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Crown Center
2450 Grand Boulevard ref: Crown Center: maps and directions ("Crown Center is located … at 2450 Grand Blvd.") (opens in a new tab) ref: Crown Center visitor information FAQs (customer service at 2450 Grand Blvd.) (opens in a new tab)
This place is inside the area that ordinance 260705 rezones for the ballpark district. What the ordinance does.
No announcement on the record.
Checked through . Where no announcement appears here, we found none by that date.
As of April 2026, asked directly what would happen to SEA LIFE, the LEGOLAND Discovery Center and Kaleidoscope, a Crown Center spokesperson said developers were still working on plans, so there were no specifics to share this early. ref: KSHB: Answering your questions about Royals ballpark plan at Crown Center (2026-04-23) — "no specifics to share this early" (opens in a new tab)
About the place
Crown Center was announced to the public in January 1967, redeveloping a blighted area next to Hallmark's headquarters. site: Crown Center: Crown Center History (opens in a new tab)
Its original master plan was created by Victor Gruen & Associates and later modified by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. site: Crown Center: Crown Center History (opens in a new tab)
Ground broke on the first phase of Crown Center on September 16, 1968. site: Crown Center: Crown Center History (opens in a new tab)
That first phase, completed in 1971, consisted of five interconnected seven-story office buildings totaling 660,000 square feet, plus an underground garage and a public square. site: Crown Center: Crown Center History (opens in a new tab)
The Crown Center Shops opened in 1973, followed by a residential community in 1976. site: Crown Center: Crown Center History (opens in a new tab)
Crown Center is the real estate development business of Hallmark and spans 85 acres surrounding Hallmark's world headquarters. site: Hallmark Corporate: Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. (opens in a new tab)
Crown Center has historically drawn about 5 million visitors a year. site: Hallmark Corporate: Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. (opens in a new tab)
Today Crown Center's office space totals roughly 2.2 million square feet, and its two hotels together have 1,457 rooms. site: Crown Center: Crown Center History (opens in a new tab)