[1] The Kansas City Garment District Museum was founded and opened in 2002 by Ann Brownfield and Harvey Fried.

The park has a fountain and a 22-foot "Needle" sculpture as tribute to the Garment District's legacy.

The manufacture of coats, suits, dresses, hats, and children's wear started on the upper floors of the wholesale dry goods buildings in the early 1920s.

After World War I and through the 1940s, the area employed more than 4,000 people and boasted that one out of every seven women in the United States purchased a Kansas City-made garment.

Manufacturing of garments was the second largest employer of any industry in Kansas City, Missouri.