Harrisonville, Mo., officials have approved a plan for JBQ Meats, parent company of Kansas City’s Fiorella’s Jack Stack BBQ, to convert the city’s long-vacant Walmart building into a USDA-certified meat processing and packaging facility. The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to grant a 30-year special use permit allowing…
Harrisonville, Mo., officials have approved a plan for JBQ Meats, parent company of Kansas City’s Fiorella’s Jack Stack BBQ, to convert the city’s long-vacant Walmart building into a USDA-certified meat processing and packaging facility.
The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to grant a 30-year special use permit allowing JBQ to redevelop the site for processing, packaging and warehousing. The $18 million project is expected to create about 70 jobs and revitalize a property that has sat largely unused for more than a decade…