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SubTropolis: The Massive Business Complex Buried Under Kansas City

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Bloomberg gives us a warm welcome and insider look into SubTropolis: The underground industrial park in an excavated mine below Kansas City, Mo. A great attracting for tenants with the lure of lower energy costs and cheap rents, Subtropolis was carved out of 270-million-year-old limestone. More than 1,000 people now spend their workdays in SubTropolis – a treasure trove of business activity housed in a mine the size of 140 football fields…

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