Kansas City Office Building Prepares for Power & Light District

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 5, 2007 -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Power & Light District is driving a downtown makeover. City Center Square, a 650,000 square foot Class A office building, started preparing for the opening of the Sprint Center Arena and Kansas City Live more than a year ago. (Request a tour: smoore@winbury.com)

Phillip Gesue, director of acquisitions and development for Time Equities Inc., the company that owns City Center Square, said a new parking garage and expanded services for tenants such as a full service fitness center, yoga, Starbucks, improved food court and valet parking was critical to the downtown redevelopment. "City Center Square has always played a vital role in downtown Kansas City. The high-rise office building is literally at the center of the city at Main and 12th street," Gesue said. "The rehabilitation of this magnificent building and the construction of a new parking garage to accommodate the modern parking demand have been critical in preparing the building for large additions such as the Power and Light District and the needs of modern office tenants."
(Watch video of Phillip Gesue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwDKV1EpDJ4 )

Time Equities has focused on the architectural design of City Center Square's improvements and so wanted to make a big splash with its construction of a new parking garage. Time Equities selected Rees Masilionis Turley Architecture, a Kansas City firm, to design the six-level parking garage. Matt Masilionis, principal architect, said infusing design with the limited space was the biggest challenge for their team. "Kenny Miller, our project designer/architect, did a tremendous job balancing the limited space in this tight urban site (the Old Italian Gardens restaurant) while creating a futuristic looking 'urban infill' parking structure that is fun, seamless with the streetscape, and a contemporary, timeless statement for Kansas City," said Masilionis.

City Center Square's once dated food court has been modernized with a lounge like feel created by HNTB architecture. Bright modern colors and a patchwork carpet were custom designed for the building. The renovated food court is also home to downtown's only Jason's Deli along with food favorites such as Starbucks, Antonio's Pizza, Bumblefish, Smokin' Joe's and Subway.

For working professionals seeking a healthy lifestyle, a 3,800 square foot state of the art fitness center was created in City Center Square. This space offers tenants weekly access to yoga and pilates classes as well as full service changing rooms equipped with showers, towels and lockers so they can work out any time of day.

"Real estate is not exclusively about amenities, it's about location, location, location -- something City Center Square has in spades," said Gesue.

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