they went and built a skyscraper seven stories tall, about as high as a building ought to go...
I had the pleasure of visiting KC over the summer while driving back from Santa Fe. It's really quite a pleasant city, with several cool activity centers that are spread out (Crown Center, downtown, Power/Light, Plaza, etc) making the city seem much more dense and urban than the numbers would suggest. It seemed odd that a city could have such a nice pedestrian environment in many places without a single mile of rail transit, but I wasn't complaining. The urban environment in KC is far healthier than the majority of Midwestern cities... St. Louis, Indy, Detroit, Milwaukee, etc. Oh, and y'all have killer BBQ.