Kansas City, Missouri-based Hunt Midwest has committed up to $2 million in matching funds to support the construction of Northland Career Center’s new $60 million Northland Workforce Development Center.
The pledgie is the first private contribution to the plan since the State of Missouri appropriated $30 million in its fiscal year 2023 budget to support the Northland Career Center’s plan to build and grow the Northland workforce in Clay and Platte counties in Missouri.
The career center officially launched a capital campaign in October with Missouri Gov. Mike Parson.
Leaders from the Northland Career Center and Hunt Midwest will formally announce the financial partnership at a news conference held Jan. 23 at the career center in Platte.
The financial partnership is tied to Hunt Midwest’s KCI 29 Logistics Park, the 3,300-acre master-planned site development directcly north of KCI Airport that will include up to 20 million square feet of industrial space.
Hunt Midwest has pledged to contribute 10 cents per square foot of completed building space to the new Northland Workforce Development Center as each facility opens, up to $2 million in total as the entire 20-million-square-foot project is built out over the next two decades.
