KANSAS CITY, Mo.
Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center and The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center have announced the completion of a two-year $22 million renovation of both hotels including significant upgrades to Sheraton's guest rooms and improvements to both Sheraton and Westin's meeting rooms and lobbies.
The hotel complex now offers a total of 1,454 guestrooms featuring Kansas City skyline views and 150,000 square feet of meeting space. The renovation to Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center is part of an ongoing effort to enhance Sheraton hotels across the globe, following the recently completed $6 billion brand-wide revitalization including $400 million in signature brand initiatives.
The Starwood-hotel branded complex now boasts 52 meeting rooms, 30 parlors, 21 breakout rooms with more than 1,000 square feet of space and 19 breakout rooms with 500 square feet of space. Two ballrooms with 17,487 square feet and 16,089 square feet each (both seating up to 2,000 people), and a third at 5,000 square feet as well as direct connection to the Crown Center Exhibition Hall, providing access to an additional 45,500 square feet, rounds-out the hotels' event space.
In fact, the complex has the largest hotel ballroom in Kansas City and is the only hotel attached to its own exhibit hall. The versatile meeting spaces give Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center and The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center the capacity to accommodate events of any size.
The center of the Sheraton's renovated atrium-style lobby, now boasting signature amenities such as Link@Sheraton experienced with Microsoft lounge where guests can enjoy complimentary Wi-Fi and printing is a copy of the original Rick Neblurg Ball Sculpture Chandelier. Shimmering above the lobby, the chandelier shines with more than 2,000 aluminum-plated Polypropylene silver balls connected by 361 chains, each measuring 34 feet long.
Adding to benefits for groups is the hotels' convenient location in the heart of Hallmark's Crown Center district. Guests can use "The Link," a climate-controlled, glass-enclosed skywalk to access the famed Crown Center Shopping Center home to more than 60 shops, restaurants, live theaters, ice skating in the winter and the international headquarters of Hallmark Cards Inc. Restaurant options include The Brasserie, Spectators Bar & Grill and the Terrace as well as Crown Center favorites - the kid-friendly The Crayola Cafe, the fine dining American Restaurant, and Milanos offering Italian fare.
Guests can also use "The Link" to access nearby Kansas City must-sees like Union Station, the Liberty Memorial, Legoland Discovery Center or Sea Life Aquarium. Complimentary transportation will also takes guests of both hotels to the popular Power and Light entertainment district.
