Springfield property owner invests $1.4 billion into Branson West

Shirato has scheduled an 11 a.m. press conference on the development site, across from Metropolitan Bank on Highway 76, approximately two miles east of the Highway 13 junction.

Shirato will unveil plans for a $1.4 billion development that will create at least 429 jobs, he said.

“There are a lot of businesses in southwest Missouri that are going to be affected by this,” Shirato said this afternoon. He declined to comment further on details of the project.

Shirato owns the Vandivort Center, 305 E. Walnut, Shirato Parking Systems, 310 E. Walnut, and other downtown properties.

This is the second billion-dollar development slated for Taney County, after Argonaut Midwest broke ground on The Sanctuary in Hollister Sept. 22.

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