OFFICIAL - Loews Convention Hotel (formerly Hyatt)

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moderne wrote:Very tall columns being poured on site of former Hereford building. This will soon become very visible on the south, east, and west skyline.
Made an effort to visit the site yesterday. It's already a substantial building at a fraction the final height.
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Taken July 13, 2018.

Looking south from Baltimore just north of Truman Road.

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Looking north from Baltimore at 16th Street.

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Hope they raise the Nest cam. Now that the structure is going up the overall view of the site is blocked.
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moderne wrote:Hope they raise the Nest cam. Now that the structure is going up the overall view of the site is blocked.
Agree! Wish it was across the street though ( Baltimore) , think the view from there would be awesome. Maybe even P&L.
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There was an update during the council's Business Session today. Did anyone see it? Any new details?
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Not really. Everything on schedule.

Garage is pretty much done (up to floor four), currently finishing the lobby floor which has lots of details and uniqueness- so, after that they will start doing the regular floors and it will rise pretty quickly out of the ground- should be completing a floor every 11 days. Plan to top out by next spring. Open by spring 2020.
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The Cooper Carry site has a new rendering with an overhead view. First thought they had covered the freeway, but just shows large trees. This is going to refer much more in design to the ballroom than to KCPA.
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Moderne, link please? I'm not having any luck with the Cooper Carry site.
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Thanks.
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moderne wrote: Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:02 pm The Cooper Carry site has a new rendering with an overhead view. First thought they had covered the freeway, but just shows large trees. This is going to refer much more in design to the ballroom than to KCPA.
They tried to put their neighbor hotel in as a gray building and got it completely wrong and are missing Two Light entirely. They added a ton of trees that don't exist all over the image and put weird lines over US 71 and lights in the solid brick AT&T building and removed the Hotel President sign.

It's fine as a hotel rendering where the environment serves as window dressing. Definitely artistic license involved.
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The parking/meeting structure looks as tall as the hotel to the east, massive. How does the ballroom square footage compare to the Marriott, Sheraton, and Westin?
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moderne wrote: Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:07 pm The parking/meeting structure looks as tall as the hotel to the east, massive. How does the ballroom square footage compare to the Marriott, Sheraton, and Westin?
They are all around 15-17k ballrooms
http://www.cvent.com/rfp/kansas-city-mo ... a3417.aspx

Loews will be 27k
https://www.alhi.com/sites/default/file ... 5.2018.pdf
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KCPowercat wrote: Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:21 pm
moderne wrote: Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:07 pm The parking/meeting structure looks as tall as the hotel to the east, massive. How does the ballroom square footage compare to the Marriott, Sheraton, and Westin?
They are all around 15-17k ballrooms
http://www.cvent.com/rfp/kansas-city-mo ... a3417.aspx

Loews will be 27k
https://www.alhi.com/sites/default/file ... 5.2018.pdf
The Grand Ballroom in the Convention Center directly across the street goes up to 46400 square feet in comparison.
So an event could use both buildings and have 73k square feet available in two ballrooms

I picture Wyandotte being closed for conventions more often.

https://kcconvention.com/venue/grand-ballroom/

Municipal's Exhibition Hall is listed at 27k for comparison.
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flyingember wrote: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:19 am
I picture Wyandotte being closed for conventions more often.
Isn't that why the created the 'sky bridge' between the ballroom and hotel?!? Essentially limiting the need to close Wyandotte?
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Nest cameras appear to be down
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w00lyb00ger wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:13 pm Nest cameras appear to be down
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Well, this would have been amazing. I have never seen this or know what it was for, but someday downtown KC will get some really impressive or at least interesting new towers.

http://tillmandesign.com/living-icon/ds ... 8wdzc55ct7
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This is a student project from the Kansas City Design Center, a studio which is affiliated with KU and KSU's architecture schools. That model of the city is actually visible through their storefront on baltimore IIRC. I'd recommend looking in at it if it's still there
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That would have been a worthy neighbor of the KCPA.
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