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Tidbits of Business News from Around the Region

PLATTE COUNTY KCI Traffic Recovery

JOHNSON COUNTY Turner Earns Panasonic Work Turner Construction Co., a national contractor with a significant presence in Kansas City, will partner with a Mississippi construction company to build Panasonic Energy’s $4 billion electric-vehicle battery plant in De Soto. Yates Construction of Philadelphia, Miss., is co-project lead on the main plant and secondary buildings. The plant is projected to employ 4,000 people when it opens in 2025. $120 Million Kiewit Expansion The Lenexa City Council is studying a request from Kiewit Corp., the Omaha based engineering giant, to add a fourth building to its City Center campus, part of a $120 million project that could eventually be home to 800 employees. If approved, construction on the six-story building would begin this fall, with a pro jected 2025 completion. That would bring the company’s office footprint to more than 600,000 square feet.

SHAWNEE COUNTY Liquor Exemption Sought

Passenger traffic at KCI surged 27.9 percent in 2022, according the city’s avia tion department, with 9.8 million passen gers served as the pandemic-era recovery continues. That’s down 16.2 percent from the pre-pandemic year of 2019, with 11.7 million passengers, but more than double the 4.4 million recorded in 2020. KANSAS DOUGLAS COUNTY Homeless Plan Offered The Lawrence City Council signed off on a plan to use $4.5 mil. in federal funds to build 75 cabins as shelters for a growing homeless population. The Pallet Shelters, which have been tried in other cities, offer occupants a bed, a locking door, and heat and air conditioning in a space the size of a small bedroom, 100 square feet.

Officials in Topeka are advocating for a change in state law so that event organizers can allow public consumption of alcohol both Downtown and in the North Topeka arts district. Under state law, local government units can create “common consumption areas” in which people can buy alcohol at a licensed property and consume it off-premises. Topeka would like to make an additional change to requirements that streets to be blocked off, calling it impractical for businesses. WYANDOTTE COUNTY Logistics Center Approved Officials with the Unified Government have given initial approval for a 406,960- square-foot manufacturing facility in the Scannell 435 Logistics Center. The $70 million project by Infinity Windows, when completed, would employ 55 people upon opening and a projected 600 more by about 2027.

Friday, June 2

Proceeds provide food and care for over 1,700 animals as well as educational opportunities for children in our community.

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