From last week:
A new tenant for some downtown offices! Decent sized # of employees too. Exact location still to be determined.
California tech firm moving HQ, creating 300 jobs in downtown KC
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Welcome to Silicon Prairie.
AutoAlert, a California-based leader in software solutions for auto dealers, has been offered a state Missouri Works grant of as much as $9.2 million for moving its headquarters to downtown Kansas City.
The company, which is currently headquartered in Irvine, Calif., is expected to create more than 300 high-paying tech jobs at the new location.
“We are still in negotiations on the location,” AutoAlert spokeswoman Beth Moore said, but the company plans to announce it soon and be operational there sometime this spring.
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And from today, the building they're gonna move to is ...
AutoAlert HQ heads to former KC Southern building
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The tech firm has signed a lease for about 45,000 square feet of new headquarters space on four floors of the former Kansas City Southern Railway headquarters building at 114 W. 11th St.
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Which is this thing
here. Good to see some offices being taken up. Hopefully the downtown office market will get tight enough soon so that we can get some new office construction.