Copaken, White & Blitt

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Copaken, White & Blitt
Type	Private
Founded	1922
Headquarters	Kansas City, Missouri
Key people	Jon Copaken, principal Keith Copaken, principal Troy Marquis, CEO
Industry	Real estate
Website	cwbkc.com

Copaken, White & Blitt is a family-owned commercial real estate developer headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri that owns and developed some of the city's and Missour's largest buildings.

The firm was founded by Herman Copaken in 1922.

In the 1950s three brothers in law three brothers in law -- Paul Copaken, Lewis White and Irwin Blitt -- took over the company.

In the 1960s and 1970s the company developed several shopping centers including Mission Center Mall, Oak Park Mall as well as the Eastland Mall in Bloomington, Illinois and the Rockaway Town Square in Rockaway, New Jersey.

The company also sold the property to Sprint and Black & Veatch Corporation to build their corporate headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas.^[1]. In 2008 it developed the headquarters of Applebee's^[2]

The company currently has a proposal to build a 678,000 square foot 40+ floor skyscraper at 12th Street and Grand in Downtown Kansas City to consolidate federal offices.^[3]