New Kansas City Plant Seen as Model for Weapons Complex

摘要

Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and contractor officials formallyrndedicated the NNSA’s new Kansas City Plant today, unveiling a facility that has helped modernize the nation’srnweapons complex but that officials also hope could renew a unique approach in paying for some of therninfrastructure needs across the weapons complex. In a unique arrangement, the 1.5 million-square-foot facility,rnlocated eight miles south of the plant’s former Bannister Federal Complex home, was built by developerrnCenterPoint-Zimmer, financed by the Kansas City Council through the sale of $815 million in bonds, leased to thernGeneral Services Administration, and sub-leased to the NNSA for $61.6 million in annual rent. While officialsrndedicated the facility, they also formally changed its name to the NNSA’s National Security Campus.