NEW YORK HOTEL BUSINESS. has learned a Hilton will be coming to downtown Kansas City, KS.
The property reportedly is a $16.4 million, full-service, 150-room Hilton Garden Inn that will be operated by the Raphael Hotel Group.
Carol Marinovich, mayor and CEO of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, KS, noted as part of the government s rebuilding process in Kansas City, there “has been the implementation of a tax increment financing district,” in which “we had the groundbreaking for a Hilton hotel in our downtown area, which will be adjacent to our current [Jack] Reardon Civic Center”
The civic center, owned by the Unified Government, also is scheduled to receive “enhancements,” and provide banquet space to the Hilton Garden Inn. (5/15/01) Stefani C. O Connor