estate founded 1922 headquarters kansas city missouri key people jon copaken principal keith copaken principal bucky brooks principal troy marquis ceo website website copaken brooks formerly 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 missouri s largest buildings . the firm was founded by herman copaken in 1922 . in the 1950s 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 hickory point mall in forsyth illinois and rockaway townsquare 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 accomplishments 2013 kansas city small business of the year award winner notable properties edit town pavilion 1201 walnut city market the actual market complex plaza colonnade renaissance office buildings college and metcalf market square center creekwood commons external links edit emporis profile references edit building on success the cwb tradition cwbkc.com applebee s opens 49m hq bizjournals.com january 14 2008 gsa picks boundaries for new office building bizjournals.com december 28 2007 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title copaken brooks & oldid 647238145 categories companies established in 1922real estate companies of the united statescompanies based in kansas city missouri navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 12 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view