Talk:One Kansas City Place

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This page is very unorganized and I propose basically redoing the entire page. The tenants are unaccurate and the text structure is not right. You can see visible glitches in the text and there is no picture. This page does not represent the One Kansas City Place nicely.

Bank of America
Bank of America contains nothing in this building more than a large location in the lower lobby (nobody ever said anything about an ATM; it said "large location"). It is NOT "one of the largest tenants." The largest tenant USED to be Shook, Hardy & Bacon, but it moved to its own building at 2555 Grand. Bryan Cave (a law firm) and Ernst & Young (an accounting firm) are probably the two largest tenants now. 65.28.2.218 12:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Don't change information on a page unless you can cite your source on the edit... I have spoken with people who work there, and emporis also states it is the largest tenant: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=121883 Cite a reliable source when you change information. KCMODevin 16:00, 24 August 2006

Sir, I work in the Town Pavilion and am VERY familiar with the tenants and layout of 1KCPl. Bank of America has no other location there besides its large branch in the lower lobby, whereas Bryan Cave and Ernst & Young occupy multiple floors in the tower. Seeing as NO sources are cited in the article whatsoever, I committed no foul. Emporis makes no mention of these multiple-floored tenants, and therefore Emporis is wrong. Have you ever been to 1KCPl? It's one thing to cite a website, it's another to be there and see for yourself. I have changed the article accordingly. Jeez... 65.28.2.218 01:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes I have been to 1KCP, however, you cannot use your own research or observations on Wikipedia, it must be backed up by sources. I don't doubt that you are wrong, but it cannot be changed unless you have sources for your information. I'm sorry, but that is one of the rules here, no personal research. I have done a lot of personal research on Downtown and buildings in my past, however, I cannot add that information to Wikipedia since there are no official sources. KCMODevin 6:38, 25 August 2006
 * Excuse me, KCMODevin, I know Wikipedia's rules very well, I've been here a lot longer than you... one of its fundamental principles is the search for truth. I'm not going to allow you to supplant my correct information with your incorrect information. The Emporis page has very, very little about the building. Nothing else on this article is cited, so what does it matter? If we went by your rationale, the entire article would have to be deleted. Just go there and look for yourself. Would you like me to take a picture of the 1KCPl video directory? I live and work downtown, and know plenty about all this. The building's largest tenants are Bryan Cave (one of the 50 largest law firms in the US, based out of St. Louis) and Ernst & Young (an accounting firm). Both occupy multiple floors in the tower. Bank of America has a large branch in the building's lower lobby, and that's it. I have changed the article back accordingly. Some people... 65.28.2.218 12:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Little dispute that's broken out
Hello there, KCMODevin and 65.28.2.218. I'd like to handle this dispute before it spirals out of control. Based on what I read, it looks like someone wants to add in information, but the other party wants it reverted because it's unsourced. Yes, Wikipedia indeed wants entirely correct information. That's why every article must be equipped with reliable sources. By the way, original research is not allowed, 65.28.2.218, which means that any information you come up with for the article has to be sourced by something that has been published. —   03:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Then I vote that either the article be deleted, because NONE of the information in it is cited to sources, or that section about "largest tenant" should be removed. One or the other. 65.28.2.218 17:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, the two external links at the bottom qualify as sources; they justify the material in the article. In addition to typical statistics, Emporis says Bank of America is the largest tenant. SkyscraperPage also lists Bank of America as a tenant. —   17:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, then Emporis and SkyscraperPage are clearly incorrect. As well, much of the other information in the article is completely uncited, and those two pages do NOT refer to the information. The information about the Kansas City Place development is not included in those pages. The information about the building's records is not in those pages. The information about the building's location is not in those pages. The information about the Power & Light District is not in those pages. The information about the lights is not in those pages. The information about the First National Center is not in those pages. The information about the Town Pavilion and One Metropolitan Square is not in those pages. Therefore, the VAST majority of this article is uncited. Under your rubric, it all ought to be deleted. Clearly, there is a problem with your approach. The article - like SO many articles on Wikipedia - relies much on personal knowledge. I simply added to that. Bank of America maintains a large branch office in the lower lobby of 1KCPl. Bryan Cave and Ernst & Young maintain multiple-floor offices. They are clearly larger tenants. Just because no one thought to make a website called "tenant floorspace in One Kansas City Place" does not mean that the material should not be here. Instead, KCMODevin seems to desire only HIS version of the article be here (including VAST, VAST amounts of uncited information that is not referenced in Emporis or SkyscraperPage). I know this all seems trivial and silly, but it stemmed from a very benign and simple edit that KCMODevin insisted on reverting, clearly under a faulty approach, as I have demonstrated.  Let the article be!! 65.28.2.218 18:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If you feel the source is wrong, be prepared to fight sources with sources &mdash; if you can get more sources saying that the largest tenant is not Bank of America, then you can allow the article to be protected. In the meantime, I'll be requesting page protection until we can agree on what is. —   18:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, they were on Emporis, however that was well before the dummies at Emporis began requiring that you pay for more information on a building. (you were given special abilities/permissions before, then they began censoring information to make ppl pay to see it) A lot of the news articles of the time that reference some of the information aren't online or would require that you pay to see it. Take note that I didn't completely create the One Kansas City Place article, a lot of it was copy/paste from SSP and Emporis. Also, take a look at SkyscraperPage, it's information on 1KCP is very large. But like I said, I didn't write a lot of the article, as it was a lot of copy/paste from those two sites. The worst thing would be to remove the article, and it would be unnecessary to do so. I particularly don't have the time to find even more sources, but I could do so over time, it would just take a while. (as school and my life comes first)KCMODevin 13:57, 27 August 2006


 * Additionally, a couple sites reference the local BoA main branch as being in suite 1400 of One Kansas City Place.
 * ThinkKC
 * First National Bank History
 * The only real question is how large is the BofA regional hq inside 1KCP? KCMODevin 14:28, 27 August 2006

Stories - Request for Content
So, just how many stories does this building have, anyways? --Reverend Loki 17:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

42 floors officially. --KCMODevin 18:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Merger proposed (Kansas City Place)
The result was: Merge Kansas City Place into One Kansas City Place, by silent consensus. --B. Wolterding 16:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

I propose to merge the content of Kansas City Place into here, since the notability of that article has been questioned. The article does not cite any independent sources about this uncompleted project, so its notability is indeed questionable. But it might well fit in here in a "history" section.

Please add your comments below. Proposed as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding 18:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

How to fix the edits to the page?
Ok... How do we revert this page back to original name of One Kansas City Place? Someone came in claiming it was named One, Kansas City Place with a comma. However NO sources, not the CTBUH, Emporis, SkyscraperPage, or AIA etc... Say the building is One, Kansas City Place rather than One Kansas City Place. Also, I've seen dozens of newspaper articles from when the building was constructed, and all list it as One Kansas City Place without a comma. So how do we revert this edit to the main title of the page? --KCMODevin 13:16, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Moved from One, Kansas City Place
Seemingly for the entire length of this article it has had a comma in the entry. All the links have always gone to One Kansas City Place. I moved it to its proper location. Americasroof (talk) 02:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, Bahua decided he wanted to add a comma to the name of the building all over the article. Yet he had no support for it. I also had to revert some of his other edits. --KCMODevin (talk) 07:57, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

2nd tallest building between Minneapolis and Denver
I suggest that reference to this building being the second tallest between Minneapolis and Denver Be removed as Kansas City is not between Minneapolis and Denver. Namely, Kansas City is further south then Denver, and a straight line drawn between Denver and Minneapolis would not come within 150 miles of KC. (262 actually) Further, if one is going simply with the definition that KC is between Minn and Denver with those cities as the east and west border respectively, then one should also consider the buildings in the cities of Texas. Therefore, I would consider that only buildings meeting the definition of being within a box with Minneapolis to be the northeast corner and Denver to be the southwest corner be considered. 65.167.146.130 (talk) 16:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)