CONCRETE & ASPHALT
IN LENEXA, KS.

Lenexa's first planned industrial park sits at the I-35 and I-435 interchange, and it got its start when a site was picked there for a major Ford distribution center. By late 2021 the Lenexa Logistics Centre, with access to I-35, I-435 and K-10, was reported at more than three million square feet of logistics space across three parks. The city's 2024 comprehensive plan predicts a shift toward non-office business parks. At a distribution building, the concrete that gets hit hardest is usually out back, in the dock aprons and the lanes trailers use to reach them. We pour that work in sections around your dock schedule so trailers still have a way in, and the sections can be spread across more than one budget year when paying for it all at once doesn't work.

By acreage, the biggest soils in central and eastern Lenexa on the USDA survey are Chillicothe silt loam and Oska-Martin silty clay loams. Both carry the survey's lowest rating for local roads and streets, with shrink-swell, low strength and frost action listed as the reasons. Oska is a moderately deep soil over limestone, with rock somewhere between about 20 and 40 inches down, so a deeper base cut can run into it. The map also changes over short distances. Near the corner of 95th and Lackman it shows Grundy silt loam, which can be wet as shallow as a foot down from January through April, and a few hundred yards southwest, on the Kansas Commerce Center side, it turns to Chillicothe and Oska-Martin. House footings in Lenexa have to go at least 36 inches below finished grade, and pavement never gets that kind of depth, so its protection is a base that drains and a subgrade that isn't left sitting wet.

Lenexa started its Rain to Recreation stormwater program in response to large-scale flooding in 1998, and the city requires a permit to build within a floodplain. Along the creek bottoms the survey maps Kennebec silt loam, which it lists as occasionally or frequently flooded, so we look hard at where water leaves a lot before pricing pavement near a channel. Census estimates put the median Lenexa home at 1992, and more than 10,000 of the city's houses were built in the 1970s and 80s. A driveway poured with one of those older houses and never replaced is 35 to 55 years old by now, and much of the city sits on the same high shrink-swell soils as the business parks. Lenexa is roughly 40 to 50 minutes from Grain Valley, and traffic decides where in that window a trip lands.