Kansas City is poised to re-illuminate an iconic Midtown landmark.
The City Council’s finance committee forwarded a licensing agreement with Gray Local Media on Tuesday that would allow the city to install and use lighting equipment on the 1,024-foot KCTV Broadcast Tower on East 31st Street.
Once bathed in the glow of over 1,000 lights, the tower would be the first city landmark to be re-lit under the city’s Illuminate KC initiative: red for the Chiefs, teal for the KC Current, and other colors to reflect various sentiments.
The tower stopped glowing roughly 20 years ago, owing to rising maintenance costs and difficult logistics. With Illuminate KC, the city hopes to “shine a light” on Kansas City’s landmarks and historic buildings, Phinney Sachs of the mayor’s office said Tuesday…