Kansas City Plant
The Kansas City Plant is a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies that produces 85 percent of the nonnuclear material used in the United States nuclear bomb arsenal. The facility is the dominant tenant in Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, Missouri.
The plant produces nonnuclear mechanical, electronic and engineered material components for U.S. national defense systems such as high-energy laser ignition systems, microwave hybrid microcircuit production, and miniature electromechanical devices. The plant also provides technical services such as metallurgical/mechanical analysis, analytical chemistry, environmental testing, nondestructive testing, computer-based training, simulations and analysis, and technical certification.
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[edit] History
The plant traces its history to the Pratt & Whitney plant dedicated by then Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942 which manufacturered Double Wasp engines during World War II. In 1949 the Atomic Energy Commission commissioned the Bendix Corporation to build the non-nuclear components of nuclear bombs there with the facility formerly owned by the United States government. Bendix became AlliedSignal in 1983 and eventually Honeywell in 1999.[1]
[edit] Future
In 2009 the General Services Administration announced that Zimmer Real Estate Services and CenterPoint Properties had won a bid to build a new plant adjacent to the now abandoned Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in south Kansas City by Grandview, Missouri. Zimmer and Centerpointe already own the CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center across the street which is serviced by Kansas City Southern railroad. According to the plan, the PIEA [the Kansas City Planned Industrial Expansion Authority] will own the Land and the Project Improvements when constructed, and will lease the Project to CPZ Holding LLC (the Ground Lessee). The Ground Lessee, as sublandlord, will lease the Project to the Developer (CenterPoint Zimmer LLC). The Developer, as sub-sublandlord, will sub-sublease the Project pursuant to the GSA Lease…to the Federal Government as sub-subtenant. Upon expiration of the [20 year] PIEA Lease, the Ground Lessee will own the project.[2] HNTB Architecture would design the campus, which will consist of 1.5 million rentable square feet in manufacturing, laboratory, office and warehouse space on the northwest corner of Missouri Highway 150 and Botts Road on the north edge of Richards-Gebaur.[3] The estimate cost of the project is $500 million to $673 million.[4]
Since the facility is being privately built, developers propose to pay $5.2 million a year in payments in lieu of property taxes to retire the debt service on $40 million worth of public infrastructure improvements associated with the project as well as providing money to local tax agencies including the Grandview School system.[5]
The GSA says the new facility will be much smaller than the 3,100,000-square-foot (290,000 m2) Bannister Road facility but will be more efficient. The move will involve a 30% reduction in staff.[6]
The first occupants are scheduled for 2011 and the whole relocation is scheduled to be completed by 2013.[5][7]
The project is subject to the developers getting private financing by March 31, 2010.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Home - Kansas City Plant". Honeywell.com. http://www.honeywell.com/sites/kcp/mission_history.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ http://emma.msrb.org/EA390871-EA307158-EA702835.pdf Tax-Exempt Infrastructure Bonds (NNSA Nationals Security Campus Project-MoDOT Funded Transportation Improvements) Series 2010 (Pg.13)
- ^ "Microsoft Word - Release _EMBARGO_.doc" (PDF). http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/regions/NNSA_Developer.pdf. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ "Kansas City NNSA/Honeywell Watch". Kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com. http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ a b "GSA picks CenterPoint, Zimmer for $500M plant - Kansas City Business Journal:". Kansascity.bizjournals.com. 2009-04-07. http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/04/06/daily14.html. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ John Pike. "Kansas City Plant - United States Nuclear Forces". Globalsecurity.org. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/kansas_city.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
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