The largest property owner in the United States -- the federal government -- has excess building space it would like to sell. The Obama administration has put together a cool, interactive map of 7,000 sheds, underutilized office buildings and empty warehouses scattered across the 50 states.
The map highlights seven buildings in Kansas City, Missouri, the federal government would like to discard. Only a partial listing of the feds' unwanted real estate, the map does not draw attention to the Bannister Federal Complex, portions of which have attained Superfund status.
Six of the available Kansas City properties are warehouses, with square footage ranging from 8,970 to 216,992. The map indicatesthat the warehouses are located at the intersection of Independence Avenue and Hardesty. The General Services Administration owns several buildings near the large, eye-catching, privately owned self-storage facility that's on the southeast corner of the intersection.
The area was used as a quartermaster depot during World War II. The warehouse on the corner was sold to Megaspace Ltd. in 1980. Other buildings at the site were torn down. The GSA used what remained for storage. The seventh building that's for sale houses utility systems.
The only other Kansas City-area properties listed on the map are in Grandview. The parks service, which maintains a 5.25-acre remnant of the Grandview farm that Harry Truman worked as a young man, has two small warehouses that it considers expendable.
In Kansas, the federal government wants to sell two research labs located in Manhattan.
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