Bus depot soon to be a bad urban memory

The old Greyhound bus depot in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, takes another step toward its demise this week. 

On Thursday, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will consider a nearly $2.2 million contract to demolish the eyesore at 12th and Holmes, as well as an old fire station. Both buildings sit inside the East Village redevelopment plan.

The city condemned the former Greyhound station in 2007. Its owner, tobacco wholesaler and quarry operator Anthony Barber, agreed to sell it for $5 million a year later. Surrounded by razor wire and caked in bird shit, the building went to show that the only thing more desperate than a bus station is an empty bus station.