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The hotel reopened three months after the tragedy. [8] In 1983, local authorities reported that the $5 million hotel reconstruction made the building "possibly the safest in the country." [16] The hotel was renamed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in 1987, and the Sheraton Kansas City at Crown Center in 2011. It has been renovated numerous times ...
On July 17, 1981, two suspended skywalks suddenly gave way during a lavish tea dance in the lobby of the new Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel at Crown Center. One hundred fourteen lives were lost ...
On July 17, 1981, two overhead walkways loaded with partygoers at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed. The concrete and glass platforms fell onto a tea dance in the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216. Investigations concluded the walkway would have failed under one-third the weight it held that night because of a ...
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Kansas City, Missouri: United States 17 July 1981: Double-deck suspended footbridge in hotel interior Erroneous redesign of supporting member during construction when original design considered too hard to construct 114 killed, 200 injured Walkway destroyed View of the lobby floor, showing remains of the ...
MILWAUKEE — The attorneys for the family of D'Vontaye Mitchell, who died in June after he was pinned down to the ground by hotel staff outside a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, announced Monday that ...
A compilation of photos reflecting D'Vontaye Mitchell's life is held up Monday during a press conference at the Hyatt Regency hotel, where he was pinned down by security guards and died last week.
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 ...
On July 17, 1981, Waeckerle had completed an eleven-hour shift in an emergency room, and was preparing for rugby season by running eleven flights of stairs at Baptist Medical Center [6] and was heading home when he received a telephone call from the Emergency Management Service dispatcher that "the roof had collapsed" at the Hyatt Regency hotel ...