Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Kansas City Power and Light Building (also called the KCP&L Building and the Power and Light Building) is a landmark skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. It was constructed by Kansas City Power and Light President and Edison Pioneer, Joseph F. Porter [6] [7] [8] in 1931 as a way to promote new jobs in Downtown Kansas City.
The art deco Kansas City Power and Light Building was the former headquarters of the company and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi until 1942, tallest in Missouri until 1976 and tallest in Kansas City until 1986 and is the namesake of the downtown Kansas City Power & Light District Barack Obama in front a KCP&L truck on July 8, 2010, at the Smith Electric Vehicles plant at ...
The interior of the Kansas City Live! block of the Power & Light District features the stage. At the center of the Power & Light District is Kansas City Live!, a one block area devoted to live music and entertainment venues. It hosted American Idol in 2008, [8] [9] [10] and many professional sports viewing parties for years. [11]
City Center Square, joined the ranks of Kansas City’s tallest structures, including the Kansas City Power & Light Building. The City Center Square opened in 1977 in downtown Kansas City.
The KC Live! Block hosted a daylong celebration at the Red Kingdom Block Party starting at 11 a.m. It featured giveaways, photo opportunities and two stages with LED screens to watch the game.
Batting cages are found both indoors and outdoors. The interior floor of a batting cage may be sloped, to automatically feed the baseballs back into the automatic pitching machine. The automatic pitching machines using sloped floors usually pitch out a synthetic baseball or softball, rather than an official solid core leather hardball.
The district hosts roughly 1,000 residential units, including the luxury One Light, Two Light and Three Light apartment towers. (One-bedrooms at Three Light run from $1,774 to $3,849.) (One ...
Great Plains Energy Incorporated was a holding company based in Kansas City, Missouri that owned electric utility Kansas City Power and Light Company and Strategic Energy, LLC, an energy management company. KCP&L established the holding company on October 1, 2001. [citation needed] Great Plains acquired Aquila, Inc. in July, 2008. [2]