Midwest City Scoop: Construction Starts in Kansas City

Kansas City Construction Activity Expected to Hold Steady This Year

An increase in non-building work will be offset by weakness in the nonresidential and residential sectors.

City Grill

Randy Bredar
Senior VP
JE Dunn Construction

“Cerner Corp. has been a really great client for us, and we are moving forward on a couple of new buildings on the renovation of its corporate campus now,” Bredar says. “JE Dunn’s revenue looks like it will be up 20-25% locally in Kansas City. We believe 2019 will be busier than 2017 or 2018 for the market as a whole. We do not see a pullback. The last five years a lot of multifamily has gone up in the metropolitan area. Those communities are now reinvesting in schools district work, courthouses and other institutional and community buildings.”

Firm in Focus

JE Dunn Construction
1001 Locust St., Kansas City, Mo.
CEO: Gordon Lansforde
Employees: 3,100
Founded: 1924
What’s New: The first two phases of Cerner Corp.’s $284.2-million Innovations Campus were completed in 2017, and JE Dunn is now working on the next stage of the redevelopment.