VanTrust Adds 330 KSF at Kansas City Industrial Campus

More than a third of the building is preleased. Image courtesy of VanTrust Real Estate

VanTrust Real Estate has commenced construction on Building B2, a 330,000-square-foot industrial project within New Century Commerce Center, a 535-acre campus in New Century, Kan. Some 130,000 square feet of the building are already preleased. This will be the third facility within the park and CBRE is the exclusive leasing agent.

New Century Commerce Center is an industrial project being developed in phases. Phase I is designed to accommodate up to 1.5 million square feet and has the 330,000-square-foot Building A already sold to Cnano Technology USA and the 752,000-square-foot Building B1 recently reaching completion and being available for lease. The already-planned two phases are set to provide 3.6 million square feet, with the industrial campus expected to eventually total approximately 7.1 million square feet.

Located between New Century Air Center and John Glenn Parkway, New Century Commerce Center is close to Interstate 35 and 27 miles from Kansas City. Additionally, the industrial campus will provide easy access to the area’s major transportation hubs and a deep workforce pool. CBRE’s team of Senior Vice Presidents Michael Mitchelson and Austin Baier are marketing the development for lease.

Recent industrial activity in the Kansas City area

Multiple developers announced industrial projects in the Kansas City area this year. In June, Block Real Estate Services received city approval for a 3.7 million-square-foot campus. Tiffany Springs Logistics Center’s first phase will consist of 1.9 million square feet, with construction expected to begin in 2024.

The metro had some 10.2 million square feet of industrial space under construction as of October, according to a recent CommercialEdge report. One of the more recent additions to the pipeline is Vertical Cold Storage’s multi-modal distribution center marking the company’s eighth such facility.