In 2018, a team of Colorado developers declared their intention to build a 13-story Hyatt House hotel on a former parking lot at 900 Broadway Blvd. in downtown Kansas City.
Seven years later, the property sits flat and abandoned, cordoned off with orange barricades and dotted with construction piers that poke out of the concrete base like steel weeds. Lodging is unavailable. But litigation has been abundant.
Earlier this month, one lawsuit related to this failed project came to a conclusion when a Jackson County jury awarded the Colorado developers $18 million against a local attorney and a St. Louis-based firm over the project’s construction loan…