Missouri

KANSAS CITY, MO. — OpenStore has selected the Kansas City market for its first-ever fulfillment center. The 113,000-square-foot facility is expected to create 46 new jobs and bring $2 million in new annual payroll to the region in the next five years. OpenStore is the largest operator of businesses on Shopify, distributing goods across a range of beauty, home goods, apparel and electronics. The Kansas City distribution center, located at Executive Park Logistics Center, represents a $5 million capital investment and positions OpenStore to provide faster and more efficient service to its growing portfolio of 40 e-commerce brands. The Miami-based e-commerce company says it selected Kansas City due to its central U.S. access point and its robust labor pool with distribution industry experience. The Kansas City region offers access to 90 percent of the contiguous U.S. in two days or less by truck. The Kansas City Area Development Council promotes the region’s business and lifestyle assets to companies and talent around the world.

LIBERTY, MO. — TAB USA and Animal Health International have inked leases at Liberty Heartland Logistics Center in the Kansas City suburb of Liberty. The Opus Group developed the three-building industrial project in a joint venture with Washington Capital Management Inc. TAB, an international manufacturer of industrial batteries, moved into its 66,700-square-foot space earlier this year for housing its first U.S. headquarters and assembly and distribution operations. Animal Health International, a global distributor of animal health products, will open its 255,000-square-foot distribution center in March. Liberty Heartland Logistics Center currently has 490,300 square feet of vacancy across two buildings. The first phase of the development was an 847,475-square-foot build-to-suit for Hallmark. Opus was the developer, design-builder, architect and structural engineer on the shell buildings and the architect and structural engineer on TAB’s build-out. Davidson Architecture & Engineering and Krudwig Structural Engineers completed the build-out for Animal Health International. Michael VanBuskirk, Mark Long, John Hassler and Scott Bluhm of Newmark Zimmer are the leasing agents.