Hunt Midwest has numerous industrial pokers in the fire throughout the Kansas City metro — including in the Northland and Shawnee — plus strategic markets in South Carolina, Kentucky and Florida. The company has a hand in 57 million square feet of industrial projects in the next few years.

Two Kansas City businesses, a family-owned construction company and a metal recycling company, have become the latest in a growing list of companies to establish new offices in the Crossroads Arts District — this time in a historic building acquired this week by new local ownership.

About 11 months ago, Fidelity Security Life Insurance Co. secured local incentives to anchor an $83.4 million office building that also would bring a new infusion of Class A space near Crown Center. But little apparent activity has occurred on the project since it surfaced last December.

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. last month took ownership of the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza and 23 other U.S. hotels after acquiring Watermark Lodging Trust Inc. A new round of renovations could follow, according to new commercial mortgage-backed securities documents.

As Panasonic's groundbreaking nears for its new battery manufacturing operation at the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, the owners of the property have renamed the location. Panasonic plans to build a $4 billion facility that could employ as many as 4,000 jobs.

Cerner Corp.'s legacy North Kansas City home theoretically could support one or more new companies or even a mixed-use redevelopment after the health care IT company vacates it at the end of the month.