Our Kansas City Office

McCownGordon is proud of our long-standing relationship with the Olathe School District. The Olathe West High School project was one of the larger opportunities for our team. We provided safety, preconstruction, collaborative delivery, and building information modeling services. The project was recognized across the industry for the quality asphalt and concrete work.

The Olathe West High School spans 375,000 square feet and features:

• flexible classroom space
• administrative offices
• a performing arts/blackbox
  theater
• a gymnasium with a FEMA storm shelter
• cafeteria
• football stadium
• tennis courts
• soccer fields and track with synthetic turf and competition facility

McCownGordon is a long-term partner of the Children’s Mercy Research Institute. Currently, the team is constructing their new research institute, which provides state-of-the-art facilities for researchers to discover new ways to treat, diagnose and prevent complex childhood diseases. The facility features wet and dry labs, a conference center, an auditorium, a discovery center, classrooms, a café and business offices. The tower also features a green roof and garden space to create a healthy environment for researchers.

McCownGordon is leading the facility master plan for Garmin International’s corporate headquarters campus expansion in Olathe, Kansas. The expansion is creating a holistic campus environment that fosters innovation, embodies qualities of a global leader, and improves the productivity and wellbeing of their associates.

McCownGordon helped Garmin evaluate its complex programmatic needs and requirements to understand and analyze the various options to meet their short- and long-term goals. Our team’s collaboration and in-depth evaluation resulted in a multi-year, multi-phased project that combines innovation with feasibility and touches every building on their campus.

The initial phases included more than 762,000 SF of new distribution and manufacturing space to provide creative and flexible space for engineering teams; four-story parking garage and pedestrian plaza to improve campus accessibility and safety for associates and visitors; and significant enhancements to the 95-acre site to improve associate well-being, including an expansive outdoor event space, extended walking trails, recreational soccer and sand volleyball fields, and running trails.

The latest completed phase included 579,000 square feet of new office space and 375,000 square feet of renovated office space which includes campus amenities: hub of food service dining/ cafeteria for 4,000+ associates, conference/training/classroom spaces, and a large fitness center with multiple gyms and dedicated areas for cardio fitness, weights, classes and wellness center. The extensive renovation added two floors to an existing single-story space to provide three floors of employee amenity space.

All phases were constructed on the active campus while working around daily operations and activities. A top priority for our team was to ensure Garmin was able to maintain normal operations throughout construction. Working together, the McCownGordon team has successfully achieved aggressive schedules, a safety process and value-enhanced programs. McCownGordon’s creative thinking and partnership approach to preconstruction has saved the client significant long-term operational and maintenance costs, as well as improved quality and increased amenity spaces.