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Courtney Richardson stands outside Parkwood Pool, where she grew up swimming on Quindaro Boulevard. It s currently closed.
Everyone deserves a safe place to swim, but we live in a region of pool haves and have-nots: This summer there are zero public pools open in Kansas City, Kansas, while Lenexa has three pools for a third of the population.
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Kansas City, Kansas, only has one public pool. It s closed this year but not empty.
With temperatures hovering at or above 90 degrees for weeks, Parkwood Pool at North 10th Street and Quindaro Boulevard shimmers like a blue jewel at the edge of the road. Filled with water, and nothing but a chain link fence keeping wishful swimmers from the promise of the other side.
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As Karen Daniels pushed her 8-year-old grandson Leland on the now lopsided swing, its chains creaked.
Her 9-year-old granddaughter Queen swung beside him, legs going back and forward to propel herself higher. Three other grandchildren, 13-year-old King, 7-year-old Empress and 1-year-old Alonzo, waited for their turns.
Husband, wife duo turn vision into reality by revitalizing Quindaro Boulevard
Sheleah and John McPherson are revitalizing Quindaro Boulevard near 18th Street one vacant building at a time.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. â Revitalizing Quindaro is a vision turning into reality for one husband-and-wife duo, and they re getting the whole community involved. We have a vision that s so enormous and so exciting, said John McPherson, owner of JLM Construction and JLM Properties.
Quindaro Boulevard â forgotten, overgrown, and vacant â has the potential to be the center of the community again, McPherson said. It s really great. People [are] really happy to see some of these buildings that haven t opened in 20, 30 years. They haven t even seen the windows without a board on them, McPherson said.