The future layout of Kansas City’s planned streetcar extension from downtown to the University of Missouri-Kansas City is on a map, with proposed stops and alignment on Main Street revealed at a recent public hearing. For the most part, the eight suggested streetcar stops mirror those in place for the MAX rapid-transit bus route now serving that stretch of Main, according to Tom Gerend, executive director of the Kansas City Streetcar Authority. The last stop near the UMKC campus would be located next to the Brookside 51 project, a 170-unit apartment building and Whole Foods grocery store. Much work remains to be done, however, before a streetcar could be operating along Main between its current southern terminus at Union Station and UMKC by 2023. Read more …