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Wed May 12, 2021 - Midwest Edition #10
Lori Tobias â CEG Correspondent
Fahteema Parrish and her company, Parrish and Sons Construction Co., is playing a key role in the Kansas City International Airport project.
(Kamiasha Tyner of Dignified Digital photo)
At 1 million sq. ft. and with a budget of $1.5 billion, the new
Kansas City Airport is impressive enough, but add in a female construction workforce larger than most any in the United States and you ve got a project in a league of its own. When Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate was selected as the developer of the new $1.5 billion Kansas City International airport, it promised the project would reach historic and transformative levels of diversity, spurring economic growth for minority and women-owned businesses in Kansas City, said Geoff Stricker, Edgemoor senior managing director. We have delivered on that promise. The number of women in the project s construction workforce is three times the national averag