Grandview’s position as Kansas City area’s wholesaling and distribution gateway was solidified when an intermodal facility on the City’s southern border launched operations in March of 2008. CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center provides direct rail linkage via the Kansas City Southern Railway Company to the new Port of Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico.
Center-Point Highligts:
1,340 total acres
370-acre KCS intermodal
970-acre CenterPoint industrial park
5+ million SF of buildings (phase I)
$300+ million total investment
Possibility to create 2,500 jobs
CenterPoint officials project that the $250,000,000 project will result in five million square feet of warehousing and distribution space, and that it will create over 2,000 new jobs. Although the facility only opened in March of 2008, the volume of containers and vehicles now being on- and off-loaded at the site testify to the Center’s coming impact on the local economy.
The Intermodal Center property also will see the development of eight million square feet of underground storage space carved out of the underlying limestone rock by Hunt Midwest. The company projects it will invest approximately $250,000,000 over the next several years in creating a massive underground storage facility.
The CenterPoint project is located approximately 1/8 of a mile from Grandview’s southern border, an area of the City in which a majority of the light industrial, wholesaling, and distribution centers are located. City officials therefore are confident that section of Grandview also will grow and prosper as the CenterPoint facility develops.
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