Dot’s Pretzels and Tuthill Corporation are opening manufacturing facilities in the Kansas City region.

2018 has been shipped and delivered, and work is underway to optimize 2019 for the Kansas City region.

S&S Activewear, a national promotional apparel wholesaler, announced it will locate a new distribution center in Olathe, Kansas, creating 200 jobs in the region. S&S Activewear will occupy a 473,000-sq.-ft. shipping and receiving facility at I-35 Logistics Park.

Through its business attraction partnership with the Kansas City Area Development Council and regional economic development organizations, Kansas City SmartPort successfully attracted 12 freight-based projects to the Kansas City area in 2015.