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CONSTRUCTION / DEVELOPMENT
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Murphy Company’s
Work at Children’s Hospital Earns Keystone Award
Above:
Murphy Company’s mechanical renovation of the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit at St. Louis Children’s Hospital earned a 2001 Project
of the Year Keystone Award from the Associated General Contractors
in the category of Specialty Contractor Project of $500,000 or less.
Murphy Co. received a 2001 Project of the Year Keystone Award from
the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis for the St. Louis
Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The category
was Specialty Contractor on a Project of $500,000 or less.
The design/build project involved demolition of old fixtures and
installation of new plumbing, mechanical and medical gas systems
for a renovation of the NICU. Construction had to proceed carefully
while the NICU was operational. Ninety percent of the work took
place around the premature and critically ill infants in the unit.
Murphy Co. is the 15th largest mechanical contracting firm in the
U.S. by Engineering News Record. The company’s average project
size for fiscal year 2001 was $231,000. In addition to its St. Louis
headquarters, Murphy has offices and fabrication facilities in Denver,
Colo.
Regency Centers Bring New Shopping Center to Ballwin
Olde Towne Plaza, located at the intersection of Manchester Road
and the newly relocated Ries Road, held the opening for its initial
anchor tenants for the holiday 2001 shopping season. Stein Mart
welcomed customers before Thanksgiving and Ultimate Electronics
opened its doors the first week of December. Lowe’s opened at Olde
Towne Plaza at the end of 2001. The balance of the center is scheduled
for completion in Spring 2002. The tenant mix will include Marshall’s
Home-Good, Starbucks, O’Charley’s Restaurant and Beauty-First.
Regency Centers, a national owner, operator and developer of grocery-anchored
shopping centers, made a commitment in the redevelopment of the
Olde Towne Plaza shopping center site, representing an investment
of $45 to $50 million.
A 287,000-square-foot shopping center, Olde Towne Plaza, is the
first St. Louis project for Regency to develop since the acquisition
of the Midland Group in 1998.
“The development included the demolition of 50 residential and commercial
structures, as well as the coordination of tenant relocations,”
says Daniel Fox, senior vice president of investments for the Midwest
region. “Due to topography, the site required approximately 500,000
cubic yards of fill, and the construction of a massive boulder retaining
wall system that was pre-engineered to bring the site up to an acceptable
elevation. Because the project included the relocation of Ries Road,
both water and electric mains had to be moved. The timing of this
work was critical due to the proximity of Ballwin Elementary, which
required a phased construction schedule and an extensive detour
plan.”
Regency Centers owns more than 260 retail properties totaling 28.8
million square feet located in high-growth markets throughout the
U.S.
Missouri Research Park Ended 2001 with New Construction and New
Tenants
Above:
Distribution Management Inc. is completing a 50,000-square-foot
corporate headquarters (right) near the LINCO Research Inc. building
(left), which added 22,000 square feet within the Missouri Research
Park. These were among five construction projects in the MRP during
2001.
The University of Missouri’s Research Park (MRP) entered into $1.3
million in ground leases and welcomed three new corporate tenants
during the 2001 calendar year. In addition, two MRP companies completed
expansions during the year.
New construction, renovation and expansion in the MRP for 2001 included:
- AG
Edwards Disaster Recovery DataCentre – renovation of an
existing production facility to create 120,000 square
feet for a technology center with back-up data and telecommunications
systems to support data processing and online client services.
- Distribution
Management Inc. (DMI) – a new 50,000-square-foot corporate
headquarters for more than 35 employees supporting the
distribution of computer supplies.
- LINCO
Research Inc. – renovation and expansion into a 22,000-square-foot
laboratory and headquarters facility for more than 30
employees assisting in diabetes and obesity research.
- Natoli
Engineering Inc. – construction of a new 40,000-square-foot
building to add Natoli’s existing two buildings in the
MRP. The company now has 125 employees in the MRP developing
and producing precision-tooled dies for manufacturers
in the pharmaceutical, storage battery and ceramics industries.
- Diagraph
Inc. – renovation of an existing manufacturing building
to become the corporate headquarters, research center
and production facility for approximately 100 employees.
A subsidiary of ITW, Diagraph produces automated marking,
coding and labeling systems.
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More than 250
acres within the MRP now have been developed with a total of more
than one million square feet. Fifteen companies and two federal
agencies now have facilities in the complex, including Nike IHM,
Zoltek, Novus International, the National Weather Service and the
FAA’s St. Louis TRACON facility.
Conrad Properties Opening Displays for Two Loft Projects
Above:
Interior of a new loft home display unit at Hi-Pointe, a development
of Conrad Properties in Richmond Heights, opened last fall.
Two display units are open at Hi-Pointe Lofts in Richmond Heights;
Summit Lofts in Creve Coeur is scheduled to have displays open this
spring. Both are projects of Conrad Properties headquartered in
Clayton.
Conrad opened Building I with the two display homes at Hi-Pointe
during the fall of 2001. When complete, Hi-Pointe will be a pair
of four-story buildings with underground parking and 56 condominiums.
The buildings will share a central courtyard and host two- and three-bedroom
condos that blend traditional loft aesthetics with amenities of
new construction. Hi-Pointe is the first loft-style development
built from the ground up in metro St. Louis.
A larger Conrad condominium project is taking shape at Summit Lofts.
The condo community will consist of four, four-story buildings clustered
around a central pavilion with a fitness center and outdoor swimming
pool. The buildings will share a 176-space parking garage. Buyers
have a choice of nine floor plans with up to three bedrooms and
more than 2,400 square feet of living space available.
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