The place I work at has been working to build a new complex is south KCMO for years. Lots of people thought it would never go through especially with the economy in the shape its in. Fighting lawsuits, decrease in weapons production, and construction costs; we've finally wonConstruction will ensure 2,000+ jobs in KC
Contractor was announced yesterday to start what they say is the second biggest private construction being leased by the Gov. at $2.6 billion
Glad to see I may be in a new building, now just gotta start packing for the move in 3 years
"A developer has been chosen for the new Honeywell weapons plant in south Kansas City, capping a lengthy struggle to keep its 2,100 well-paid jobs in the area.
A venture between Zimmer Real Estate Services of Kansas City and CenterPoint of Oak Brook, Ill., will develop the $500 million project, the federal General Services Administration is announcing today.
Work should begin this summer on the five-building campus on 185 farm acres at Missouri 150 and Botts Road.
Michael Brincks, GSA acting regional administrator, called it Âa major milestone in ensuring that the facility  which has made non-nuclear parts for atomic weapons at the Bannister Federal Complex since the dawn of the Cold War in 1949  stays in the area.
The average salary at the plant is $95,000 and the 2007 payroll was $275 million.
ÂFinally being able to bring the developer on culminates more than two full years of planning, preparation and determination, Brincks said.
Completion of the 1.5 million-square-foot complex is scheduled in late 2011.
Since the project is being developed privately, the Honeywell operation also will begin paying local taxes for the first time. The GSA has estimated the replacement facility will generate $5.2 million annually in property taxes when fully operational in 2013.
Over the 20-year life of the lease, the federal funds for the Honeywell plant will total about $1.2 billion.
More than 1,800 workers may be needed to build the campus; the GSA estimated the economic spin-off during construction could be $2.6 billion.
GSA officials called it the second-largest project to be developed privately and leased to the federal government. The largest is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office complex in suburban Washington, D.C.
The local Heartland GSA office began working with the National Nuclear Security Administration in 2006 on a plan to replace the aging World War II defense plant where Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies operates under a contract with the NNSA."
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now the City has dumped a few hundy thousand on stuff that wont even get off the ground 
so much for my local taxes 
