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The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.
The efforts of the rescue crews were not in vain. 216 of the injured survived the collapse, but in the end, 114 people lost ...
Kansas City, Missouri, leaders are reviewing how dangerous-building policies broke down before a 68-year-old man died and ...
On a balmy Missouri evening in 1981, this was one of the hottest places to be. More than 1,500 revelers had gathered on the first floor of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency for a popular tea dance ...
Opinion What caused Kansas City Hyatt collapse? Reasons hold clues for Florida condo tragedy By Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times Updated October 26, 2021 1:14 PM READ MORE ...
Former Kansas City Mayor Richard L. “Dick” Berkley, who led Kansas City during the 1980s as the city’s first Jewish mayor and oversaw its response to the fatal Hyatt Regency walkway collapse ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Wednesday marks the 38th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Kansas City history – the Hyatt Skywalk disaster. More than 2,000 people were attending a tea dance at ...
Today we recognize the 40th anniversary of the Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse, the 114 lives lost, those injured, and all carrying painful memories. We also remember the heroism of Kansas City’s ...
Under a recent Kansas City policy imposing construction deadlines for incentive-receiving developments, the team behind a Hyatt House hotel in Quality Hill would have had to complete the long ...
Developed by Overland Park-based RHW Hotels Inc., the facility includes 127 guest rooms and the Lenexa Conference Center, which includes a 6,900-square-foot ballroom that can seat up to 400.
KANSAS CITY — A memorial was dedicated Thursday in Kansas City to the 114 people killed 34 years ago in one of the nation’s worst structural disasters. Etched upon the 24-foot sculpture are ...