OFFICIAL - Loews Convention Hotel (formerly Hyatt)

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Probably will be key activated access
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kcjak wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:48 pm I think I'd rather take an escalator to the lobby, then elevators to the rooms. Not to be all doom and gloom, but seems like anyone wandering around on the street could just slip in, take an elevator to floor X and wait around for an unsuspecting victim.
The fitness center is on floor 3. So you couldn't control access to hotel amnieies with separate elevators that way.

Key card required access like is already described would be the only way.
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Loews Kansas City Hotel announces hiring fair
Less than two months before its scheduled opening, the Loews Kansas City Hotel will host a three-day hiring event this week.

The 800-room hotel, which opens April 2 and will be connected to the Kansas City Convention Center, needs to fill approximately 350 jobs.

The hiring fair will take place from noon to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday in the Kansas City Convention Center lobby.
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https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/lo ... iring-fair
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Couple things

1) Doesn't appear the parking garage is getting any screening
2) The Truman and Baltimore corner is a real failed opportunity to make a signature landmark similar to the Intercon on the Plaza. Saw today the absolute tiniest monument sign ever on the corner.
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KCPowercat wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:21 pm Couple things

1) Doesn't appear the parking garage is getting any screening
2) The Truman and Baltimore corner is a real failed opportunity to make a signature landmark similar to the Intercon on the Plaza. Saw today the absolute tiniest monument sign ever on the corner.
The monument sign is hundreds of feet in the air for that corner.

When the building is occupied with the restaurants filled with people, visible inside at night and people are outside on the balcony no one will care what sign is at ground level.
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Okay
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I'll care, and I will hold a grudge forever.

It's still a massive blunder in an otherwise great project.
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The ground level is 100x worse than w&r and it gets no play.
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New Loews Key to Landing Events With Over 100K Attendees So Far
The new Loews Kansas City Convention Hotel scheduled to open April 2 already is beginning to pay off, playing a key role in landing conventions totaling more than 100,000 people over the next eight years.

At its recent Annual Tourism Outlook event, Visit KC reported this year alone, the new 800-room Loews was important in landing the National Baptist Convention in June with 20,000 delegates and the Shriner’s International meeting in July with 11,000 delegates.
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https://cityscenekc.com/new-loews-key-t ... es-so-far/
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nice to see business lining up even before it's open. This should help create a ripple effect to help the other new & established hotels in the downtown through Plaza area. This will lead to extra dollars into the local community and taxes revenue from simple sales taxes on purchases. Love to see this ripple grow into a wave
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Sidewalk is open on Wyandotte & Baltimore.
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I'm excited to see these sidewalks blocked every day!
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Also brackets are up so I'd imagine parking garage screening is up soon.
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Good sign on the brackets. Totally missed that today.

That ped bridge seems so low.
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dukuboy1 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:50 am nice to see business lining up even before it's open. This should help create a ripple effect to help the other new & established hotels in the downtown through Plaza area. This will lead to extra dollars into the local community and taxes revenue from simple sales taxes on purchases. Love to see this ripple grow into a wave
Well said, and so true!!!How many cities would have had a location so close to their Convention Center to build on, yet, it has taken so many years :?: .
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Video tour.

New Loews Hotel prepares to open in April

https://www.kmbc.com/article/new-loews- ... l/31123805
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I get it’s probably meant to feel comfortable and non-threatening in this way but god damn this whole hotel is antiseptic
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JBmidtown wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:12 am I get it’s probably meant to feel comfortable and non-threatening in this way but god damn this whole hotel is antiseptic
Have you stayed in a hotel before? Everything above a Travelodge is.
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Angry about cuts in Kansas City’s budget? Don’t blame the new convention hotel — yet
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Loews’ shortfall is worrisome. But the subsidies aren’t the reason for less-than-fully funded fare-free bus service, or the inability to pay for more police officers, or $500,000 in proposed cuts for Children’s Mercy Hospital.

Here’s the reality: Most of the money used to backstop the hotel’s shortfall will come from a dedicated tax that can only be used for convention-related expenses.
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Don’t be misled. Of that $4.4 million shortfall, Lucas said Monday, more than $2.6 million will actually come from the Convention and Sports Tourism fund, a dedicated bank account that gets most of its money from a restaurant tax.

The restaurant tax will bring in more than $27 million this year. It can only be spent on convention and tourism activities — not police, or fire or anything else.

Using $2.6 million for the hotel will mean cuts in other convention-related spending such as VisitKC and the arts, Lucas said. But that has nothing to do with the fare-free bus discussion or other general city spending for police and potholes.
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For now, though, cuts to health services, the bus service shortfall, and other spending priorities must be judged on their own terms. Blaming the new hotel is convenient, but it is not fair. Not yet.
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/edit ... 23006.html
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JBmidtown wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:12 am I get it’s probably meant to feel comfortable and non-threatening in this way but god damn this whole hotel is antiseptic
I’ll agree the building design could have been more bold or striking, especially with some of the original Hyatt renderings that we’re shown. But the inside looks great and on par with most other convention hotels in the US. Looking forward to this hotel being a catalyst for more visitors to our city. Generating more buzz, more investment, and more development to the surrounding downtown area
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dukuboy1 wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:22 am
JBmidtown wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:12 am I get it’s probably meant to feel comfortable and non-threatening in this way but god damn this whole hotel is antiseptic
Looking forward to this hotel being a catalyst for more visitors to our city. Generating more buzz, more investment, and more development to the surrounding downtown area
At avg 80% occupancy, avg 2.5 people per room across the year there could be 1600 people per night in this hotel.

If we figure an three turnovers for dinner that's filling the equivalent of 4-5 restaurants worth of space. The built in two will be busy and people will go elsewhere for options too.
If 20% ride the streetcar that's another 320 riders per day. Or a 5% increase. This one hotel could introduce public transit to a lot of people.
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Downtown hotel occupancy rarely hits 80% and with a bunch of rooms coming online this year, will be harder to hit. There will need to be a signification increase in events/conventions. If not, could be a challenge to stay above 60% and room rates could dive. The long term looks great but short term could be bumpy ride for all downtown hotels.

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