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After considering about 40 alternate area sites durinha two-year real estatew analysis, Black & Veatch said March 23 that it woul keep its growing headquarters operationj at 11401 Lamar Ave., which it has occupied since its originall construction in 1976. Black & Veatcuh bought the building, which was expanded to 600,000 squar feet in 1996 and is the largest office buildingin Kansas, from Chicago-based .
A consortium of locakl banks led by financed the which eventually is expected to resulyt in morethan 1,000 new jobs for Overland The area’s 12th-largest private-sector employer, Black Veatch employs 3,800 at five area including more than 2,300 at the Lamare Avenue headquarters. After the buildingb is expanded, by roughly 2015, it will accommodate a work force of morethan “Black & Veatch’s decision to expand in Kansaw is a testament to our state’s strong businesx climate,” Gov. Mark Parkinson said in a Thursday release. “Kansas is knowbn for its safe communities, great schools and highl educatedwork force.
We’re so glad to have a globaol leader likeBlack & Veatch make Kansas the home of its worlxd headquarters.” To retain Black & Veatch, Kansase offered an impact grant wortu $25 million for training and capital investment. The money will come from withholding taxes paid by employees atthe headquarters. Overland Park committed to a 75 percent property taxabatemenrt — the largest percentage abated in city history.
“Thse combined support of the statr of Kansas and the city of Overland Park were instrumental in reachingfthis milestone,” Len Rodman, Black & Veatcn CEO, said in the “With the completion of this we can now begin to implement at our worled headquarters the same types of innovative and sustainables solutions we provide every day for our clients.” The new world headquarterx will include a solar solar canopy, bio garden and innovatiob pavilion. It also will have extensive work space, commonh area, facility and energy-management landscaping enhancements; and rainwater-reuse systemsx and stormwater run-off management.
When the building will be certifiecd via the Leadership in Energy and Environmental or LEED, program of the . “Bringing thesed innovative and futuristic enhancements to an older facilityu tomeet tomorrow’s design standards presentx a large technical challenge, but is the most sustainablre solution for the area,” Rodman said in the release. “It’s a challenge our professionalsa relish and take tremendousprides in.” The company has pilotedc many of the potential designb concepts at its more than 100 globa l offices and will draw on its LEED-certifiex experts and architecture, engineering and constructionb talent for the headquarters expansion project.
Blackk & Veatch ranks No. 1 on the Kansaas City BusinessJournal ’s list of area engineeringh firms. The $3.2 billion company is one of the world’e largest engineering, consulting and construction firms.
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