KANSAS CITY—The suburbs of this city have long-held an advantage when it comes to attracting new office tenants. But, as reported in GlobeSt.com, the increasing popularity of downtowns, especially among younger workers and the high-tech companies that look to hire them, has also started to benefit Kansas City.

Sungevity, Inc. a provider of residential solar services, has just become the latest high-tech firm to select this city as the site for a significant new office space. Officials from the Oakland-based company say they will soon locate a new sales and service center in the central downtown area and will have a lease agreement later this year. They expect that this will mean about 595 new jobs here over the next five years.

“Kansas City's geographical location, depth of professional talent and inviting business climate make it the ideal location for our new sales and service center,” says Andrew Birch, chief executive officer of Sungevity. “Our future Kansas City-based staff will enable us to extend our best-in-class solar service offering to more people in more places.”

Sungevity studied several markets across the US before choosing Kansas City. Its operations here will employ a broad range of positions including sales and operations managers and trainers, solar sales consultants and design engineers. The company helps customers design and finance in-home solar energy.

“This year has set a record in job attraction for our regional KCADC partnership with 3,200 new jobs committed to our KC region,” says Bob Marcusse, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas City Area Development Council. “We are so proud to welcome Sungevity, its innovative people and 595 more jobs to our business community.”

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