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Cost of Expanding Hall Rises As Funding Runs Short in Kansas City, Mo.

By Rick Alm, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 5--The price tag to expand Bartle Hall is getting bigger.

A list of improvements ranging from new carpeting to more parking garages has been added to the project, mushrooming cost estimates to more than $186 million. Some of those items are designed to assist development of the planned performing arts center next door to Bartle.

Meanwhile, a lingering travel and tourism tailspin in a still-wobbly economy is eroding city hotel revenue needed to help pay for the proj

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