800-room KC convention hotel has less-than-grand opening

Loews Kansas City Hotel, Kansas City’s new convention hotel opens its doors on Monday. And while hotel officials said they were excited about the opening of the 800-room hotel, they admitted that it wouldn’t go the way they once planned. “… Given what has transpired over the past several weeks, our opening is going to look a little different than we originally anticipated,” Lowes Hotels & Co. Chairman and CEO Jonathan Tisch said in a release. “However, at Loews Hotels we not only believe…