National Records Center — Existing Underground Records Facility
Lee’s Summit has received a preliminary development plan application for a massive new USCIS National Records Center, a proposed campus topping 315,000 square feet that would replace the city’s current underground records operation. City officials say the facility would process, store and manage more than $26 million in immigration files, but it is not a detention center and would not include detainee housing or enforcement activity.
The City of Lee’s Summit confirmed it received the application on Oct. 9, according to KSHB 41 Kansas City. Per the application, the new facility would serve as a secure records management campus for the U.S. General Services Administration and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, replacing the city’s existing underground records campus…