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Huge Stowers Institute to Open Soon

KANSAS CITY, MO-The 600,000-sf building, which cost $200 million to construct, retains part of the historic Menorah Hospital.

By Judie Burkhalter | Updated on October 25, 2000

KANSAS CITY, MO-In a few short weeks, administrative personnel will start moving intothe grand Stowers Institute for Medical Research, being built a coupleof blocks east of the Country Club Plaza. The Stowers Institute, at 600,000-sf and at a cost of $200 million,is one of the largest projects to be built near the Plaza.

The twin towers of American Century Financial, theinstitution started by Jim Stowers, are two other impressive buildingsthat he has developed near the Plaza.The Stowers Institute sits on a 10-acre site that formerly was the homeof Menorah Hospital. Rather than raze the hospital, Stowers hired RickFortner, project superintendent for J.E. Dunn Construction the generalcontractor, to work with the existing framework.

“We researched this quite extensively and we proved to Mr. Stowersthat it would be cheaper to take it to the ground and come back,”Fortner says. “But he made the decision that, for historical reasonsand for Kansas City, he was going to leave part of Menorah Hospital forsentimental reasons.”

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