Ingrams July 2023

IN THE NEWS

Tidbits of Business News from Around the Region

Honors Begin for New KCI Less than 90 days after the curtain rose on the single-terminal design of Kansas City International Airport, TravelAwaits has ranked KCI as the best in the country thanks to its artistry and design. The organization praised KCI for overall terminal design, glass infrastructure, inclusion of international and regional artists, and, of course, availability of barbecue. Others under consideration included international airports in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Pho- enix, Baltimore, and Palm Springs. KANSAS DOUGLAS COUNTY Sales Taxes Plunge Sales taxes generated in Lawrence in April showed a year-over-year decline of roughly $17 million, which officials attribute in part to figures skewed in 2022 from a celebration after KU won the NCAA men’s basketball championship. That represented a 10 percent decline for the month.

JOHNSON COUNTY Panasonic Ripple Effect

on design and construction, and the plant is projected to begin operations in 2025. Beef from a packing plant in Nebraska will be shipped to the Olathe facility, where it will be further processed and shipped to the compa ny’s retail locations in the Midwest, including all of its 83 retail locations in Kansas. WYANDOTTE COUNTY Massive Gift for Cancer Center Bolstered by a $100 million gift from the Sunderland Foundation, the University of Kansas and The University of Kansas Health System are moving forward with the development of a new destination cancer center on the campus. Ground breaking for the first phase is expected in 2024. By the time it’s completed, the facility will consolidate operations from multiple metro-area sites, offering expanded space for patient care and cancer research. The Sunderland gift is the largest ever made by the Kansas City-based foun dation and is the largest lead gift in the university’s history.

One of the first major infrastructure improvements to support Panasonic Energy’s $4 billion battery plant in De Soto has broken ground—a $61 million expansion of 103rd Street near K-10 highway. Though paved, the current road carries traffic over just two lanes; it will be expanded to four lanes, with a divider, along with sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. It will run from Evening Star Road near the Douglas County line to K-10’s interchange at Lexington Road. Major Beef Plant to Olathe Walmart has received the green light to build a beef packing and distribution plant in Olathe, a $257 million project that it says will create nearly 675 jobs by 2027. The company plans to break ground this fall on the plant, which has a footprint of nearly 331,000 square feet and will entail more than 1,000 construction and design-related jobs. McCownGordon Construction has the lead

WHAT WE DO MATTERS, AND WE’RE PROUD TO BE PART OF THE KC COMMUNITY Each day, nearly 19,000 DFA employees — including 550 here at our headquarters in Kansas City — work to better the lives of our nearly 6,000 dairy farm families. With more than 80 manufacturing plants throughout the country, we’re proud to bring food from our family dairy farmers to tables here in Kansas City, as well as more than 20,000 schools and 17,000 retail and food service customers around the world. We’re #DFAproud to be one of the fastest-growing companies in the Kansas City metro area. Get to know us at dfamilk.com

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