# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CxDw00yNndY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8566952-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-11T16:48:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

## Caption

The Country Club Plaza is in pain.

Some wounds are fresh, others older:

Two shootings in two weeks: A 14-year-old was struck by a bullet a week ago Saturday at 47th and Wyandotte streets. And on the same block a week earlier, a store employee trying to stop a theft was shot in the arm.

At least a dozen empty storefronts in the wake of COVID-19.

The shopping district’s entire western edge is marred by what Kansas City’s mayor calls “a pit,” a 3-acre lot left vacant after Nordstrom canceled its plan to build a department store there.

The latest injury to make headlines is financial.

As U.S. Security and Exchange Commission filings show, the Plaza’s co-owners, Taubman Centers Inc. and the Macerich Co., defaulted in May on a loan payment to their lender, Chicago-based Nuveen, whom they owe $295.2 million. Defaulting on a loan is tantamount to not paying one’s mortgage.

“I think you would have to be blind to think that the Plaza is thriving,” said Tony Shapiro, 53, a nearly lifelong Plaza-area resident whose home overlooks the district. “It’s sad.”

His sentiment echoes several city leaders, developers, business owners, residents and shoppers interviewed by The Star this past week.

Read about their ideas to revive the Plaza at the link in our bio.

📷: kctammy

#KansasCity #CountryClubPlaza #Shopping #OutdoorMall

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