Article: United States : Deal for new Honeywell nuclear weapons plant in KC advances.

Byline: manish03

A $650 million development agreement to build a new nuclear weapons plant for Honeywell is bound for the Kansas City Council after being endorsed Friday by a development agency.

The board of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City voted unanimously to approve the plan, which calls for a private developer, CenterPoint Zimmer LLC, to build a 1.4 million-square-foot campus at Missouri 150 and Botts Road.

The federal government has agreed to a 20-year lease, a move that will allow Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies to remain in operation in a more efficient facility and keep 2,100 jobs in Kansas City. ...

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