Developments in Kansas City's Country Club Plaza

The curated articles all focus on developments at Kansas City's Country Club Plaza. They describe the transformation through new openings, conceptual plans, and strategic changes. One article reports the opening of a rooftop bar called Momentum at the Cascade Hotel, with semi-private club membership options. The venue offers cocktails like the Bird’s Eye View and food items like wagyu beef tenderloin. Another article covers the City Council's decision to allow a 20-story building on the Plaza's western edge, relaxing prior height restrictions. The move aims to boost the long-standing shopping area with more potential projects.

Additionally, an Italian restaurant named Vertice Italian is set to open at 616 Ward Parkway. Summit Hospitality plans to offer handmade pasta and wood-fired pizza in this venture. Finally, the Plaza's new owners have submitted a Master Development Plan, suggesting taller buildings and diverse future uses for the area.

Momentum is opening above Cascade Hotel.

NO. 1: NEW ROOFTOP BAR COMING TO KC’S COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA. FOOD HALL OPENING BELOW

Ten floors above Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, a new rooftop bar is waiting to take flight. | Published August 19, 2025 | Read Full Story by Jenna Thompson

A rendering looking west on the Country Club Plaza toward where a Nordstrom store had been promised before the company pulled out. It shows a retail and office tower standing approximately 20 stories tall.

NO. 2: KC TO ALLOW 20-STORY BUILDING ON COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA. MAYOR WEIGHS IN

For three years, the western edge of the Country Club Plaza has sat barren and unused, becoming what Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas once called a three-acre “hole” or “pit.” On Thursday, in a unanimous vote, the Kansas City City Council voted to do away with the 130-foot height restriction on the parcel where a new Nordstrom department store had once been planned, before the company backed out in 2022. | Published September 12, 2025 | Read Full Story by Eric Adler

Vertice Italian is coming to KC’s Country Club Plaza.

NO. 3: A NEW ITALIAN RESTAURANT IS COMING TO KANSAS CITY’S COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA

Summit Hospitality — the group behind Summit Grill, Third Street Social and other local concepts — is launching a new Italian restaurant on the Country Club Plaza. | Published September 17, 2025 | Read Full Story by Jenna Thompson

The Dallas-based Gillon Property Group, owners of the Country Club Plaza, submitted a Master Development Plan Wednesday to Kansas City regarding the district’s possible future. It includes the possibility of buildings as tall as 150-feet to 200-feet. By Tammy Ljungblad

NO. 4: COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA OWNERS REVEAL PLAN FOR TALLER BUILDINGS. SEE THE DETAILS

The owners of the Country Club Plaza, looking to revitalize the Spanish-style shopping district that for 102 years has been considered one of the city’s jewel attractions, both surprised and pleased Kansas Citians in September when it proposed allowing a 275-foot office on the Plaza’s western edge in an empty three-acre lot where a Nordstrom’s department store had been planned and abandoned. | Published October 22, 2025 | Read Full Story by Eric Adler

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