The 30 largest commercial real estate firms in Kansas City had $11.43 billion in combined local transactions last year. The Kansas City Business Journal's 2026 ranking includes transactions in the counties of Jackson, Ray, Platte, Cass and Clay in Missouri; and Johnson, Wyandotte and Leavenworth in Kansas. Information on The List was obtained through Kansas City Business Journal research or supplied by individual firms through questionnaires that KCBJ could not independently verify. Firms were ranked by the dollar volume of local transactions. For information about this and other Kansas City Business Journal Lists, please contact Data Reporter Elizabeth Yost at eyost@bizjournals.com or 816-777-2202.

Rock Chalk Park's soccer stadium and training facilities beat out other sites. The location puts Algeria minutes from Kansas City International Airport.

Erise IP's trademark team already had a strong national reputation, but it will grow with the addition of seven experienced people from Hovey Williams.

The Negro Leagues Baseball and American Jazz museums have been neighbors since 1997. They'll soon separate a few blocks apart with future expansions in the historic 18th & Vine Jazz District.

The $4 billion battery plant in De Soto now churns out half a million lithium-ion cells daily, but that's just a fraction of what the plant eventually will produce when it reaches full capacity.

Most companies using artificial intelligence tools have not yet seen a boom in productivity — but executives remain optimistic about the technology.