Is a substation a good real estate investment
Is a substation a good real estate investment? Please push your ENTER key to advance thru this slide show! Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 1
What is the history of where they want the new substation? Kansas City has been a central point in the railroads since their inception. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 2
What is the history of where they want the new substation? Since the mid-1800 s, this portion of the Westside has been the realm of the railroad. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 3
What is the history of where they want the new substation? As we suggested in another slide show, the railroads abused the land rather severely. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 4
What is the history of where they want the new substation? For more than a century, the railroad dumped fuel and wastes on the ground. These waste soaked the soils. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 5
What is the history of where they want the new substation? The federal Environmental Protection Agency and Economic Development Agency recognize there are contaminated places that can be brought back into better use. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 6
What is the history of where they want the new substation? This redevelopment of polluted land is part of the brownfield redevelopment process funded by you, the taxpayer. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 7
What is the history of where they want the new substation? First, your tax dollars were used to assess the extent of the soil contamination. Once that was defined, your tax dollars were used to pay for the removal of contaminated soil. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 8
What is the history of where they want the new substation? . The removal of contaminated soil was no small task! Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 9
What is the history of where they want the new substation? 100 MILLION pounds of soil contaminated with arsenic had to be dugup and trucked away. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 10
What is the history of where they want the new substation? Six MILLION pounds of petroleum fuel contaminated soil also had to be removed. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 11
Look at our taxpayer investment! Your tax dollars paid for much of this work – testing soil, safely excavating the pollution and then finding a safe means to dispose of the contaminated soil. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 12
Look at our taxpayer investment! It didn’t end there - your tax dollars were also used to create incentives for DST to bring a rehabilitated structure on the site. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 13
Look at our taxpayer investment! Let’s tally the investment of your tax dollars to remove pollution from this Westside property. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 14
Look at our taxpayer investment! . We will be very conservative, adding neither private nor in-kind government investment/ resources. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 15
Look at our taxpayer investment! First, $100, 000 of your tax dollars were spent to investigate the property (“environmental due diligence”). Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 16
Look at our taxpayer investment! Next, $2. 3 MILLION was spent to excavate the contamated soils & cinders and dispose of that 60, 000 cubic yards of hazardous material. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 17
Look at our taxpayer investment! And not least was the funding for the revitalized real estate. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 18
Look at our taxpayer investment! A $7. 1 MILLION grant and another $7. 1 MILLION loan were invested to bring establish this ‘new’ valuable real estate. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 19
Save our investment! And guess what – everyone did such a GREAT JOB that this project (now known was the Westside Business Park) won the national 2003 Phoenix Award! Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 20
Save our investment! So we have this beautifully decontaminated site. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 21
Save our investment! It has been resurrected from a polluted industrial site to a wonderful business park. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 22
Save our investment! So WHY should we let KCP&L dump their environmental junk onto this site? Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 23
Save our investment! KCP&L has said they want to site this substation on the Westside because it is “cheap and easy” to dump it on the Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 24
Save our investment! KCP&L is WRONG! Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 25
Save our investment! We have been working too hard and too long to let KCP&L destroy the residential and community fabric of the Westside with their environmentally stressful substation. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 26
Save our Say NO! to another investment: Westside substation Substations threaten our health & safety. Substations blight our neighborhood with ugliness. Substations hurt our property values. Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 27
Save our investment: Say NO! to another Westside substation Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 28
Who needs to hear YOU say “NO Substation on the Westside” KCMO Plans & Zoning Cmte Councilman Terry Riley Chairperson (816) 513 -1629 gets email at schylon_clayton@kcmo. org Councilwoman Cindy Circo Co-Chair (816) 513 -1633 gets email at gina_boucher@kcmo. org Councilwoman Beth Gottstein (816) 513 -1616 gets email at jim_giles@kcmo. org Councilman Ed Ford (816) 513 -1601 gets email at lisa_minardi@kcmo. org Councilman John Sharp (816) 513 -1615 gets email at araceli_gallegos@kcmo. org Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 29
Who needs to hear YOU say “NO Substation on the Westside” Michael Chesser Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Great Plains Energy & KCP&L P. O. Box 418679 Kansas City, MO 64141 -9679 Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 30
Who needs to hear YOU say “NO Substation on the Westside” Michael Merriman Chairman & President Financial Holding Company 300 W 11 th St Kansas City, MO 64105 -1618 Thomas A. Mc. Donnell Chief Executive Officer & President DST Systems Vince Dasta President DST Realty 333 W. 11 th Street Kansas City, MO 64106 Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 31
Save our investment: . Say NO! to another Westside substation Westside Community Action Network We’re Better Together Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together 32
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