I grew up in KC.
We called it ‘Pecker park’. You never go there after dark unless their is a big event. Then they spend a week cleaning up the place to get it ready.
It’s a disgrace. Couldn’t the establish something like a dog park on the west bottoms somewhere?
Its renovation in 2000-2004 was quite extensive. I was involved in it conceptually to a small degree. You would like the changes.
It still has the mid-town issues that surround it but even those have scaled down in the last fifteen years.