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The Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center is a 504.0 ft (153.62 m), 45-story hotel located in the Crown Center complex in Kansas City, Missouri. It was Missouri's tallest building from 1980 to 1986. It is now the state's sixth-tallest building and Kansas City's third-tallest building.
The Kansas City Star described the national climate of the late 1970s as "high unemployment, inflation and double-digit interest rates [that added] pressure on builders to win contracts and complete projects swiftly". [3] Described by the newspaper as fast-tracked, construction began in May 1978 on the 40-story Hyatt Regency Kansas City.
In addition to the Westin, the Crown Center complex includes the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, opened July 1, 1980 as the Hyatt Regency Kansas City. The roof had collapsed during construction, and then the hotel suffered the walkway collapse on July 17, 1981, killing 114 people in the deadliest non‑deliberate structural failure ...
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. Dick Berkley, Kansas City’s longest-serving ...
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Spinnaker, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, Massachusetts (closed in 2004) Michigan. Summit, Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan (closed in 2017) Minnesota. Harbor 360, Radisson Hotel Duluth Harborview, Duluth [21] Missouri. Skies Restaurant & Lounge, Hyatt Regency Crown Center, Kansas City (closed December 1, 2011, when Sheraton Hotels took over ...
Joseph F. Waeckerle is an American physician specializing in emergency and sports medicine. He directed the search and rescue efforts at the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 17, 1981.
Location: 600 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas. Year founded: 1934 Best known for : Combo sandwiches (choice of two meats: ham, turkey, sliced or pulled pork, burnt ends, sausage, pulled ...