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  • Cold Storage Speculative Building Breaks Ground in KC

    by Mary Rooney | Aug 03, 2021
    The Heartland Cold Storage Logistics Center broke ground in July. The first cold storage industrial speculative building in the Kansas City market is expected to be completed in Q1 2022.
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  • KC SmartPort Food & Beverage Industry Update

    by Mary Rooney | Jun 30, 2021
    More than 670 industrial food and beverage companies call Kansas City home and it’s not hard to see why. Kansas City’s $125.4 billion food and beverage industry continues to thrive with proximity to key agriculture markets, advanced logistics infrastructure, clean and reliable water supply, abundant utility capacity and a strong industry-specific talent pipeline. Kansas City has a workforce of more than 25,500 people employed in food and beverage manufacturing, warehousing and distribution
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  • Niagara Bottling, LLC Announces New Bottling Production Facility In KC

    by Laura Patriquin | Jun 28, 2021
    Congratulations to our partners in Kansas City, Missouri, on Niagara Bottling, LLC’s $156 million investment in a 634,000-sq.-ft., production facility at 11440 N. Airworld Drive. The company plans to create nearly 100 new jobs. Mark Long, Newmark Zimmer, led the real estate search for this project.
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