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Lenexa AdventHealth campus project put on hold, receives council approval to delay groundbreaking

AdventHealth's planned wellness campus at Lenexa City Center has received a go to begin, however developers say progress on the project will take longer than anticipated due to COVID-19. completion of those stages will take a bit longer. With approval… more

KC-based clinical laboratory Eurofins Viracor, Inc. breaks ground on new state-of-the-art facility

Multiple facilities of Viracor Eurofins, a subsidiary of Eurofins Viracor, Inc., will be consolidated with the construction of a new facility for the clinical specialty lab. A groundbreaking for the Kansas City area-based company this week will move it from… more

Clinical Reference Laboratory expands operations out west

Confirm BioSciences out of San Diego, Calif. has been acquired by Lenexa-based Clinical Reference Laboratory (CRL). CRL is one of the largest privately held clinical testing laboratories in the U.S., and now leverages Confirm's massive customer base in Drugs of… more

Lenexa-based Westlake Ace Hardware expands north

Westlake Ace Hardware is stocking up in Nebraska, with a deal to buy four additional stores in Lincoln. Lenexa-based Westlake said it will buy four Q.P. Ace Hardware stores in a deal expected to close later this month. Terms of… more

Coping with COVID: Lenexa laboratory to open direct sale of COVID-19 tests to consumers

Clinical Reference Laboratory in Lenexa announced that it is now selling its saliva-based COVID-19 RT-PCR test directly to consumers. It costs $110, including shipping. The company says the test is one of the most affordable COVID-19 home tests currently available… more

U.S. government finalizes long-term lease for Lenexa FDA lab

A 20-year lease has been finalized on a Food and Drug Administration laboratory in Lenexa, Kan. General Services Administration finalized the lease with Easterly Government Properties Inc. for the new 59,690-square-foot U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratory building. The… more

Coping with COVID: Clinical Reference Laboratory in Lenexa increases testing

One Kansas City metro facility has been hard at work processing COVID-19 samples, working with a different kind of sampling process that collects saliva rather than swabs. Lenexa-based Clinical Reference Laboratory has been testing around 6,000 saliva samples every day,… more

Thermo Fisher in Lenexa opens new site to help increase coronavirus testing

In an announcement made by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday, the Thermo Fisher Scientific in Lenexa has opened a new site will help increase the amount of statewide testing. Named the Viral Transport Media manufacturing site, the additional facility… more

Lenexa Logistics Centre could see second Amazon facility

In an effort to increase operations in Kansas City, Amazon.com Inc. hopes to soon add a second facility to an existing one located in Lenexa Logistics Centre. Outside of the Lenexa industrial park, Amazon has fulfillment center operations in five… more

Lenexa City Council to discuss mix-use project Tuesday

On Tuesday, the Lenexa City Council is set to vote on different measures regarding the potential construction of Watercrest South, a large, multiphase mixed-use project that would add to the city’s development. At tonight’s city council meeting, members could decide… more