Panasonic Corp. appears to be the company that last month drove Kansas to approve a vast new business incentive program to better attract billion-dollar megaprojects, starting with a mysterious $4 billion advanced manufacturing facility for which the state is competing against Oklahoma as a finalist.
Kansas lawmakers have cited nondisclosure agreements in withholding information on the prospective company looking to build a $4 billion, 3 million-square-foot facility with 4,000 permanent jobs in state.
The former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto first was reported by the Kansas City Business Journal as the likely Kansas site being considered.
