homelysage

I've lived in Pendleton Heights for three years. The architecture is what initially attracted me, but the sense of community is what really made me fall in love with my neighborhood.
There are three schools within PH (Scuola Vita Nuova (charter), Garfield Elementary, and the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences). Pendleton Heights also falls within the district of Crossroads Academy, the new charter school at 10th and Central. Several children are attending this inaugural year, and two of those teachers live here in the neighborhood.
Crime stats are in line with River Market, Columbus Park, and other downtown neighborhoods. The KCMO Central Patrol distributes a daily report if you'd ever want more information about that.
Within the neighborhood, we have a monthly neighborhood association meeting, monthly neighborhood socials (okay...parties), a mom's group, a book club, a knitting group, dog walking, volunteer opportunities and countless ways to get out and meet your neighbors and become part of a community.
PH residents are truly an eclectic mix of people. It's always been a place for first generation immigrants (from the Irish in the late 1800s to Italian, Vietnamese, and now Mexico, Somalia, Burma and Bhutan immigrants and refugees). And that helps add to the unique flavor and substance you find in PH. Where else can you walk in one direction for dumplings, and another for goat soup?
And the passing of the Independence Avenue CID in the fall of 2012 means that we have extra street cleanup.
And we qualified for Google Fiber! PH gets wired by the fall of 2013.
Oh! And the parks! Holy cow, we have a lot of parks. Cliff Drive runs along the northern end, with plans to build and extension and connect that trail to the River Market in the next couple of years. We also have Independence Plaza Park, Kessler Park and two Boulevards as part of the original Park and Boulevard system in KC. The disc golf course runs along the north edge of the neighborhood.
And the place is beautiful. But I'm admittedly biased since I'm in love with the place. I can't imagine living anywhere else.