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 ...

Memorial to 1981 Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk disaster finally a reality By Matt Campbell. Updated July 17, 2021 2:13 PM.

At the chic new Hyatt Regency Hotel, two 32-ton, glass-and-concrete skywalks collapsed during a posh weekly tea dance that attracted some 2,000 people. Gale Baldwin, then city editor, oversaw the ...

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 ...

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.

The condo building failure in Surfside, Fla., is reminiscent of the July 17, 1981, collapse of two elevated walkways at the Kansas City, Mo., Hyatt Regency that killed 114 people and injured over 200.

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.

KANSAS CITY — A memorial was dedicated Thursday ... Etched upon the 24-foot sculpture are the names of the victims of the skywalk collapse at Kansas City’s former Hyatt Regency Hotel, The ...

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.

That day, Mariachi Estrella was set to play at the new Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The hotel was hosting a tea dance event that night, and the party was packed — more than ...