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TOPEKA, KAN. — McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has completed construction on a new 500,000-square-foot plant for Mars Chocolate North America in Topeka. The new facility will produce Snickers chocolate bars and M&M’s chocolate candies. The $270 million project includes $195 million in construction costs. McCarthy built the project in conjunction with MC Industrial Inc. Construction of the plant, located in the Kanza Fire Commerce Park on U.S. Highway 75 began in September 2011. The plant is the first new Mars Chocolate North America site in the country during the last 35 years and is McCarthy’s first completion of a Kansas project since 1991.