A private entity is set to take deed of an old nuclear-weapons support facility in Kansas City, Mo., for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semiautonomous Department of Energy stockpile steward said.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) approved transfer of the Bannister Federal Complex, where the NNSA once manufactured non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, to Bannister Transformation and Redevelopment, according to an Oct. 19 agency press release. The work is now done at the nearby Kansas City National Security Complex, managed by Honeywell.
The governor’s approval and the finalization of the cooperative agreement with Bannister Transformation and Redevelopment “paves the way for NNSA to take the final step of transferring the property deed to the new property owner, currently scheduled in mid-November,” the release says.
CenterPoint-Zimmer, which built the new 1.5-million-square-foot, $687 million National Security Campus, will be project manager for the demolition and remediation of Bannister. The demo is expected to take up to six years, the NNSA said.
The National Security Campus is leased to the U.S. General Services Administration and sub-leased to the NNSA.
