KANSAS CITY, Mo.
The Kansas City Marriott Downtown is undergoing a $9 million renovation of its ballrooms and meeting rooms in both the Marriott and Muehlebach Towers.
The renovation project focuses on enhancing benefits important to today's hotel guests, including modern aesthetics, flexible work and meeting spaces, accessibility and sustainability. It comes on the heels of the $20 million dollar renovation completed in 2013. That project included a new hotel entrance, a redesign for MetropolitanKC, now a completely new restaurant, and a reimagined lobby, named Barcentral, which offers an energetic space for an after-work cocktail or light fare, informal meetings and pre-concert gatherings.
"The vision we are carrying out is designed to create a more engaging user experience for the now generation traveler," says Cynthia Savage, director of marketing. "We are responding to their desire for sophisticated technology and enjoyable places to work, meet and connect. We believe this recently completed project will give us a competitive edge against convention hotels in other cities."
Innovative functional highlights of the facilities investment include digital meeting room and directional signage, PV solar panels that will generate 50,000 watts of green energy for the hotel and high-speed Internet access infrastructure.
The final phase of these renovations will be an innovative redesign of all 983 guest rooms located in the two hotel towers. With the completion of that phase, more than $30 million will have been invested since 2012 toward transforming the Marriott Kansas City Downtown. There will also be a centennial celebration honoring the hotel’s ancestor, the Hotel Muehlebach, which opened May 1915. Many events are scheduled throughout this year to celebrate, with the theme: Brilliant Past. Brilliant Future.
The hotel offers more than 93,000 square feet of diverse banquet and meeting space spread out through 42 different function rooms in two towers connected by an elevated walkway.
