1.4.00 KC Amusement Park Owners Do NOT Own Underground Thanks to Scarecrow for additional noteworthy information on the underground facilities beneath Kansas City, Missouri. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Subject: Re: Caves Under K.C. Park--Who Owns The Land Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:49:52 -0500 From: "Scarecrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just for clarity - the owners of Worlds of Fun are not the owners of the underground facilities. Hunt Midwest Subtropolis - the underground facility, is owned by Lamar Hunt, onwer of the KC Chiefs. Here is contact information regarding Hunt Midwest: Hunt Midwest Enterprises, Inc. Hunt Midwest is a Kansas City, Missouri-based company with two subsidiaries: Hunt Midwest Mining, Inc., the region's largest supplier of crushed limestone and Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, Inc., owner/developer of SubTropolis, the world's largest underground business complex and approximately 2500 acres of commercial, industrial, retail and residential real estate. Hunt Midwest is owned by Lamar Hunt and his family. The Hunt family also operates two Kansas City professional sports teams: the Chiefs of the National Football League and the Wizards of Major League Soccer. Hunt Midwest Mining, Inc. owns and operates more than 40 limestone quarries and mines throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area and eastern Kansas. The largest is the Randolph Mine which is the company's only underground limestone operation. The mine generates over 1 million tons of limestone a year. It is expected to continue to mine reserves for another 15-20 years. Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, Inc. manages, leases and develops SubTropolis, the world's largest underground business complex, from the space created through the mining process at the Randolph Mine. Currently, over 40 million square feet of space has been mined out, four million of which is occupied by more than 40 local, national and international businesses employing over 1300 people. Tenant companies include warehousing, distribution, cold storage, light manufacturing and office operations. When the underground is totally mined out, there will be 50 million square feet available for lease. Hunt Midwest has entered into a new phase of development within the past few years with the formation of a residential real estate group. The first Hunt Midwest community, North Brook, was started in 1993. Located in Kansas City's growing Northland, North Brook is now known as Communities of North Brook to reflect additional neighborhoods in the 300-acre master-planned development. SubTropolis was created through the mining out of a 270 million-year-old limestone deposit. In the mining process, limestone is removed by the room and pillar method, leaving 25 square foot pillars that are on 65 foot centers and 40 feet apart. The pillars' even spacing, concrete flooring and 16-foot-high, smooth ceilings make build-to-suit facilities time and cost efficient for tenants. A tenant requiring from 10,000 to one million square feet can be in their space within 120 days. SubTropolis is completely dry, brightly lighted, with miles of wide, paved streets, and is entered at road level. Scarecrow
