|
 |
CONSTRUCTION
/ DEVELOPMENT
|
American
Water Works to Locate National Customer Service Center at Alton
Center Business Park
|
American
Water Works is moving in to 42,551 square feet of
office space in the former warehouse at Alton Center
Business Park. Clark Properties is the developer,
with designer/bulder Clayco Construction Co. handling
the renovation.
|
|
American Water Works Co. Inc., the largest publicly traded water
service provider in the U.S., is locating its new national customer
service center at the Alton Center Business Park in downtown Alton,
Ill. Clayco Construction renovated the Alton Center I building for
multi-tenant use. Approximately 400,000 square feet is available
for lease. Scheduled to move in this month, American Water Works
is leasing 42,551 square feet in the Alton Center I building at
1610 Discovery Parkway.
Based in Voorhees, N.J., American Water Works expects to employ
325 people at the customer service center when full staffing is
achieved. The center will handle service calls, billing and collections
for the company’s 10 million customers in 23 states including Illinois-American
Water Co. and Missouri-American Water Co.
Alton Center is the redevelopment of the former Owens-Illinois Inc.
glass bottle plant that closed in 1992. The 153-acre site has the
capacity to host more than one million square feet of new and renovated
office, retail, warehouse and high-tech manufacturing space. The
business park is accessible to the Mississippi River and has service
from both Norfolk Southern Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad.
Because Alton Center is located within a state enterprise zone,
American Water Works qualifies for exemptions from taxes on utility
usage and sales tax on building materials used in the construction.
The water company is also receiving a grant from the Illinois Department
of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) through it Linked Development
Grant Program for capital costs associated with infrastructure needs.
Alton Center developer, Clark Properties of St. Louis, projects
a variety of tenants will be drawn to Alton Center. Joining Clark
Properties in the marketing of Alton Center is Alton-based T.L.
Prehn Properties Inc.
Downtown Historic Renovation Earns Award
|
The Hamilton-Brown building is now home to Welsch,
Flatness & Lutz, as well as four other St. Louis
organizations. Its historic renovation earned an
Award of Excellence 2000 from the Society of Office
and Industrial Realtors.
|
|
An early 1900s downtown building, which started as the box manufacturing
facility for the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, has a new life as
home to commercial insurance agency Welsch, Flatness & Lutz Inc.
The renovation of the seven-story, 50,000-square-foot building was
a complete “gut-rehab,” with interior walls removed to expose heavy
timber columns, beams and brickwork. The project included renovation
of the adjacent parking lot for the building’s tenants.
The year of work has paid off in more than one way for the project
team, which earned the Society of Office and Industrial Realtors
(SIOR) Award of Excellence 2000 for projects under $6 million. The
honored team is comprised of The Lawrence Group and The Lawrence
Group Colors as designers, Paric Corp. as general contractor, and
Allegiant Bank as lender.
There were 10 nominees in the under $6 million category. The Hamilton-Brown
building, located at Olive and 21st Street in the Locust District
of downtown St. Louis, was the only historic renovation of the three
finalists. Landmarks Association of St. Louis Inc. also honored
the renovation earlier in 2000 as one of 11 projects to receive
their “Most Enhanced Awards for 2000.”
Welsch, Flatness & Lutz purchased the Hamilton-Brown building in
1999 for $900,000. The company invested more than $4 million in
the building renovation that was completed in May 2000. With more
than 50 employees, Welsch, Flatness & Lutz occupies about half of
the building. The remaining upper four floors have been leased to
St. Louis for Kids; The Whitaker Foundation; Frank, Dolan and Mueller;
and the St. Louis Minority Business Council.
R.G. Brinkmann Constructing New Headquarters for Taylor-Morley
Homes
|
R.
G. Brinkmann expects a summer 2001 completion of
the Taylor-Morley homes headquarters in Chesterfield
|
|
B.G. Brinkmann Construction Co. is targeting a summer 2001 completion
for a new $4.7 million office building to serve as the headquarters
of Taylor-Morley homes. The homebuilder will occupy more than one-third
of the three-story, 60,000-square-foot building at 17107 Chesterfield
Airport Road. With an expanded facility, Taylor-Morley will offer
a full-service design center for its customers on the first floor
and have its office headquarters on the second floor. The remaining
36,400 square feet will be leased to other tenants.
Leasing representative is Tim Balk of Follman Properties/ONCOR International.
The building is a joint venture of THF Realty and Taylor-Morley
Homes. Joining Brinkmann on the projects are TR,I Architekts, architect;
Wolverton & Associates, civil engineer; Ibrahim Engineering Corp.,
structural engineer; Wiegmann & Associates Inc., mechanical engineer;
and Briner Electric Co., electrical engineer.
Holland-Hinrichs Starts Construction on Meridian Centre
|
The
Meridian Centre One in Glen Carbon, Ill., is scheduled
for completion in June 2001
|
|
Holland-Hinrichs Construction Inc. has started construction on Meridian
Centre One, a 25,500-square-foot, three-story office building at
2246 Illinois Route 157 in Glen Carbon. Completion is scheduled
for June.
Meridian One Partners LLC is the developer. The partners are Scott
Carson, a financial planner; Dan Hurford of Hurford Architects;
Gordon Jakel of GKJ; and oral surgeons, Michael Hesterberg and Ed
Breda. All of the partners plan to locate their offices on the third
floor of the new building. The first and second floors are available
for lease and will be completed to suit tenants.
Newest Branch of St. Louis County Library to Open in 2002
|
Designed
by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, St. Louis County
Library's newest branch will be in Chesterfield.
The fan-shaped building will be 16,800 square feet.
|
|
St. Louis County Library’s newest building will be the Samuel C.
Sachs Branch, named for the father of Louis Sachs, chairman of Sachs
Properties. The location is the three-acre site at 16400 Burkhardt
Place in Chesterfield. Anticipated construction costs are approximately
$2 million. The library branch’s primary service area is Chesterfield,
western Creve Coeur, Clarkson Valley and northern Wildwood; however,
as a public facility it will be open to all.
Samuel Sachs was born in 1903 and came to Desloge, Mo., from Lithuania
in 1906. Growing up in a house with no modern conveniences such
as electricity and running water, Sachs went on to study electrical
engineering at Washington University and started Sachs Electric
Company. It is now the largest electrical contracting firm in the
St. Louis area.
Sachs Branch is the last branch funded by the 10-year building tax
passed in 1973. With funds raised from this tax and interest earned
in ensuing years, the library has been able to construct 11 branches
and remodel seven others. St. Louis County Library plans to announce
a general contractor by summer 2001.
Designed by Hellmuth, Obata, + Kassabaum Inc. Architects, the Sachs
Branch will be the 20th in the St. Louis County Library system.
The fan-shaped building of 16,800 square feet will be fully accessible
and feature a children’s area, computer lab, and public meeting
facilities in addition to a large reading room and reference area.
Gray Design and Clayco Win Commercial Building Honor
St. Louis-based Gray Design Group and Clayco Construction were on
hand in Detroit when their newly constructed project for Budco won
the Commercial Building magazine “New Construction 2000 Award” in
the design-build category.
Budco, a marketing and communications firm in Highland Park, Mich.,
required a unique, creative environment where staff and clients
could interact. The result is an interior “Main Street” concept
inside the 362,000-square-foot headquarters. The building features
a dialogue corridor, a place for people to meet and to communicate.
The design goes so far as creating a streetscape environment with
streetlights, park benches and simulated manhole covers on the floors.
The exposed concrete floor emphasizes the streetscape theme and
a barrel-vaulted skylight extends the entire length of the corridor
to provide natural lighting.
The exterior of the two-story facility is an architectural concrete
panel surrounding a steel frame with a color scheme of white accented
by gray banding. A combination of silver and black glass wraps the
office area.
The $16 million project is about one-third Class A office space
and the remainder is operations/distribution space, which accommodates
about 700 of Budco’s employees.
Other St. Louis companies assisting Clayco on the project included
Alper Audi, structural engineer, and Stock and Associates, civil
engineer.
Tarlton Creates A little Backyard Magic For Magic House
|
Tarlton
is constructing "Backyard Magic" for The
Magic House children's museum in Kirkwood. Opening
is scheduled for May 2001
|
|
General contracting and construction management firm, Tarlton Corp.
is constructing “Backyard Magic” for The Magic House, St. Louis
Children’s Museum in Kirkwood. The focus of Backyard Magic is a
1,500-square-foot outdoor education pavilion to be used for special
events, education programs and summer camps. The project also includes
a sculpture garden, an exhibit area and expanded parking.
The Magic House remains open during the work on the $1.2 million
project. Grand opening for Backyard Magic is scheduled for May 2001.
Tarlton has a special interest in The Magic House as the builder
that completed the renovations to transform an existing turn-of-the-century
Victorian house into a participatory museum. The Magic House opened
in 1979 and typically attracts more than 400,000 visitors annually,
making it one of the most visited children’s museums in the U.S.
TRiSTAR Purchases Headquarters of First Financial Planners in
Chesterfield
|
TRiStar
Business Communities has added this $6 million,
three-story office building at 15455 Conway Road
in Chesterfield to its institutional investment
portfolio
|
|
TRiSTAR Business Communities has purchased the headquarters of First
Financial Planners at 15455 Conway Road in Chesterfield. First Financial
has owned the building since 1996 and will continue to occupy its
28,000-square-feet of office suites under a long-term lease with
TRiSTAR.
Built in 1986, the First Financial building is a three-story, 50,000-square-foot
structure on a 2.6-acre site with visibility from Highway 40 and
parking for 187 vehicles.
Purchase of the $6 million First Financial building is part of TRiSTAR’s
expansion into the ownership and management of mature commercial
properties. Previously, TRiSTAR had concentrated on developing new
mixed-use, office and industrial parks. The company owns or controls
more than 3,000 acres of zoned land in Missouri and Illinois. Current
TRiSTAR projects include Park 370 in Hazelwood, a 125,000-square-foot
office building in Riverport, an 82-acre mixed-use development at
Winghaven, and the Gateway Commerce Center in Edwardsville, Ill.
|
|
|
|
|
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
