Brookside Alive
We'd like to share some of the exciting things happening in Brookside. Let's commemorate the people, businesses and everything that makes this part of Kansas City so great! #brooksidealive #myj29
Walkthrough of Brookside House Kansas City MO
Brookside, Kansas City
A photo album of one of the city's streetcar suburbs
5B&Co. Candlemakers Kansas City Custom Candles 816-361-6393 Brookside
5B&Co. Candlemakers
6231 Brookside Plaza
Kansas City, MO 64113
(816) 361-6393
5B&Co. Candlemakers is locally owned, operated and loved.
By using top-notch ingredients and handcrafting our candles in small batches, we ensure that every product meets our high standards. With quirky, charming names like I’m the Boss Applesauce, You Bet Your Sweet Grass and Clean Undies, you are sure to find a one-of-a-kind fragrance made with a sophisticated palate. We never, ever pour grumpy or out of sorts and that happiness goes home with you in the form of a flicker.
We're Famous! We won 435 Magazine's BEST OF KANSAS CITY HOME FRAGRANCE!
5B&Co. Candlemakers first opened its doors in 1997, in downtown Weston, Missouri. Founded by Marsha Flowers, our products have delighted customers and created a following across the United States. This 1837 town is a small, charming community nestled among the high bluffs of the Missouri River. In 2003, 5B&Co. Candlemakers expanded to the Brookside Shops in Kansas City, MO. Currently, 5B&Co. Candlemakers is located only in the Heart of Brookside.
5B&Co. Candlemakers has maintained a home in the Brookside Shops for over a decade. This Kansas City gem has been fulfilling J.C. Nichols’ vision for the absolute best in neighborhood shopping, dining and services for nearly a century. Located in the area of 63rd Street, between Main and Wornall Road, over 80 shops, restaurants and service providers call this area home.
KC on KC: Dive Bars
Raise a glass for Kansas City’s dive bars: establishments as eclectic as they are beloved, each one with a story to tell and a drink to serve.
This film was created in cooperation with Bark Productions. Learn more at
KC on KC is a collaborative video series brought to you by Visit KC and a group of local filmmakers to showcase the beauty and creativity of our fair city ... straight from the eyes of locals.
KC among safest neighborhoods in U.S.
Kansas City is home to one of the safest neighborhoods in the country.
Kansas City, Missouri: The City of Fountains!
It is said that Kansas City, Missouri has more working fountains than anywhere else in the world including Rome. Whether or not that is true I don’t know but there are 200 officially registered fountains around the KC area. This does not include private fountains of homes and businesses. When I started filming for this video my plan was to film maybe 20 fountains. Well I ended up filming a little more than that plus a couple waterfalls lol. I hope you enjoy the video and be sure to check some of these out if you’re ever in KC!
J. C Nichols Fountain
Seville Light Fountain
Neptune Fountain
Plaza Wall Fountain
Court of the Penguins Fountains
Diane Sitting Fountain
April Fountain
Pomona Fountain
Mermaid Fountain
Four Fauns Fountain
Allen Memorial Fountain
Fountain of Bacchus
Lions Court Fountain
Boy And Frog Fountain
Kansas City Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fountain
Kansas City Firefighters Memorial Fountain
Barney Allis Plaza Fountain
Sea Horse Fountain
Spirit of Freedom Fountain
Hillside Fountain
Gift of Life Fountain
William Volker Memorial Fountain And Waterfall
Woman with Shell Fountain
Ewing & Muriel Kauffman Memorial Fountain
Parterre Garden Fountain
Crown Center Entrance Fountains
Crown Center Square Fountain
Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain
Eagle Scout Tribute Fountain
Loose Park Lake Fountain
Adam & Eve Fountain
Laura Conyers Smith Rose Garden Fountain
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Halloween In Kansas City KC Realtor KC Home Hub
Spooky house on Oak Street in Brookside, KCMO
Kansas City (HD)
Here is a video of Kansas City, Missouri located in the United States. Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metro area in Missouri. It encompasses 318 square miles (820 km2) in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, which is to the city's east. As of February 6, 2010, it was revealed that the US census had underestimated Kansas City's population, and re-released it to be 490,830,with a metro area of over two million. Kansas City was founded in 1838 as the Town of Kansas at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers and was incorporated in its present form in 1850. Situated opposite Kansas City, Kansas, the city was the location of several battles during the Civil War, including the Battle of Westport. The city is well known for its contributions to the musical styles of jazz and blues as well as to cuisine (Kansas City-style barbecue).
Kansas City, Missouri, is often abbreviated as KCMO, or simply KC (both abbreviations often refer to the metro area). It is officially nicknamed the City of Fountains. With over 200 fountains, the city claims to have the second most in the world, just behind Rome. The fountains at Kauffman Stadium, commissioned by original Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman, are the largest privately-funded fountains in the world. The city also has more boulevards than any city except Paris and has been called Paris of the Plains. Residents are known as Kansas Citians. It is sometimes referred to colloquially as the Heart of America as it is near both the population center of the United States and the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states.
In 1831 a group of Mormons from New York settled in an area that would later be part of Kansas City. They built the first school within the current boundaries of the city, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833 and their settlement was left vacant.
In 1833 John McCoy established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail, three miles (5 km) away from the river. Then in 1834, McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri River to serve as a landing point for West Port. Soon after, the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, taking their name from an English spelling of Cansez. In 1850 the landing area was incorporated as the Town of Kansas.
By that time, the Town of Kansas, Westport, and nearby Independence, had become critical points in America's westward expansion. Three major trails -- the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon -- all originated in Jackson County.
On February 22, 1853, the City of Kansas was created with a newly elected mayor. It had an area of 0.70 square miles (1.8 km2) and a population of 2,500. The boundary lines at that time extended from the middle of the Missouri River south to what is now Ninth Street, and from Bluff Street on the west to a point between Holmes Road and Charlotte Street on the east.
Kansas City, Missouri, is organized into a system of more than 240 neighborhoods, some with histories as independent cities or the sites of major events. Downtown, the center of the city, is currently undergoing major redevelopment with new condos, apartments, offices and The Power & Light District (shopping/entertainment development) complete with bars, restaurants, a grocery store with a tony roof-top pool club called The Jones, a theatre and The Sprint Center. All these things have made downtown/midtown a more viable residential option more than ever. Near Downtown, the urban core of the city has a variety of neighborhoods, including historical Westport, Ivanhoe, Hyde Park, Squire Park, the Crossroads Arts District, 18th and Vine Historic District, Pendleton Heights, Quality Hill, the West Bottoms, and the River Market; one up-and-coming newer neighborhood just minutes from downtown is upscale Briarcliff, though it is in the so-called North-land or simply North of the River. Two other near downtown neighborhoods that are very popular and have unique appeal include the Country Club Plaza (or simply the Plaza), south Plaza and nearby Brookside.
KC Family Returns From Week With Obamas
A Brookside family spent much of the past week with President Barack Obama and his family.
Study shows where millennials want to live in Kansas City
Brookside, Waldo and Midtown are popular places for millennials to live, but a new study reveals up-and-coming areas that could see more development in the years ahead.
Country Club Plaza District - Kansas City
A 4k aerial tour of the Country Club Plaza area using my Mavic Pro and Litchi. Gimbal needs to be calibrated, please forgive left side of video. It was a nice flight though. Music used with permission by Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Magic Fingers off their 1992 album UFO Tofu.
The Country Club District is the name of a group of neighborhoods comprising a historic upscale residential district in Kansas City, Missouri, and Johnson County, Kansas, USA, developed by noted real estate developer J.C. Nichols. The district was developed in stages between 1906 and 1950, and today is home to approximately 60,000 and includes such well-known Kansas City neighborhoods as Sunset Hill and Brookside in Missouri, Mission Hills, Fairway, and the oldest parts of Prairie Village in Kansas, making it the largest planned community built by a single developer in the United States. Ward Parkway, a wide, manicured boulevard, traverses the district running south from the Country Club Plaza, the first suburban shopping district in the United States.
J.C. Nichols began developing the district in 1906 with a neighborhood he called Bismarck Place. As his development expanded to include Countryside, he began to develop a master plan, which he dubbed the Country Club District because of its proximity to what was then the site of Kansas City Country Club, now Loose Park. Eventually, Nichols acquired a tract of land crossing from Missouri into Kansas, which now includes the neighborhood of Sunset Hill (in Missouri) and the city of Mission Hills (in Kansas). Nichols also built the nearby Country Club Plaza, the first shopping district in the United States designed to accommodate patrons arriving by automobile. Today, the Country Club District is the largest contiguous planned community built by a single developer in the United States.
Nichols used restrictive covenants, or deed restrictions, in each property in the district to control the use of the land. Most of the covenants pertain to the uses to which the property owner could put his land, or setback and free space requirements.
A controversial aspect of the covenants in the district, however, was the use of racial restrictions that prohibited ownership and occupation by African Americans. The 1948 Supreme Court decision Shelley v. Kraemer rendered such restrictions unenforceable, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited the future incorporation of such covenants. Nevertheless, restrictions continue to appear in the deeds to Country Club District properties. The restrictions require that a notice to amend be filed five years in advance of the deed restrictions renewal date, usually every 20 to 25 years; and that all homeowners must agree to the change with a notarized vote. This practical difficulty is the reason racial restrictions continue to appear throughout the district. At the same time, this practical difficulty has protected the other covenants from change, and thus has helped to preserve the essential character of the neighborhood and to resist encroachment by commercial developers.
While he utilized the restrictive covenant model to bar non-whites from his neighborhoods, Nichols was not the first in Kansas City to engage in the practice. In fact, such practice had been in full force in Kansas City since the time Nichols was born in the 1880s. Moreover, although Nichols's covenants were discriminatory, Kansas City historian William S. Worley noted that Nichols was among the first of his contemporaries to abandon the practice of barring sale to Jews.
Today the Country Club District is still predominantly white, and still is home to Kansas City's wealthiest residents.
The Country Club district includes many homes by or after plans of many noted architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, McKim, Mead, and White, Louis Curtiss, and Mary Rockwell Hook. Several homes are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Notable residents of the Country Club District have included:
Mayor Harold Roe Bartle
Mayor Richard L. Berkley
H&R Block founders Richard Bloch and Henry Bloch
Senator Kit Bond
Major League Baseball Hall of Famer George Brett
author Evan S. Connell
Hallmark Cards chairman Donald J. Hall, Sr.
Hallmark Cards founder Joyce Hall
composer John Kander
businessman R. Crosby Kemper Jr.
pharmaceutical magnate Ewing Kauffman and his wife Muriel Kauffman
United States Senator Claire McCaskill
UCLA and KU chancellor Franklin David Murphy
political boss Tom Pendergast
Ambassador Charles H. Price II
columnist Calvin Trillin
professional golfer Tom Watson
Mayor Charles Wheeler.
Whew! Did you read all that? Why? :-)
Land of Opportunity
During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law a series of programs called the New Deal intended to rebuild the nation. Some of those programs encouraged discriminatory housing policies such as redlining, resulting in dilapidation of 85% of Kansas City’s black neighborhoods.
Well-to-do black families set their sights on the prestigious Santa Fe Place neighborhood, located just south of the black East Side. Established by rich white elites, the neighborhood association filed a racially restrictive covenant, intended to bar black families from moving into the area for 30 years.
A black physician named Dr. Dennis Madison Miller, among others, took the neighborhood association to the Missouri Supreme Court four times in their attempt to move into the neighborhood. After the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Shelley vs. Kraemer, ruling racially restrictive covenants to be unconstitutional, black families moved into Santa Fe Place four times faster than any other neighborhood where they could purchase property.
Land of Opportunity is the story of integration in the Santa Fe Place neighborhood as one example in the fight for housing rights across America following the Great Depression.
Taste and See: Waldo Thai
The Liberda Family has been known in the area as the best Kansas City Thai food, so when we heard about their new spot in Waldo, we had to check I tout. Ed Herman of Brown and Crouppen joins us at Waldo Thai as part of this week’s Taste and See.
Kansas City Foundation Repair (Brookside)
The King Piers LLC Team are experts at eliminating water infiltration into the basement. If you are getting water in your basement after a steady rain, the water is entering the home either through a crack in the foundation wall or a crack in the floor. Keep in mind that the concrete floor is sitting on 1/3 of the concrete footing. Water can enter inside a basement by leaching in underneath the wall and on top of the footing. The water will enter where the floor meets the wall. The King Piers Methodology is different than the other systems. We always saw cut the concrete prior to removal of the concrete floor when installing a Water Track System. The King Piers way is to go to where the water is. We install our 2 - 4 PVC Pipes 2 ft below the footing. Most other systems go next to the footing which is too shallow to properly pick up ground water. If your home is showing signs of settlement call the experts that will explain in detail why your home is sinking and then give you a choice of the best King Pier for solving your settlement issues forever. King Piers LLC King Pier I, II, III or IV will solve your issues. Over 7000 King Piers installed without failure! The Biggest and Best Foundation Pier is the King Pier. The King Piers Team will travel anywhere in the United States to Save a Sinking Home, Building or Structure! King Piers LLC is a family owned foundation repair company. If you have a sunken concrete driveway or patio the King Pier II can easily raise and stabilize your floor permanently! Mud Jacking works but in a short period of time the mud jacking fails and the structure sinks again. This will Never happen when the King Pier II is used to raise a floor, patio or driveway. The King Pier II is used when raising a sunken concrete bridge approach slab and will work perfect for your sunken slab as well, GUARANTEED!
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Kansas City, Missouri - Quick snapshot in photos
This is a brief snapshot of our bustling metropolis that borders 2 states - Missouri & Kansas. Many wonderful neighborhoods with so many personalities. From Kansas City's:
Downtown
Crossroads
Crown Center
Westport
The Plaza
Brookside
Waldo
Marlborough
The Westside
18th & Vine
Red Bridge
Martin City
South Kansas City
North of the River/Kansas City North
and surrounding suburbs on the Kansas and Missouri side of the state line, which we border.
The best of the big city with a small town feel conveniently tucked in the heart of the midwest!
If you are relocating to our area, and need more information about our neighborhoods, contact me for an expanded video, or any other details about our city in any specific area in Kansas City.
Stacey
Stacey Johnson-Cosby
Real estate agent
Reece & Nichols REALTORS
816-591-5921
johncos02@gmail.com
913-677-6300
KansasCitySouth.com
Waldo KCMO You Never Need to Leave Long
Meet Theresa Van Ackeren of Family Bicycles LLC and John Couture of Bier Station, two great Waldo businesses, who will highlight the best this small, but wonderful, neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri has to offer! Waldo...you never need to leave!
Kansas City Plaza
A short detailed film of me walking on the Kansas City Plaza.
The Country Club Plaza (often referred to as The Plaza) is an upscale shopping district and residential neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It was the first shopping center in the world designed to accommodate shoppers arriving by automobile. The 55 acre (223,000 m²) site is about four miles (6.44 km) south of downtown, between 45th and 51st streets to the north and south and between Broadway and Madison Street to the east and west. The Kansas state line is one mile (1.6 km) to the west. Established in 1922 by J. C. Nichols and designed architecturally after Seville, Spain, the Plaza comprises high-end retail establishments, restaurants, and entertainment venues, as well as offices. The neighborhoods surrounding the Plaza consist of apartment buildings and upscale houses, especially those of the Country Club District built along Ward Parkway on the Plaza's southern and southwestern side. The Country Club Plaza is named in the Project for Public Spaces' list 60 of the World's Great Places.
The basic design of the Country Club Plaza reflects classic European influences, especially those of Seville, Spain, yet it curiously does not include a traditional open plaza. There are more than thirty statues, murals, and tile mosaics on display in the area, as well as major architectural reproductions, such as a half-sized Giralda Tower of Seville (the tallest building in the Plaza). The Plaza also includes precise light fixture reproductions of San Francisco's Path of Gold streetlights. Other works of art celebrate the classics, nature, and historical American themes such as westward expansion.
Although the Plaza was designed and built to accommodate visitors arriving by automobile, it is unlike modern shopping malls with sprawling parking lots: parking is discreetly concealed in multilevel parking garages beneath and behind the shops, or hidden on the rooftops of buildings. Thus the Plaza does not suffer from the sprawl that afflicts modern shopping centers, and this design makes it friendly to pedestrians.
The Plaza was also the first shopping center to use the percentage lease, where rents are based on a percentage of the gross receipts of tenants.This concept was novel at the time when J.C. Nichols invented it, but it is now a standard practice in commercial leases. The fountain with four equestrian statues, designed by Henri-Léon Gréber, was purchased from a Long Island Gold Coast Estate, Harbor Hill.
Several companies are based in the Country Club Plaza area, including American Century Investments, Russell Stover Candies, Inergy and Gates Bar-B-Q. The Kansas City Board of Trade is also located in the district.
LileStyle Productions presents Our Waldo - Kansas City Missouri Mayor Sly James
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Brookside neighbors say tax money is wasted
With the possibility of Southwest High School closing, people who live nearby said it’s unfair they’re paying high property taxes with no decent area schools.
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