Leading site for convention hotel has a somewhat murky past

Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, have targeted the site of the Power & Light Building for a 1,000-room convention hotel. If the project gets the go ahead, a little environmental cleanup work will be required.

Decades ago, a powerhouse operated at the site. Later, Kansas City Power & Light removed an underground storage tank that had been used to fuel the vehicles in its fleet.

KCP&L enrolled a 0.7-acre section of the block into the Brownfields/Voluntary Cleanup Program in 2005, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.