The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council passed an ordinance that increases building height limits and opens new possibilities for the historic Country Club Plaza shopping district.

The ordinance raised the height limit to 275 feet, approximately 20 stories, for a development project on a plot of vacant land at 4720 Jefferson St.

The lot has been vacant after plans to develop it into a Nordstrom department store fell through.

Caroline Hogan is the Plaza's public relations and social media manager.

"We're thinking it could be a hotel, it could be residential, it could be active shops, it could even be offices," said Hogan. "We're not sure, but we just wanted that opportunity to be able to do whatever we wanted with it."

The site has been a source of frustration for the Plaza community.

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