A new $30 million office building will expand into the Village West area, according to an announcement by the Dairy Farmers of America.
DFA will make its new headquarters in Kansas City, Kan., according to the announcement, and more than 325 employees will relocate there from their current offices in Kansas City, Mo., where they have been since 1998.
The headquarters building, a three-story, 100,000-square-foot building, is expected to be completed by December 2016, according to Kristen Coady, senior director, corporate communications, with the Dairy Farmers of America.
She said the new office building development would be located in the area east of I-435, on 98th between State Avenue and Parallel Parkway. That is the location of the Schlitterbahn development project and near the planned U.S. Soccer facility.
As the largest milk marketing cooperative in the nation, DFA exports dairy products and is the sixth largest dairy company in the world, Coady said. The Dairy Farmers of America is a cooperative owned by 15,000 dairy farmers across the country. Those members have elected to invest in brands such as Borden Cheese, Kemps, Keller’s Creamery and Hiland Dairy, she said.
Last year the Dairy Farmers of America announced plans to build a $235 million dairy ingredients plant in western Kansas, that is expected to be in operation by 2017. It will manufacture milk powder for export, according to the announcement.