Fake news surveys by City Hall touting the success of the toy train seem to overlook the growing number of Kansas City small biz giving up on the City Market.
Here's the latest merchant who decided to abandon the district now cut off by bad local planning.
A KICK-ASS TKC READER comment on the departure:
"KC streetcar is harming downtown small-businesses. They have claimed yet another victim. Will the last small business forced out of River Market by the trolley, please turn the lights off?"
Like it or not, biz closing makes a much bigger impression than surveys City Hall has skewed for years and always seem to signal that KCMO residents are happy with their lot in life despite stagnant population numbers while the suburbs boom.
The reality is: Only one media outlet picked up the story about the streetcar small biz boom while the downtown restaurant community was crippled by streetcar construction and doesn't seem to be singing many praises to day.
You decide . . .
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