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Irene Grootboom (c. 1969 – 2008) was a South African housing rights activist best known for her victory before the Constitutional Court in 2000. [1] The Court found that the government had not met its obligation to provide adequate alternative housing for the residents of Kraaifontein ’s Wallacedene informal settlement .
The Country Club Plaza (often called The Plaza) is a privately owned regional [1] shopping center in the Country Club District of Kansas City, Missouri.Opened in 1923, it is considered to be the first planned large outdoor suburban shopping center in the United States and among the first regional centers to accommodate shoppers arriving by car.
By 2004, Wallacedene had an estimated population of 21,000 people. The housing rights activist Irene Grootboom lived in Wallacedene. [2] Grootboom and other inhabitants won a Constitutional Court ruling in 2000 which stated that they could not be evicted without being offered alternative accommodation. [3]
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In 1988-1990, an area north and east of the mall called Benjamin Plaza was added to the commercial retail area. In the late 1980s, bus service from mid-town Kansas city was extended to the area, and by the mid to late 1990s with newer and more desirable developments further south and in Johnson County Kansas, the area began to wane.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City leaders are proposing $1 million to fund extra security, specifically better staffing busier areas like entertainment districts.
Commerce Tower is a 30-story skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, US.Constructed in 1965, it is the ninth-tallest habitable structure in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and since the completion of the City Hall, it was the first locally designed Skyscraper in Kansas City.