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The Hyatt had been built just a few years before, during a nationwide pattern of fast-tracked large construction with reduced oversight and major failures. Its roof had partially collapsed during construction, and the ill-conceived skywalk design progressively degraded due to a miscommunication loop of corporate neglect and irresponsibility.
The hotel went through a $5 million reconstruction following the collapse, replacing the skywalks with one large second floor balcony supported by massive pillars, with local authorities saying in 1983 that the building was now "possibly the safest in the country." [6] The hotel was renamed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in 1987.
Design change on the Hyatt Regency walkways. On 17 July 1981, two suspended walkways through the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed, killing 114 and injuring more than 200 people [41] at a tea dance. The collapse was due to a late change in design, altering the method in which the rods supporting the walkways were ...
July 17, 1981: The second- and fourth-story walkways inside the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Mo., collapsed onto the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 200. Around 1,600 people were in the ...
Berkley was the city’s first Jewish mayor and its last Republican mayor. His tenure was marked by the 1981 collapse of the Hyatt Regency walkway.
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse; M. Matla Power Station This page was last edited on 20 November 2024, at 20:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
1,500 people gather for a dance in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City. The second and 4th floor skywalks , hung from steel rods, fail. They collapse and crush 114 people to death.
The newest addition to the complex was the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where on July 17, 1981, the building's walkway collapsed during a tea dance, which had been set up to bring back the magic of Kansas City jazz. The collapse killed 114 people, making it the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history at the time, and injured more than 200 others.