The Port Authority of Kansas City has voted to sever its ties to a local company that intends to sell one of its warehouses to the federal government, for the purpose of turning it into an immigrant detention center.
The board of commissioners of Port KC approved a resolution unanimously on Monday to terminate and refrain from any negotiations with Platform Ventures, the Kansas City company that owns the warehouse in south Kansas City.
At Monday’s meeting, Port KC CEO Jon Stephens said the agency is doing what it can to discourage and disallow the transfer or sale of the warehouse. He said the site was intended to bring manufacturing and logistics jobs to the area…