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__________________________________________________________________________________ Dimensional Innovations
Together with cinema and entertainment, the company works in the pediatric healthcare, corporate, civic, museum, and transportation fields. With Kansas City being known as the sports architecture center of the world, sports is one of the main sectors in which it designs and builds exceptional experiences.“ From a capability standpoint, we begin as a design firm but we’ re also a custom fabricator – that means metal fabrication, along with wood and various other materials,” adds Tom.“ We have large-scale 3D printing capabilities, and large-format graphics and printing. When you take those capabilities along with our technology offerings, we really merge digital with physical.”
After becoming an open-book management company in 2018, which resulted in visible cultural improvements, DI decided to go down the employee stock ownership plan( ESOP) route.“ Sharing the results of the company with employees brought an ownership mentality across the entire business,” says Tucker.“ It convinced us that an ESOP would be the right long-term fit for us. We officially became an ESOP at the beginning of 2026. We know it will have a big impact over time; it’ s still in the early days for us, but the big idea is that employeeowners create profits through their hard work. There are numerous ESOPs in the Kansas City region, and we’ ve seen the incredible effect it can have.”
Tom adds:“ We see a real path for growth here. I think there are many other manufacturing and technology companies out there that would like to become part of an ESOP. We believe we’ ve created a vehicle that will allow others to join us, while also allowing us to continue diversifying.”
In conjunction with the truly impressive Raiders stadium is another of DI’ s largest and
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