Kansas City Place

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One Kansas City Place as seen from the Power & Light Building to the Southwest

Kansas City Place was an architectural project in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, originally proposed during the real estate boom of the 1980s. Designed by Frank Morgan, a local real estate mogul and banker, it was proposed for the South Loop (So-Lo) area south of Downtown's Central Business District.

The project included a plethora of skyscrapers with uses ranging from offices to hotels and residential buildings. The project's downfall, however, came because of several reasons, not least of which was that residents complained it would ruin Kansas City's skyline, which had been the same for 30 years.

After the project failed, two other projects were also announced and cancelled for its location, and the south loop decayed over the next 10 years until the Power and Light District was proposed and construction on it was begun.

The Kansas City Place project also called for the renovation of the President Hotel and Muehlebach Hotel and their conversion to once again functioning hotels. Several years later, the west annex of the Muehlebach was torn down and replaced by a new hotel of the same size and name. The President Hotel was renovated as part of the Power and Light District, and is now the Hilton President Hotel.

Since the cancellation of Kansas City Place, Executive Hills, the chief developer of the project, decided to build several campuses around the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, all of which are called "Executive Hills: (location name)". This was one of the major reasons Overland Park became a large center for business campuses.

[edit] Skyscrapers in this project

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Architecture in Kansas City