for an 80-acre mixed-use development near Maple Woods Community College. But the project encountered numerous roadblocks and never really got off the ground. A couple of years ago the city settled claims for about 7 million.

Like a great deal of the Northland . . . A lot of the project remains a suburban wasteland where the hint of upcoming development offers a haunting sketch of a neighborhood what was abandoned before it was constructed.



Now . . .

The nasty accusations going back and forth blame some politicos for long ago vote on the project while Mayor Sly is supporting his pal Mike Burke's Downtown Hotel plan despite the power player's pivotal role in the Northland flop.



While we're on the subject of lawyers . . . Here's where things get really tricky . . .



ONCE AGAIN MAYOR'S SLY'S ADMINISTRATION USES THREATS OF LEGAL ACTION TO SCARE COUNCIL INTO DOUBLING DOWN ON THE DOOMED DOWNTOWN CONVENTION HOTEL PROJECT!!!

While the financial hole of fees, planning and consulting grows deeper . . . Mayor Sly's team is trying hard to keep council from bailing out before the debt is insurmountable. Yet again the Mayor's people are reminding Council that the KCMO commitment to the project is contractual while many critics of the project are willing to gamble that developers won't sue and can't win given the limited interest in the already controversial endeavor.

At this point, the upcoming Dec. 20th deadline is mostly for show and a lack of significant investors, a competing project from the Hilton and City Council skepticism has doomed this project that once again threatens to discard another Kansas City scheme before it really gets started.

Developing . . .