Less than a year after locating in Kansas City, Missouri’s SubTropolis, pharmaceutical company Nostrum Laboratories and online retailer FarmFoods have expanded their respective footprints a combined 52,000 square feet within the world’s largest underground business complex.
Nostrum Laboratories more than tripled the size of its distribution facility while FarmFoods increased its footprint six-fold.
“SubTropolis enables pharmaceutical and e-commerce companies unparalleled opportunity and flexibility to expand their space within a short timeframe,” said Mike Bell, senior vice president of commercial development at Hunt Midwest. “We can deliver Class-A industrial space to our tenants in as little as 120 days, allowing companies like Nostrum and FarmFoods the ability to capitalize on the growth of their business.”
As an Energy Star-rated facility providing 24/7, year-round security, company leaders at New Jersey-based Nostrum Laboratories recognized the value proposition SubTropolis offered in meeting their climate-controlled requirements for product safety and quality control.
A soaring increase in online grocery shopping triggered the need for FarmFoods, an online retailer of fresh, farm- to-table food, to quickly expand its packaging and distribution facility to keep up with consumer demand.
Earlier this year, Hunt Midwest completed construction of 400,000 square feet of speculative Class-A industrial and warehouse-logistics space, bringing the amount of leasable space in SubTropolis to more than 6.5M square feet. With more than 7.5M square feet available for development and its adjacency to robust highway infrastructure, SubTropolis continues to offer the ideal location for growing e-commerce companies.
