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Hallmark headquarters
2501 McGee Street ref: KSHB: What's next — Royals, Hallmark announce Crown Center stadium development (Sherman: break ground in 2027) (opens in a new tab)
This place is inside the area that ordinance 260705 rezones for the ballpark district. What the ordinance does.
Hallmark executive chairman Don Hall Jr. announced that the headquarters building will be torn down to make way for the stadium development. ref: KSHB: What's next — Royals, Hallmark announce Crown Center stadium development (Sherman: break ground in 2027) (opens in a new tab)
Checked through . Where no announcement appears here, we found none by that date.
About the place
Hallmark's world headquarters has occupied 2501 McGee Street since 1956. site: Hallmark Corporate: Headquarters (85 Crown) (opens in a new tab)
Hallmark Cards traces its founding to January 1910, when 18-year-old Joyce C. Hall arrived in Kansas City and began selling picture postcards. site: Hallmark Corporate: Founding: 1910s (opens in a new tab)
A fire destroyed the young company's office and inventory on January 11, 1915; the Hall brothers salvaged only their strongbox and reopened roughly $17,000 in debt. site: Hallmark Corporate: Founding: 1910s (opens in a new tab)
In 1928, J.C. Hall began printing the "Hallmark" name on the back of every card, adopting it as the company's brand. site: Hallmark Corporate: Early Innovation: 1910s–30s (opens in a new tab)
That same year, Hallmark became the first company in the greeting-card industry to advertise nationally, with its first ad appearing in Ladies' Home Journal. site: Hallmark Corporate: Early Innovation: 1910s–30s (opens in a new tab)
Hallmark signed its first licensing agreement, with Walt Disney, in 1931. site: Hallmark Corporate: Early Innovation: 1910s–30s (opens in a new tab)
Hallmark remains led by the Hall family, now in its third generation of leadership. site: Hallmark Corporate: Hallmark History (opens in a new tab)