Construction of the final warehouse in the Whiteland Exchange Business Park is in the works, and the town council approved a hefty tax break for it.
Jones Development, of Kansas City, Missouri, asked the Whiteland Town Council for a 10-year real property tax abatement totaling $3.3 million to construct the fifth — and largest — building inside the Whiteland Exchange.
The warehouse will be 767,624 square feet, much larger than the Amazon facility, the park’s flagship tenant, which is 530,000 square feet.
Jones has received a few different tax abatements in the last few years to build out the master-planned business park. The last abatement, approved in October, totaled $1.08 million for the 179,000-square-feet Amcor Rigid Plastics building, said Norm Gabehart, former Whiteland town manager.
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Jones plans to invest more than $26 million in the fifth building, which does not have a tenant yet. During the life of the abatement, about $3.4 million will be paid in taxes, and $3.3 million will be abated.
