LDS Church unloading even more Missouri land. What’s up in this former and future Zion?

Utah-based faith is selling 500-plus acres in the Kansas City area and more than 1,800 acres south of Independence, a key city in the faith’s yesterdays and tomorrows.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The exterior of Missouri's Kansas City Temple is seen from a distance in 2012. The Utah-based church is selling more than 500 acres in the Kansas City area and another 1,800 acres in nearby Lee's Summit.