The Kansas City Place project was originally proposed during the real estate boom of the 1980s.

The plan was developed by Frank Morgan and his uncle Sherman Dreiseszun who had earlier built Town Pavilion that was completed in 1986.

Morgan and Dreiseszun (operating as MD Management) would see some of their banks fail in the wake of the project in the Savings and loan crisis.

[6] At the four sides of its top, the building glows at night with red, white, and blue lights.

Great Plains Energy and subsidiary Kansas City Power & Light Co. have taken space in the building in 2009.