Project Ownership and Project Representation

Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society is the Owner of Carefree Industrial Park. The firm, founded in 1890, Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society is a Fraternal Life Insurance Company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Woodmen is a significant provider of life insurance and investment products throughout the United States and is rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, which is a testament to Woodmen’s financial strength and outstanding business practices.

The firm has extensive real estate holdings (exceeding $200,000,000); Carefree Industrial Park is key asset within their investment portfolio. Woodmen provides all of the operating capital for the project, as well as funds for the development of new buildings within the park. This is important given the state of the capital markets. With the availability of Woodmen’s capital, this allows for the Developer (LS Commercial) to have ready access to development capital for the construction of new facilities on both a speculative basis and for Build-To-Suit projects within the park.

Company Overview and Services

LS Commercial Real Estate, Inc. is a full service Commercial Real Estate Brokerage, Management and Development Company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The firm was founded in 1990 and has been fortunate to provide professional real estate services to a wide range of international, national, regional and local companies. Our commercial real estate services include; Property Sales and Leasing, Property Management, Asset Management, Valuation, Development and Consultation. LS Commercial represents a portfolio of commercial properties in excess of 9,000,000 square feet with a portfolio value exceeding $200,000,000.00. The firm is active with projects located throughout the Midwest.

The key strength of the firm is our outstanding staff. The average experience level within the firm is 10 years and many of our staff members have over 15+ years of experience in the field. This is significant in the fast paced corporate world and it is unlikely to find service providers who have consistent staff in place over the long term. LS Commercial maintains a staff is highly experienced staff members who have been with the company for the long term which allows our clients to have a sense of confidence that they will be working with a proven service provider who understands their business and can provide professional services over the long term.

LS Commercial is also a significant owner and developer of commercial property. This experience as a property owner and developer, allows the firm to provide this knowledge and property ownership experience to our client base. A property owner or investor who is pursuing a property acquisition, owns a portfolio of commercial real estate or needs assistance in repositioning a single property or multiple properties within their portfolio, finds this is a significant benefit. LS Commercial is not a typical commercial real estate brokerage company. In addition to providing outstanding commercial real estate services, we are commercial property owners and provide that knowledge and experience to our clients as well which is highly valued by our clients.

Management, development and brokerage highlights…

LS Commercial represents and provides commercial real estate services for a portfolio of retail and industrial properties in excess of 9,000,000 square feet with a value exceeding $200,000,000.00. These services include; property sales and leasing, property management, asset management, development, maintenance and consultation. Notable clients include Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, USAA Real Estate Company, AGCO Corporation, Hallmark Cards, Gilmour Group (A Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Company), Kansas City Star (McClatchy Corp.), Michelin Tire, Farmland Foods, The Coleman Company, Sherwin Williams, Papa Murphy’s Pizza, Ply Gem Corporation, Conmaco Rector, Helena Chemical Company, Pratt Industries, Alliant Techsystems and Crowley Furniture just to name a few.

LS Commercial is also a leading developer of retail and industrial properties throughout the Midwest and nationally. One of our more notable current projects is a joint venture development project (with USAA Real Estate Company) which is called Midwest Commerce Center located in Gardner, Kansas. Midwest Commerce Center is a 155 acre premier business park that represents a $160,000,000.00 investment in the Gardner community. The park is master planned to include over 2.5 million square feet of premier distribution space. The first building has been completed which is a 1,107,000 square foot state-of-the-art national distribution center built for specifically for The Coleman Company who is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

Another notable project is Carefree Industrial Park which is a premier subsurface business park. LS Commercial provides brokerage, property and asset management and development services for this project. The project contains over 4,000,000 square feet of premier industrial space and LS Commercial recently completed a 208,000 square foot facility built on a speculative basis. The project is owned by a Life Insurance Company. The park continues to expand and there is over 1,500,000 square feet of additional space which will be developed into premier industrial space for future tenants.

Our mission statement is simple:

Provide consistent and professional commercial real estate services, communicate with our clients, be attentive to our clients needs, maintain a highly experienced staff and always put our client’s needs first.