City struggles with surge of employees

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — At the start of each day, the city of Edgerton’s population nearly triples.

Around 4,500 employees travel to the community at the southwest corner of Johnson County each day — jumping off of Interstate 35 or driving along green farm fields and waiting for trains to pass — on their way to one of the fastest growing business parks in the country. Along with a new workforce, in the past six years Logistics Park Kansas City has attracted $1.1 billion in private investment, from industry giants such as Amazon, UPS and Hostess.

But community leaders say there’s not much keeping those thousands of employees around after they clock out.

Already a subscriber? Log in

Username or Email Address

Password

Remember Me

View subscription options