Every year, July 17 is a mournful day in Kansas City. That is the day the skywalks collapsed in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The structural failure led to the deaths of 114 people, many ...

Hyatt had been the brand for the $311 million hotel project since it was first announced publicly in May 2015.Hyatt, which has been out of Kansas City since the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel as ...

The Kansas City Star reports that about 100 people gathered at the Skywalk Memorial Plaza to remember the 114 people killed when disaster struck the Hyatt Regency Hotel on July 17, 1981.

More than 1,500 revelers had gathered on the first floor of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency for a popular tea dance party hosted by the swanky 1-year-old hotel.

The Hyatt Regency Kansas City will be reflagged as a Sheraton on Jan. 1, following a $13 million renovation of the 733-room hotel. The hotel has been a Hyatt Regency since it opened in 1980.

The collapse occurred July 17, 1981, during a dance that drew about 1,500 people to the hotel. Shortly after 7 p.m., the fourth-floor skywalk gave way, falling on a second-floor skywalk.

Until the events of 9/11, the skywalk collapse at the former Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Mo., was the most devastating structural failure ever in the U.S. in terms of loss of life and ...

Hyatt Hotels Corp. won’t donate to The Skywalk Memorial Foundation Inc., a nonprofit planning to commemorate the 1981 disaster in Kansas City that took 114 lives.

Wednesday marks the 38th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Kansas City history – the Hyatt Skywalk disaster. More than 2,000 people were attending a tea dance at the Hyatt Regency ...

The city, citing the flagship downtown hotel's necessity to redevelopment and tourism, bought the hotel for $18.3 million in 2001 after its private owners foundered. Kansas City Business Journal ...

TODAY MARKS A DARK DAY IN KANSAS CITY HISTORY. 43 YEARS AGO, TWO SKYWALKS COLLAPSED INSIDE THE HYATT REGENCY HOTEL AT CROWN CENTER, AND IT HAPPENED AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE ...

July 17, 1981, is among the most tragic days Kansas City has ever seen. That's when two overhead skywalks in the Hyatt Regency Hotel lobby collapsed during a party with over 1,500 attendants.