Another local blog, Inside Brookside, has the scoop on a proposed new craft beer bar coming to Brookside.  Bier Station is the brainchild of local resident John Couture.  The plan is to open up at the corner of Rockhill and Gregory–a space that’s been vacant for a good while now (and perennially advertised on Craigslist–you know for those of us that are consistently googling brookside real estate).

Inside Brookside indicates that they seem to have good support from the Armour Hills neighborhood and their Facebook Page has 65 likes, so their gaining some steam!  Sounds like the lease hasn’t been finalized so we’re probably still a few months out but what a great addition to the neighborhood this would be.  I really love Gregory Street and it’d be great to see particular strip re-invigorated with a great, locally owned business.

What do you think–a good addition to Brookside?

Google held a big, google, tech-style meeting in mid-town in Kansas City today.  At the much hyped event they announced that fiber internet access is coming to KC neighborhoods next fall.

Which neighborhoods get fiber access will be based upon demand and Google’s got a bit of a public competition set up so that you can track whose registered in your neighborhood and encourage them to pre-register for service.

Brookside is split up in to several different sub-neighborhoods but I have no doubt it will end up being on the leading edge of Fiber installation.  Our neighborhood of 49-63 already had 6 people pre-registered by the time I checked the website, within minutes of the site going live.

You can read a bunch more details here.  The Fox, for one, is excited!

Overall it appears as though Google’s been happy with their partnership with KC thus far, with the CFO stating “Kansas City has been the perfect choice.”

The event was simulcast live on youtube, and started with a cute little video–you can check it out here.

News came across the wire (and by that, we mean the twitter) last week that Kansas City School Board member Derek Richey is resigning.  He’s leaving KC to move to Tennessee where he’s taken a new job.  Richey served as the District 2 board member–an area which includes Brookside.

The School District announced that the Board of Education will notify the elections Board which will hold a special election to fill the seat–probably concurrent with the November elections.

The Kansas City Star has a very short write up on his departure.

With all the school board controversy over the past few years, and the potential that the state will take authority away from the school board, it will be interesting to see who steps up for this role.