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Nomadic Chef Dream Kasestatad Brings His Thai Pop-Up To Shawnee’s Servaes Brewing This Weekend
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Nomadic Chef Dream Kasestatad Brings His Thai Pop-Up To Shawnee’s Servaes Brewing This Weekend

Chef Dream Kasestatad has spent over a decade firing up Thai cuisine cross-country in his mobile kitchen, Pranom Pop-Up—and to much acclaim. Since Kasestatad started slinging pad thai in a Los Angeles parking lot to make ends meet, he’s been a featured chef for music festivals like SXSW and Beale Street Festival, movie premieres and beyond.

On Saturday, Pranom Pop-Up stops at Servaes Brewing Company (10921 Johnson Dr., Shawnee) to bring authentic Thai fare to KC. Marking Kasestatad’s first time in the metro

kansascitymag.com
u/ryanmetcalf — 7 days ago
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Shawnee's overlooked Midland area getting makeover with TIF help

On Monday, the Shawnee City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to create a TIF district for an area near Interstate 435 and Midland Drive, including the Midland Entertainment District. The vote was 8-0.

Mostly located along the intersection of Interstate 435 and Midland Drive, the TIF district includes 25 already-developed commercial parcels, including B&B Theatres Shawnee 18, restaurants like Rize N Shine and Minsky’s Pizza and hotels like the Fairfield Inn and Hampton Inn.

johnsoncountypost.com
u/ryanmetcalf — 7 days ago

Have emailed support several times, after my Fiber service line was knocked off the nearby 2 poles and left laying on the yard in early March after a storm came through r/shawnee. Yet it's now coming up on 2 months later, with no fix

  • March 7th - Storm sweeps through, 1 utility pole is destroyed, fiber is pulled of a 2nd pole
  • March 8th - Electrical utility comes and replaces the pole in the early morning hours
  • March 8th (10:25a) - File my ticket with Fiber, to have my fiber re hung on both poles
  • March 8th (12:22p) - Support responds (quickly) gives me an initial timeline - "Your ticket number is: 06070686, it can take up to 10 days to be completed."
  • March 9th - GFiber branded trucks come and work on neighbors fiber, mine remains untouched
  • March 20th - Contractor from ECC asks for backyard access to "take photos for my ticket"
  • March 26th - I contact support again, as more than 10 days have elapsed
  • March 27th - Support apologizes for the delay, and let's me know - "Your repair is currently tied to Work Order WO-2057634, which is in the "Planned" stage." and tells me that "Field Operations expect to have your cable rehung and secured within the next 5 business days."
  • April 10th - Unsurprisingly, nothing has happened. I reach out to support and they drop all promises and only offer "At this stage, the resolution is in the hands of our Field Operations department, as they manage the physical dispatch of crews to service addresses. While I do not have a new specific date from them yet, marking this as a repeat follow-up typically helps move the order through the planning phase."

What can be done to finally resolve this? It is mowing season, the line crosses over both mine and my neighbors lawn, as time goes on, the chance of breakage or damage only increases. I have waited, with seemingly little progress

reddit.com
u/ryanmetcalf — 21 days ago
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“Downtown Shawnee is no longer a pass-through area. It’s a destination. But although how people are coming to downtown has evolved, Johnson Drive has not fully kept up with that pace,” he said.

While the city deserves credit for adding more parking over the years — with 560 public parking spaces now available downtown, according to the city — more needs to be done, Shackelford said.

“One of the easiest, low-cost things to do is to add on-street parking through the downtown corridor, primarily on Johnson Drive … I think it’s time to revisit that as an opportunity to help the downtown area become a destination,” he said.

u/ryanmetcalf — 26 days ago