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Title: Aladdin Hotel Comeback Set
Description: The Aladdin Hotel located at 1215 Wyandotte in downtown Kansas City is set to open again on May 4, 2007. "The event will mark the 193-room, 16-story tower's second go-round as a Holiday Inn franchise after two stints as Embassy on the Park, a stretch under the Days Inn flag, and most recently as the independent Citi Centre Plaza Hotel when it was last closed in February 2004." The hotel opened in 1925 and the exterior and lobby have been restored to that time period including its polished marble pillars, checkerboard marble floor and brass railings. The historic Zebra Room will be open and the hotel offers 3,000 square feet of top floor ballroom and meeting space.
Date: 2007-04-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Old Aladdin Makes a Wish: TIF For Rehab
Description: The 80-year-old Aladdin Hotel located at 1215 Wyandotte is to be remodeled and opened in early 2007. The hotel known as the Citi Centre Plaza has been closed since February 2004. Wright Investment Properties Inc. is going before the TIF Commission at their Dec. 14, 2005, meeting to try and get a subsidy for $4.65 million or about one third of the $15 million cost. The hotel has 195 rooms and hopes to affiliate with Holiday Inn and be a "midservice, midscale" hotel, cheaper than the downtown Marriott and the Hilton.
Date: 2005-12-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Little Hotels, Big Problem
Description: Review of the lack of more than 2,000 hotel rooms within walking distance of the convention center, thus limiting the number of covention Kansas City can host. Some say that the smaller hotels around Barney Allis Plaza, like the Hotel Phillips, Aladdin, Hilton President, grab a vital market share but are too small to help the convention market grow. Article includes a comparison chart with other US cities and a map with downtown area hotels.
Date: 2007-07-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A New Stripe
Description: Review of the Zebra Room restaurant at the Aladdin Hotel, 1215 Wyandotte. The original Zebra Room dates back to the 1920s and was a popular nightspot. The refurbished Aladdin Hotel reopened in May 2007 after being closed the last three years. It was previously a Holiday Inn.
Date: 2007-08-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: KC Preservation Prizes
Description: Historic Kansas City Foundation selected the newly reopened Aladdin Hotel and the former Blossom House & Girls Club for the annual renovation/rehabilitation awards. Also included were the Christian Church Hospital converted to residences at 2625 W. Paseo Blvd; the Longview Farm Elementary School from a former horse stable built in 1915, and other properties like the Old Fire Station No. 9 (1910) 2 S. 14th St., Kansas City, Kan.; TWA headquarters (1956) building at 1735 Main St. now the home of Barkley advertising.
Date: 2007-06-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Obituaries: Phillip T. Drotts
Description: Designed mainly church units, including Nazarene Theological Seminary at 1700 Meyer Boulevard, the Nazarene Publishing House, Hotel Aladdin, and Hotel LaSalle.
Date: 1960-05-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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