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Title: New Owner Takes Over Downtown Properties
Description: Article tells of purchase of City Center Square and the old Jones Store downtown by a New York developer, Time Equities, Inc., and possible plans for the buildings. Time Equities also recently purchased the Pinnacle apartment building at 600 E. Eighth St. and plans to purchase the nearby University Tower apartments.
Date: 2003-12-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Skywalks Would Stifle Efforts to Enliven Downtown
Description: Article stating opinion that the proposed skywalk between a planned parking garage from what used to the Italian Gardens restaurant to City Center Square is not needed. Includes a photo of proposed skywalk.
Date: 2005-07-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Parking Plan Advances
Description: Article discusses a plan to demolish the vacant Italian Gardens restaurant and build a parking garage to supplement parking for City Center Square offices.
Date: 2005-06-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Downtown Skyline
Description: View looking northwest, taken from 13th and McGee area. Tall buildings (left to right) are: One Kansas City Place, City Center Square, and Walnut Office Building (1201 Walnut).
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Downtown Aerial View
Description: Aerial view of the downtown Kansas City. The image is framed by Charlotte Street on the left hand side, the Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks at the top, Wyandotte Street on the right hand side, and 6th Street and the Downtown Loop at the bottom. Several prominent downtown buildings are in view.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: View of the Peck's Dry Goods Store Building at 11th and Main Streets
Description: View facing north along Main Street from just south of its intersection with 11th Street. The Peck's Dry Goods Store Building on the northwest corner of the intersection can be seen. The northeast extent of City Center Square can be seen on the left hand side of the image. A portion of the Macy's department store building can be seen on the right hand side of the image. Pedestrians, cars and a truck can be seen traveling along Main Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Normandy Apartments and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Description: View looking southeast along 11th Street from just west of its intersection with Washington Street. The Normandy Apartments Building is in view on the right hand side of the image. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception can be seen on the left. A sign for the La Homa Hotel can be seen. City Center Square can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City Center Square
Description: Aerial photograph of the City Center Square building at 1100 Main Street in downtown Kansas City. It was built in 1977 by the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It occupies the entire block of 11th Street to 12th Street, and from Main Street to Baltimore Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meanwhile. ..Back Downtown
Description: Article about rejuvenating Downtown Kansas City with some development examples, suggesting but not naming City Center Square.
Date: 1973-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Tower Sold, To be Upgraded
Description: Article announces the sale of the City Center Square office tower in downtown Kansas City to a group of investors. Representatives of the new owners discuss buying the building from Time Equities as well as their plans for upgrades.
Date: 2012-11-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Biggest Burglary of 1978
Description: News of the attempt by City Center Square owners to bypass paying city taxes.
Date: 1978-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Sitting Pretty
Description: Photo (of Tierney's office view from the 17th floor of the City Center Square building at 12th and Main Streets) and biographical article about Thomas Tierney, or Tom Tierney, head of the law firm of Tierney, Pierce & Ernst, "general counsel for the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City, Mo.--the city's urban renewal agency." Discussion of Tierney's life and career (born in Independence in 1938) and of the history of urban renewal in Kansas City since the 1950s featuring the example of City Center Square.
Date: 1980-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A City in a Square: The Story of K.C.'s Newest Downtown Development
Description: Article about the new City Center Square building at 1100 Main Street, called a "vertical suburban shopping center," designed to help revitalize Downtown.
Date: 1978-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Piecing Together City Center Square
Description: Article "tracking the controversial history of a major downtown development," City Center Square.
Date: 1978-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Downtown Kansas City Alive and Recovering
Description: Article about the new City Center Square and its potential part in rejuvenating Downtown as a retail center.
Date: 1976-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

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