The 5 million pounds of rebar was detailed, fabricated, and supplied by The Carter-Waters Corporation of Kansas City. All of the 2,404 individual glass units on the main building were produced sequentially and completely assembled prior to shipping. There are roughly 200 tons of system profiles and accessories. In total there are approximately 13,000 square meters (140,000 sq ft) of double insulated glass and 5,000 square meters (54,000 sq ft) of painted aluminum curtain wall panels. Hong Kong to Architectural Wall Systems, the Des Moines, Iowa based glazing contractor who installed the building envelope. The complete exterior glass façade system, all metal panels for the adjacent buildings and all accessory metal cladding, was custom designed, detailed, and supplied by Overgaard Ltd. Groundbreaking was on June 24, 2005, and construction was completed on Octoat US$276 million (equivalent to $361 million in 2021). Mortenson Company, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The final design was selected in August 2005, from the Downtown Arena Design Team, which was a collaboration of the architectural firms Populous, 360 Architecture, Rafael Architects, and Ellerbe Becket.
The arena is owned by the city of Kansas City, Missouri.
It has effectively replaced Kemper Arena as the city's primary indoor arena, which had been built in 1974 a few miles away in the West Bottoms neighborhood. It is located at the intersection of 14th Street and Grand Boulevard on the east side of the Power & Light District. T-Mobile Center (formerly Sprint Center) is a multi-purpose arena in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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