Columbus Park Safety (Kansas City: apartments, crime, townhomes) - Missouri (MO) - City-Data Forum

catperson1947 · 07-04-2011, 01:04 AM

How safe is the Columbus Park area? We are considering retiring there.

shindig · 07-04-2011, 08:02 AM

I live in CP and I think it is a very safe area. There is definitely a community feel to the neighborhood and people watch out for their neighbors. There are some sketchy areas once you past Troost, but overall I like the area. There have been a couple random assaults and robberies in the past few months, but I think as long as you are aware of your surroundings you'll be fine. If you see anything/anybody that looks suspicious, I definitely recommend calling the police. The police are really good about patroling the area and watching out for the rift raft.

catperson1947 · 07-08-2011, 09:43 PM

Thanks for the information!

catperson1947 · 08-06-2011, 11:01 PM

Does anyone else have information about the safety of living in Columbus Park. We, a couple in our 60's, art considering retiring there.

shindig · 08-07-2011, 07:27 AM

You might get more responses regarding Columbus Park at the forum below. You have to register, but it's a great website. It seems to get more traffic and I know there are some forum members that live in Columbus Park that could give you more detailed information regarding the safety of the neighborhood. Good luck

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catperson1947 · 08-14-2011, 10:41 PM

Thanks for the information!

brewcrew1000 · 08-24-2011, 11:23 AM

Maybe it's not that safe afterall. Rolling Gunbattle down 5th Street last night, started at 5th and Troost and I think it ended all the way at 5th and Delaware.

It really sucks when crime spills over or ends up in good areas, it would be horrible if you were walking your dog that night and you witnessed this, you would literally have to duck and cover.

Gunshots damage buildings, vehicles east of River Market - KansasCity.com (http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/24/3095461/gunshots-damage-buildings-vehicles.html - broken link)

Kansas City police investigate late-night shooting - KansasCity.com (http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/23/3094572/kansas-city-police-investigate.html - broken link)
Police received several reports of shots in the area as well as a bag of money being thrown from a car near Fifth and Oak streets.

catperson1947 · 11-12-2011, 11:12 PM

Well, we have decided to move to Columbus Park after all, and have bought a townhome there.

aragx6 · 11-14-2011, 07:38 AM

Congrats! Thanks for the update!

brewcrew1000 · 11-17-2011, 08:58 AM

Even though this isn't about safety, i saw this on another forum and thought it was worth mentioning

There is currently infrastructure improvements happening along 5th and charolotte so that site will be ready for a mixed use building fronting on 5th at the northeast corner of 5th and charolotte. It will have 6 apartments upstairs and ~6400 ft of commercial on street level. parking in rear. The plan is to begin building two more similar buildings heading west towards river market, but 1 building at a time.

They also are flipping the phases and are attempting to move ahead with the apartment portion of the original proposal. This would be two three story buildings with something like 36 apts each. Don't remember exactly where that is going, but in that general vicinty. It isn't as imminent as the mixed use buildings though, just a change in phase to accomodate the market (since there is no market currently for the townhomes) ...but they made it sound like the investor are very excited about getting those off the ground as well considering there is essentially 100% occupancy in Rivermarket and DT in general.

They also talked about how they bought comedy city. After the club moved out it turned into a bit of a problem for a little while for the area and they have been trying to figure out what to do with it since. They have decided to refurbish the building and try to get some tech start-up tenants...nice

They also informed us that a law firm has bought the building on 5th and troost (i believe thats right). They will be repurposing the building and adding a floor to office out of.

Another aside worth mentioning...there are a couple of buildings still in the sloooow process of being redone, but they do seem to be coming along. one on gillis and another on troost (the big old brick kinds). good to see.
It was infuriating to see the old brick building get taken down next to Garozzos though. What a waste!