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Black & Veatch Plans $1.34B Headquarters and Mixed-Use District in Kansas
The 110-year-old engineering and construction firm envisions a nine-story structure to eventually house 3,500 employees.
Black & Veatch's proposed new nine-story, $500-million global headquarters would be surrounded by a mixed-use district that the company says would add vibrancy and walkability to Overland Park, Kansas.
Black & Veatch is planning a $1.34-billion project to build a new world headquarters in Overland Park, Kan., and make it the anchor of a surrounding mixed-use development.
The 110-year-old engineering and construction firm plans to demolish its current 50-year-old headquarters building, construct a new $500-million structure on the same land, and add 700 multi-family housing units, 88 townhomes, a daycare, a hotel and a private green space in a multi-use district that would be called Overland Park Plaza II.
Black & Veatch will serve as the master developer of the multi-use portion of the project which is expected to take 10 years to complete. Kansas City's JE Dunn will serve as general contractor for the headquarters, and fellow Kansas City architect BNIM is designer along with Chicago-based Clayco as the owner's consultant.
“Most importantly, Black & Veatch employee-owners will continue to be embedded across each phase, playing a key role in shaping a best-in-class experience for our future headquarters,” the company said in an email.
The current headquarters is located on 33 acres mostly made up of grass and parking lots at 112th and Lamar streets in Overland Park. It was constructed in 1976 and expanded to about 600,000 sq-ft in 1996. A 12,000-sq-ft Innovation Pavilion, which also serves as the main entrance, was added in 2014.
Despite those expansions, "the building is no longer compatible with the competitive, dynamic needs of today’s workforce or the way our teams collaborate, innovate and will deliver into the future,” the company said.
The new headquarters is planned to have nine stories and increase capacity from 2,250 employees to more than 3,500 in the future. It is planned to include a new parking garage with a weather-protected skywalk connecting to the building, a courtyard and green space, a fitness center for employees and a daycare center.
The proposed mixed-use development “is designed to create an expansive, walkable community that integrates with surrounding areas to bring sustained vibrancy to Overland Park,” the company said.
Chief Business Evolution Officer Patrick Hogan said the new headquarters “will continue to support our accelerated growth, attract the next generation of talent and create a dynamic environment of innovation and collaboration for decades to come.”
The city’s plan commission recently approved the company’s request to rezone its headquarters property from office to a mixed-used district. Black & Veatch is requesting more than $200 million in tax increment financing which still must be approved by the city.
Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog said the proposed development is in keeping with the priorities of Framework OP, the city’s comprehensive plan which was adopted in 2024.
“Part of that is taking a property like Black & Veatch [headquarters], which is a building surrounded by parking lots and transforming that into a more mixed-use community,” he said.
Black & Veatch is a 100% employee-owned company. Its annual revenue was approximately $5 billion in 2025 and it is the sixth largest employee-owned company in the U.S. This year it ranked 14 on the ENR Top 500 Design Firms.
