Ingram’s February 2023

IN THE NEWS

Tidbits of Business News from Around the Region

PLATTE COUNTY Southern Absorbs Citizens

83rd Street and Cedar Niles Road in western Lenexa. Arise is also behind Stone Ridge, a smaller development of 103 homes nearby.

unty has awarded $190,000 to Harris Fab rication, part of a $2.1 million expansion that over the next decade is expected to generate a combined economic impact of $175 mil lion, agency officials say. The expansion will accommodate up to 30 new full-time workers with compensation packages of more than $50,000 each. The company specializes in metal fabrication and design. Developers are seeking a change in zoning on the site of the former Cerner Continuous Campus in western Wyandotte County, but the contours of their plan have yet to be released, other than suggesting the 63.5-acre site will become something more invigorating that office space alone. The two towers, each nine stories high, cover 660,000 square feet, with nearly 2,600 parking spaces. The zoning change being sought would expand normal office use to allow establishments that might be louder and more visible, with hours outside of 9-to-5. WYANDOTTE COUNTY Cerner Site Make-Over

The regional banking consolidation trend also saw Poplar Bluff-based Southern Bank, with $3.4 billion in assets, jump into the Kansas City market by acquiring Citizens Bank & Trust Co. in a cash-and stock purchase that added nearly $1 billion in assets for the buyer. Southern dips its toe into this market with Citizens’ 15 branches, six of which are in the Kansas City area. Southern’s footprint now covers 65 facilities in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, and Arkansas. KANSAS JOHNSON COUNTY Arise Homes Goes Big Arise Homes will do its part to address the nation’s housing crunch with Stone Ridge North, a massive residential development that will include more than 380 single family homes and more than 50 duplexes. Developers have asked to rezone 168 acres at

LEAVENWORTH COUNTY Big Moves for Hill’s

In January, Hill’s Pet Nutrition anno unced that it would move its corporate headquarters from Topeka to Overland Park. It is also putting the finishing touches on its new $250 million manufacturing facility in Tonganoxie. The 300,000-square-foot plant is expected to create nearly 80 new jobs when production begins in the fall. The plant sits on 84 acres Hill’s acquired in 2021 at the Tonganoxie Business Park and will produce packaged wet foods for dogs and cats. That operation will support production at the company’s Pet Nutrition Center in Topeka. SHAWNEE COUNTY Manufacturer Gets Incentives The Joint Economic Development Org- anization serving Topeka and Shawnee Co-

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