Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, have targeted the site of the Power & Light Building for a 1,000-room convention hotel. If the project gets the go ahead, a little environmental cleanup work will be required.
Decades ago, a powerhouse operated at the site. Later, Kansas City Power & Light removed an underground storage tank that had been used to fuel the vehicles in its fleet.
KCP&L enrolled a 0.7-acre section of the block into the Brownfields/Voluntary Cleanup Program in 2005, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
The DNR says a review revealed no damage requiring further investigation or cleanup in order to reuse the site. One boring had detected possible petroleum contamination. The DNR says the concentration, type of petroleum and depth did not pose a risk.
"However, to be safe KCP&L agreed to place a deed notice in the chain of title to inform any future owners potentially excavating the area surrounding that boring that the material may not be clean fill and should be properly handled if encountered," DNR spokeswoman Renee Bungart says in an e-mail.
The brownfield program issued a certification of completion in October 2005.
Ron Jury, the developer who proposed the Power & Light site, is aware of the property's environmental history. He says he's received an imprecise cost estimate of remaining cleanup, and it amounts to "hardly anything."
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Someone should call Ross Perot and ask why he pulled out of that location for a hotel about 20 years ago. Possibly he has a bit more insight (therefore explaining why he is rich)than the people talking about how this is going to do amazing things . . . Another hotel will only further dilute occupancy rates in an already dismal industry. Do they have any clue what operating expenses as well as debt service will run? Do they realize what average rate they would have to shoot for? I wonder how the occupancy is for the hotel at Briarcliff? I think that was a waste of money. The Hotel business has struggled - since the late 70's when big insurance conglomerates etc were no longer allowed to write them off as a tax loss.
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