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Overland Park, Kansas offers meeting planners and their attendees a blend of metropolitan amenities and suburban hospitality, in addition to easy access into the entire Kansas City metro. Our 34 hotels cater to every budget and offer more than 5,200 rooms along with myriad meeting and convention spaces. The Overland Park Convention Center offers 237,000 square feet of meeting space that can accommodate groups of any size and is adjacent to the 412-room Sheraton Overland Park Hotel.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Calls
By CAROLYN BLACKBURN
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While the term “airport hotel” has long conjured up images of a generic, chain-operated property with no sense of place or individual style, that is changing. In fact, some airport hotels are offering amenities and even hip personas that rival those in downtown locations.
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KANSAS CITY, MO.
Kansas City has been enjoying a $9 billion renaissance, with $5 billion of that happening in the downtown convention district, according to Denise DeJulio, executive director of convention sales at the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association..
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Happenings – Kansas City Area
KANSAS CITY, MO.
- Kansas City’s historic Gate City National Bank building is being revamped as the home of the new Ambassador Hotel Kansas City (www.ambassadorhc.com), scheduled to open in June 2012. The company has budgeted $11 million to transform the six-story neoclassical structure into a 43-room luxury boutique property with two executive meeting rooms, a boardroom with seating for 16 and a banquet room that will accommodate 100 for receptions and 50 for dinner.
- Effective Jan. 1, the 40-story Hyatt Regency Crown Center will be rebranded the Sheraton Crown Center (816.841.1000; sheratonhotels.com). Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide will now manage the Sheraton property as well as its sister property in the complex, the Westin Crown Center. During the next three years, Crown Center and Starwood will invest more than $18 million in the two hotels. The Sheraton will receive a significant upgrade, including a new front drive, overall lobby improvements and the brand’s signature guest experiences. At The Westin, the entrance and lobby areas will be updated, along with improvements to the Century Ballroom and public restrooms.
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| Gift Box
By CAROLYN BLACKBURN
Kansas City area CVB representatives agree that barbecue sauce is a perfect take-home gift for delegates, and there are several other options that make for terrific group mementos. Following are a few ideas.
Kansas City, Mo., is known as the “Barbecue Capital of the World,” so barbecue sauce is a particularly apropos gift option for groups convening here. According to the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association, the following purveyors offer small bottles that are regulation size for flying home.
Gates Bar-B-Q (800.662.7427; www.gatesbbq.com), Arthur Bryant’s BBQ (816.231.1123; www.arthurbryantsbbq.com) and Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue (816.942.9141; www.jackstackbbq.com), which has locations in Kansas City, Mo., and Overland Park, Kan., all have a variety of barbecue sauces and rubs to choose from.
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