KC SmartPort Blog

Port KC’s “Kansas City Container Market Analysis and Intermodal Trade Forecast” predicts that the KC region is primed for continued growth in trade.

Nabholz is a national multi-service contractor offering a full range of construction, industrial, excavation, and environmental services, as well as crane and fleet equipment, custom millwork cabinetry, and railroad services.

Chris Gutierrez shares with the Kansas City Business Journal how the KC region’s $125.4 billion food and beverage industry continues to grow.

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.

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

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.

Distribution By Air (DBA) is a full-service domestic and international freight forwarding company that provides time definite multimodal solutions to businesses worldwide.

Heartland Cold Storage Logistics Center will be built to accommodate a variety of cold storage requirements.