Westcott: Exclusive: Developer plans to put charge in dormant battery plant site

The Lee's Summit City Council on Thursday advanced a plan to reassign development rights for a key 85-acre site to a California partnership proposing a 1 million-square-foot light industrial park there. Under the plan, rights to develop the land northeast of Missouri Highway 291 and SE 16th Street would be reassigned from Exergonix Inc. to Westcott Investment Group. City staff on Thursday was directed to prepare documents detailing the reassignment plan, which the City Council is scheduled to vote...