KCI 29 Logistics Park

[langosta]

Isn't the City building a massive solar farm near the airport?

https://flatlandkc.org/news-issues/kans ... rm-at-kci/

After year(s) of review and approvals

[GRID]

Isn't the City building a massive solar farm near the airport?

https://flatlandkc.org/news-issues/kans ... rm-at-kci/

After year(s) of review and approvals

So are they building the solar panels or not? I can't figure out if they have gotten to the point of actual putting out RFPs to get it done etc or is it just sitting in a holding pattern?

Seems like good use of so much land.

[KC_JAYHAWK]

The City backed out on the solar farm, decided they didn't want to spend the money. I only know because I'm in the energy biz.

[GRID]

The City backed out on the solar farm, decided they didn't want to spend the money. I only know because I'm in the energy biz.

I kind of figured that.

I wonder if KCI will ever start to develop that land or if they will forever hang onto it just in case they ever need that third N/S runway. You could put millions of sq ft of industrial parks on that land.

They actually have plenty of room to develop the east side of 435 with warehouses and still have room set aside for a fourth runway. They could put a frontage road along 435. There is already an interchange there. Connect 112th/I-29 with to 120th/I-435.

There is so much land around that airport that can be developed and still have room to build another runway.

[brooksidebadgers]

wouldn't solar mess with the pilots landing planes?

[GRID]

So I got bored and did a five minute mockup of what KCI could look like 20-30 years. The amount of land up there is just insane. And it's all city owned. The city could become a major developer of industrial space and cut out the middle man. Or the Port Authority could do what they do and get it developed. Turn KCI into a national distribution center powerhouse.

[w00lyb00ger]

So I got bored and did a five minute mockup of what KCI could look like 20-30 years. The amount of land up there is just insane. And it's all city owned. The city could become a major developer of industrial space and cut out the middle man. Or the Port Authority could do what they do and get it developed. Turn KCI into a national distribution center powerhouse.

There have already been several manufacturing facilities etc… built there and there’s definitely room for plenty more. And why wouldn’t you if you’re a company that relies heavily on freight that’s delivered via air?

I only hope that if the city offers incentives to these companies like they have in the past they do a better job of making them adhere to their end of the deal. I recall a few years back when they had a strike out there because one of the companies they basically gave free land to promised they were gonna create hundreds of above average paying jobs wasn’t making good on their promise. Instead they hired a bunch of temps that were mostly foreign immigrants they could exploit. They weren’t even paying a living wage, the working conditions were horrible, management was abusive etc…

[dukuboy1]

I'm sure they will save some land for runway expansion/editions over time. But overall I agree, there is plenty of space to grow and develop. I'm happy that this new facility is going to create around 1500 jobs, and hopefully something like that will help severe as a catalyst for smaller businesses to sprout up and work in compliment of the facility. Not just this Amazon site but the either Logistics Park development.

But there is plenty of room to grow in the Northland and KCMO has annexed/controls a vast amount of land up here. From residential to commercial zoned land, the opportunity for them to add to their tax base is huge. Obviously with that land & opportunity also comes with increased cost to maintain it, police it, etc. But after decades of reasonably steady, moderate grow, I'm hoping to see the Northland really boom like JOCO did through the 90's and early 2000's. Plus with Liberty to the East charging forward and NKC doing there thing, heck even Gladstone, Riverside and Parkville all moving forward with bigger ideas and plans, makes for some really nice development opportunities. All with some of the best & easiest access to Downtown & the Urban core

[FangKC]

KCI 29 Logistics Park prepares to unlock almost 1,000 more acres for industrial construction

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Hunt Midwest now is getting ready for new infrastructure work it says will unlock that promise. The Kansas City developer in recent months has initiated bidding and city plan reviews for the second infrastructure phase at KCI 29 Logistics Park, a master-planned development that over time could encompass up to 3,300 acres of farmland just northeast of Kansas City International Airport.
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About 100 of those 162 acres will house a distribution center for Ace Hardware Corp., set to open in 2025. Ace's facility last month celebrated its structural topping out. At 1.54 million square feet and a half-mile long, it will become the metro's largest distribution center by footprint, Bell said.

By comparison, the second infrastructure phase for KCI 29 Logistics Park will open the door for 8 million square feet of industrial construction across an additional 968 acres, or 1,130 total acres throughout the development. The phase will double the park from four to eight lane miles of road infrastructure, with a northward extension of Mexico City Avenue and eastward construction of what will be called 136th Street.

The result, Bell said, will be that Hunt Midwest and different economic development organizations can more seriously pitch KCI 29 Logistics Park as an ideal site for corporate megaprojects requiring hundreds of acres, along the lines of Panasonic's roughly 300-acre battery plant in De Soto.
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At least one prospect already is advancing plans within KCI 29 Logistics Park as infrastructure work gets going. "Project Falcon," a 630,000-square-foot distribution center, this month got final city plan approval southeast of the future Mexico City Avenue extension and 136th Street. Context clues in the plans suggest Amazon will occupy the facility; the company and Hunt Midwest declined to comment on the project.

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... 7&empos=p8

[dnweava]

I would guess Amazon breaks ground in the next couple months.