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Kansas City airport terminal costs approach $2B

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The price tag has almost doubled from estimates during the bidding phase, which the development team attributes to airline design changes like adding gates and airplane parking spaces.

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Schedule, Cost Adjustments for Kansas City's P3 Airport Terminal

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The private developers of Kansas City, Mo.’s ’s new airport terminal have adjusted the project’s cost, estimating that the $964-million public-private venture approved by voters in November 2017 will now require as much as $1.4

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Illinois town planning for $500M rail-served logistics center

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The logistics center will use the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The freight rail industry is an estimated $60 billion business, comprising 140,000 miles.

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Fed Economist Forecasts Uptick in Single-Family Construction

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The housing market may be headed straight for a post-pandemic downturn, but according to Jordan Rappaport, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, an uptick in single-family home building could soon follow. million, but a number of challenges remain for regional builders across the U.S., NAHB reports.

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BNSF Opens New Logistics Park Intermodal Facility In Kansas

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BNSF Railway introduced its new Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC) Intermodal Facility in Edgerton, KS in October, 2013. LPKC is projected to help create an estimated 7,400 jobs in the area of the development and 13,000 jobs in the state of Kansas at full build-out. Rose, BNSF Railway chairman and chief executive officer.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. Greater Kansas City: Silicon Prairie. We’ve found this in Kansas City. Rick Perry in a statement.

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Katoen Natie USA Announces $150 Million Baton Rouge Area Facility

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LED estimates the project will also result in 516 new indirect jobs, for a total of more than 700 new permanent jobs. Katoen Natie’s plans include developing tie-ins to rail assets served by Kansas City Southern Railway and Canadian National Railroad, potentially becoming one of the few facilities of its kind with dual railway access. “We