Ingram's November 2022

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Tidbits of Business News from Around the Region

and St. Louis. In June, more flights will be added to Las Vegas, Pensacola, and Orlando. KANSAS DOUGLAS COUNTY Feds Tip Farm & Ranch Scale When Tractor Supply Co. announced early this year that it would acquireMissouri based Orscheln Farm and Home, consumers in Lawrence anticipated losing one of the two competing stores that both operate on 23rd Street. Now, federal regulators have ordered Tractor Supply to sell 73 Orscheln stores to Bomgaars Supply to limit the number of monopoly markets. And one of those 73 is the Orscheln store in Lawrence, so that the city will retain competing stores. JOHNSON COUNTY Coming: Merriam Grand Station Overland Park-based Drake Develop ment has acquired the site of a former Kmart at Shawnee Mission Parkway and

Antioch Road, where it will build a 362-unit apartment complex called Merriam Grand Station. Demolition is expected to start soon, clearing the way for a $136millionmixed-use project that will include a pair of restaurants and about 3,300 square feet of retail when the work wraps up in 2025. KCAS to Add 175 Jobs KCAS Bioanalytical and Biomarker Services has opened a $28 million laboratory in Olathe, which is expected to create 175 new jobs. KCAS is a fast-growing contract research organization with multiple appearances on Ingram’s Corporate Report 100. It serves biotech, pharmaceutical, and drug-development programs in animal health, and the 70,000-square-foot lab will conduct discovery, preclinical, and clinical studies.

to be demolished for a replacement and realignment of the Polk-Quincy Viaduct in Downtown Topeka. The department engaged with owners of six buildings, has reached preliminary agreements on two others, and is processing paperwork for a final acquisition. That would clear the way for the $355 million project to replace an aging roadway, remove a sharp high-speed curve and improve traffic flow through Down- town Topeka. WYANDOTTE COUNTY Urban Outfitters Site Opens The Kansas City region notched another logistics win in October with the opening of Urban Outfitters’ $403 million distribution center in western Wyandotte County—the company’s first facility of its kind in the U.S. The 880,000-square foot center near State Avenue and 118th Street is expected to employ 2,000 people. Various brands being shipped include Anthropologie, Free People, FP Movement, Menus & Venues, Terrain, and Nuuly.

SHAWNEE COUNTY Viaduct Rerouting

The Kansas Department of Trans portation says it’s batting 19-for-28 in its quest to acquire buildings that will have

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