Hunt Midwest Delivers 1.5 MSF Kansas City-Area Warehouse
This is the first building to come online at a 3,300-acre campus.
Hunt Midwest has officially opened a 1.5 million-square-foot distribution center in Platte City, Mo., developed on a build-to-suit basis for Ace Hardware. UMB Bank issued a $116 million construction loan in 2023, Yardi Research Data shows.
The warehouse marks the first building to come online within Hunt Midwest’s KCI 29 Logistics Park, a 3,300-acre campus with the potential to hold more than 20 million square feet of industrial product.
Located on approximately 103 acres at 13231 NW Roanridge Road, the property is about 25 miles northwest of downtown Kansas City, Mo. The distribution center has access to Interstate 29, which runs less than 1 mile away, while the Kansas City International Airport operates within roughly 5 miles.
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The facility serves as a retail support center for Ace Hardware, supporting its network of independent stores across the country. Its size is almost twice as large as the average distribution center operated by the company.
Benefitting from a 20-year tax abatement, the property features a clear height of 40 feet, as well as four grade-level and 286 dock doors. Additionally, Ace will implement automation technology and efficiency systems designed to streamline operations and reduce environmental impact.
Since the company’s inception six decades ago, Hunt Midwest has developed more than $3 billion worth of projects across several sectors, including industrial, self storage, senior housing and multifamily. Its industrial footprint comprises some 50 million square feet.
Build-to-suit dominates Kansas City’s industrial scene
Metro Kansas City’s industrial deliveries clocked in at 5.3 million square feet during the first half of 2025, according to a Cushman & Wakefield report. Nearly 86 percent of the space that came online was constructed on a build-to-suit basis.
The market still held 7.4 million square feet of industrial product under construction in June, and notably, 76 percent of its pipeline was once again comprised of build-to-suit projects, the same report shows.
This large glut of build-to-suit developments began appearing roughly two years ago as the market started adapting, following an unprecedented growth in speculative projects between 2014 and 2023, according to the same source.
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