Business View Magazine | April 2020

220 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2020 of commercial and residential development in the community. “It’s pretty standard that a company, from the time they submit their initial application, can break ground in 120 days or less,” he adds. “You don’t really see that elsewhere. The other piece is that we don’t get boxed in by conventional thinking. That whole mindset of ‘that’s the way it’s normally done’ isn’t necessarily the mindset here in Edgerton. We’ve been able to do a lot of the things that we’ve accomplished here by thinking outside the box and getting creative on solutions. A tiny farming community needed to do that to be able to build the 13-million-square-foot business park that’s out here.” What Oltman is referring to is Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC), a 1,700-acre, master-planned distribution and warehouse development situated just southwest of downtown Kansas City. Served by global intermodal transportation leader, BNSF Railway, LPKC is a world-class inland port with direct connection to the global supply chain.