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WHERE'S WALDO ?
Need help finding your way to the Waldo Area?
Map Your Way!
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"It’s a Wonderful Life” |
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“I think it’s starting a pretty happy life,” said Diane Botwin, principal of Botwin Commercial Development and Botwin Property Management. She’s referring to the new building at 75th and Washington streets that has recently opened with Kennedy’s as its major tenant. Her comments were based on what she has seen and experienced, and from feedback she has received. “It’s been an exciting opening.”
It also hasn’t hurt that the spring and early summer weather has been so nice and conducive to opening the pocket doors at Kennedy’s, giving it an inviting indoor/outdoor look. Botwin said people have told her that the new building has been a nice, almost natural transition. “It still feels very much like a neighborhood bar and grill,” she said.
Also, by implementing all of the “green” aspects into the construction, such as ceiling fans, the pocket doors, the “green” roof, wide sidewalks and breezeway, “it makes patrons feel good about what they’re doing,” said Botwin. Other tenants in the building include Wirken Photography, and the soon-to-open Coffee Girls. Botwin says there is still about 3700 square feet of the 12,000 square-foot building yet to be leased.
Yes, after such a tragic loss, a hard winter and a tough economy, it IS nice to see a happy life beginning again in Waldo!
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Waldo Mayoral Campaign |
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While the 2009-10 Waldo Mayoral Campaign year is well underway, “votes” i.e. donations, are way down from this time in years past, says WABA Executive Director Marti Lee.
Perhaps we can say that it is due to the economy. That would certainly make sense and sound reasonable – everyone has had to sacrifice and cut back. Or, we can effectively argue that the four current candidates, all with very long-standing ties to the Waldo community, are simply going about their every day business not necessarily wishing to draw attention to themselves. Again, this is a very understandable and plausible position to take on the issue.
But the fact of the matter remains that the one who has the most to gain - and consequently the most to lose - in this situation is the beneficiary of the proceeds of the race – the Hope Care Center, 115 E. 83rd Street. Just as the name implies, the Hope Care Center, the only HIV-exclusive skilled nursing facility in the region with its sixteen beds and high staff to resident ratio, provides a homelike atmosphere, which allows for “more individual attention, more smiles, and much more hope to its residents,” according to their website.
If you want to know more about Hope Care Center, please log onto their website, www.hopecarecenter.org, and read some of the stories about the residents there. This quiet little center, sitting at the corner of 83rd and Main, is making a big difference in many people’s lives, and has been doing so since 1996. Then pick up your checkbook and write a check, payable to the Southtown Foundation, 6814 Troost Ave., KCMO and write your favorite candidates name in the memo line. They are as follows: Susan Mitchell, The Wednesday Sun; Betty Tillotson, Betty Tillotson Studio of Dance; June Turley, Turley Optometrists; and Jerry Singer, Singer Automotive.
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