Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center

Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center
Sheraton Kansas City Hotel with glass skyway connection to Crown Center.
Location United States
Address 2345 McGee Street
Kansas City, Missouri
Hotel chain Sheraton
Opening date July 1, 1980
Developer Crown Center Redevelopment Corporation
Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes
PBNDML
Management Starwood Hotels
Owner Hallmark Cards
Cost US$150 million
Rooms 733
Suites 39
Restaurants Crayola Cafe
Milano
Spectators
Terrace
Floors 45
Total height 153.62 m (504.0 ft)
References: [1][2][3]

The Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center is a 153.62 m (504.0 ft), 45-story hotel in the Crown Center complex in Kansas City, Missouri.

The hotel opened on July 1, 1980 as the Hyatt Regency Kansas City and was Missouri's tallest building from 1980 to 1986. It is now the state's sixth tallest building and is Kansas City's third tallest building.

In 1987, the hotel was renamed Hyatt Regency Crown Center. It was again renamed the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center on December 1, 2011.[4]

Crown Center complex was built by Hallmark, adjacent to their headquarters, and southeast of the Downtown freeway loop where most of Kansas City's tallest buildings are located.

It has 42,860 sq ft (3,982 m2) of function space, a 17,487 sq ft (1,624.6 m2) ballroom and a dedicated exhibit hall with 15,360 sq ft (1,427 m2). It has 733 guestrooms, including 42 suites.[5]

The hotel was formerly topped by a revolving rooftop restaurant, Skies, which closed along with the hotel's Peppercorn Duck Club when the hotel left Hyatt.[6]

Skybridge collapse

Main article: Hyatt Regency walkway collapse

On July 17, 1981, 114 people were killed in the hotel when the fourth floor walkway in the atrium collapsed on the second floor walkway during a tea dance attended by more than 2,000 revelers in the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. An investigation revealed that tie rods supporting the walkway did not meet Kansas City building codes.[7]

References

  1. ^ Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center at Emporis
  2. ^ Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center at SkyscraperPage
  3. ^ Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center at Structurae
  4. ^ http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Hyatt-Regency-Kansas-City-to-become-a-Sheraton/
  5. ^ (.PDF) Hyatt Regency Crown Center. Global Hyatt. 19 May 2011. http://crowncenter.hyatt.com/hyatt/images/hotels/mkcrk/factsheet.pdf;jsessionid=2LHDDXRXRBIUDTQSNWIVAGWOCJWYOUP4. Retrieved 14 September 2011. 
  6. ^ http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2011/10/12/three-crown-center-restaurant-closings.html
  7. ^ "Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse". School of Engineering, University of Alabama. http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/faculty/ndelatte/case_studies_project/Hyatt%20Regency/hyatt.htm#Causes. Retrieved 14 September 2011. 

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