Will The New Panasonic Battery Plant Save This Kansas Village Or Kill It?

Originally built to house war plant workers in 1943, De Soto's Clearview Village has defied the odds for decades. But now with the new Panasonic EV battery plant moving next door, its future is once again uncertain.
On the outskirts of De Soto, Kansas, 70-year-old Wanda Riedhart wrenched open the wobbly aluminum door that scrapes the concrete pad at her home - a single-bedroom rental inside one of 164 concrete, barracks-like houses at Clearview Village.
Long in decline, the low-income neighborhood - a once thriving wartime community known for decades as Sunflower Village - was hurriedly built in 1943 to be “temporary housing” for some of the thousands of workers who flooded into rural Johnson County after Pearl Harbor. They came to work at the Sunflower Ordnance Works, built after the attack to become the era’s largest smokeless powder and propellant plant in the world.
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Unfortunately this project is going to kill that community.