Kansas City Confronts Mostly Vacant & Haunted Cerner Buildings

The ghosts of middle-class tech jobs still haunt Kansas city. 

Here's a glimpse at ongoing and terrifying local layoffs along with empty ghost buildings that serves as home to so many broken dreams . . . And, maybe, a reminder about the perils of taxpayer subsidized corporate development schemes. 

Check-it . . .

"Oracle consolidated all of its employees into what is now the sole, 1.6 million-square-foot Oracle Cerner Innovations Campus in South Kansas City. Although there are people working at the 87th Street and Hillcrest Road campus, by many accounts the numbers aren’t high, with most employees working from home.

"At one point there were plans to build even more office towers, retail space and data centers at the Innovations campus. Building pads, roads and light infrastructure, created just a few years ago, are overgrown with weeds yet still seem brand new. The Kansas City Fire Department Station 41 sits there all by itself, which is disturbing in a Twilight Zone kind of way."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

What's Going On With All The Empty Cerner Buildings?

After tech goliath Oracle Corp. purchased Cerner Corp. for $28.3 billion in 2022, the firm ceased operating two of its three main campuses.