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Hilton
St. Louis Frontenac Undergoes $3 Million Renovation
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in Design has completed the first phase of the $3 million refurbishment
of the 264-room Hilton St. Louis Frontenac, including selected
guestrooms in the main room, the second floor Executive Club Lounge
and 2,000-square-foot presidential suite and recarpeting of the
ballrooms.
The
hotel's stately two-story lobby with its twin winding staircases
and mezzanine overlook received new furnishings, fabrics, carpet
and paint to reinforce the Country French decor. The executive
club lounge is redecorated with all new furniture in the style
of a library/study. The nearby presidential suite is completely
renovated with new furniture, carpeting, wall coverings, fabrics
and accessories for a residential feel. In addition, each guestroom
and suite has two analog phone lines that allow guests to talk
on one phone and download computer data simultaneously. By year
end, half of the rooms will have 128 kilobytes-per-second access
to the Internet.
Paric
Builds Fourth Madison Warehouse Distribution Facility
Above:
Paric
Corp. built a new $5 million distribution center in Pacific, Mo.
for Madison Warehouse Corp. The 206,700-square-foot building is
the fourth distribution facility that Paric has built for Madison
in the past two years.
Paric
Corp. built its fourth distribution center in the past two years
for Madison Warehouse Corp., St. Louis' largest public warehouse
company. The latest project is a new $5 million, 206,700-square-foot
facility located on a 25-acre site in Pacific, Mo.
The
warehouse has 204,000-square-foot distribution zone and 2,700
square feet of office space. The beige building with chocolate
brown accent stripes is constructed of load-bearing tilt-up concrete
panels over a structural steel frame. The radio frequency-equipped
distribution area has 26-foot-high clear ceilings, 24 truck height
dock doors, two drive-in doors and 570 feet of dock space to service
rail. The Pacific building, which houses 10 employees, is used
to store large rolls of paper that are shipped on demand to retail
and wholesale outlets.
Founded
in 1917, Madison Warehouse currently owns and operates more than
2.5 million square feet of warehouse space locally. Previous Paric
projects include a 420,000-square-foot distribution center in
Wentzville and two new distribution buildings totaling 585,000
square feet in Fort Worth, Texas.
Keystone
Renovates Office, Warehouse for LINCO Research
Keystone
Construction Co. has begun design/build renovation of a building
for LINCO Research, a leading developer of assays to aid the needs
of scientists working in areas of diabetes and obesity research.
The
fast-track project includes remodeling of the existing offices
and transformation of the existing warehouse/manufacturing area
into laboratory space. LINCO Research also has purchased seven
acres adjacent to its existing 10,000-square-foot facility.
The
long-range goal of LINCO Research is to create a major corporate
campus in the Missouri Research Park. Phase I includes the recent
renovation and purchase of additional acreage. Phase II includes
construction of a lab and office facility attached to the newly
renovated facility. Keystone has designed a building for this
site to take advantage of the views of the lake and nature trails
that adjoin the property.
Recently
completed projects for Keystone include the new 70,000-square-foot
facility for Insight Technologies; a 42,000-square-foot Roland
Machinery, Inc. facility at Crossroads Industrial Center in Earth
City; and a 20,000-square-foot office/manufacturing facility for
King Safety Products and the 26,000-square-foot office/machine
shop for Southtowne Machining, Inc. in O'Fallon, Mo.
USF
Logistics Fills $15 Million Distribution Center in
St. Charles
lease for 393,000 square feet to USF Logistics, Inc. has enabled
Balke Brown Associates to fill the entire $15 million speculative
distribution center it initiated at Fountain Lakes Commerce Center
in St. Charles.
Balke
Brown completed the two buildings, which total 465,000 square
feet, in December. They are built on 25-acre tracts Balke Brown
purchased from MB Properties L.L.C, the development subsidiary
of Millstone Bangert, a St. Louis-based heavy and highway construction
company.
The
USF lease will free Balke Brown to execute an option to purchase
an additional 27 acres that adjoin its original tract at Fountain
Lakes. The new parcel can accommodate up to 630,000 square feet
of distribution space. Balke Brown plans to begin development
of the new phase, which carries an estimated completion value
of more than $20 million, later this year.
"The
quality of the infrastructure installed by MB Properties at Fountain
Lakes, its capacity for future development and its quick ingress
and egress to and from Missouri Route 370 worked in our favor
in the negotiations with USF," says Steve Brown, president of
Balke Brown. "Other positives were lower real estate taxes, less
traffic congestion on Route 370 compared to Interstate 70 and
the fact that Fountain Lakes is elevated above the 500-year flood
plain."
J.R.
Design Completes New Jones Company Headquarters
Above:
A
24-square-foot floor-inset rendition of The Jones Company logo
greets visitors at the builder's new headquarters in Chesterfield
Valley. The logo is executed in natural verde and bianco marble.
J.R.
Design Group, the commercial division of June Roesslein Interiors,
has completed a $1 million installation at the new 18,000-square-foot
headquarters of The Jones Company in Chesterfield Grove, a mixed-use
development off Chesterfield Airport Road in Chesterfield Valley.
Approximately 100 of the company's 600 employees are based at
the headquarters.
The
project is the second that J.R. Design has completed for Jones.
In 1995, the commercial designer handled the renovation and expansion
of the builder's previous 13,500-square-foot office at 13100 Manchester
Road.
June
Roesslein Interiors is a nationally recognized, full-service interior
design firm specializing in residential interiors and display
home merchandising.
McCarthy
Manages Construction of St. Louis County Memorial Park
Above:
McCarthy
is the construction manager of the $6 million St. Louis County
Memorial Park, which is scheduled for completion in September.
McCarthy
is managing construction of the $6 million St. Louis County Memorial
Park in Clayton. The new 1.9-acre, street-level park replaces
the existing 28-year-old, elevated plaza and will link the county
administration building, courthouse and the 7900 Forsythe annex
building within the county government center.
When
completed in September, the park setting will include fountains
and an open, grass amphitheater with benches and trees. Two monuments
will commemorate a firefighter and police officers who died in
the line of duty.
Along
with the park itself, the project involves the renovation of entrances
to the courthouse and administration buildings. Also a first-story
balcony and new entrance will be constructed for the annex building.
Subsoil
drainage, installation of storm sewers and waterproofing of the
tunnel also will be completed.
Landscape
architect is Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) of St. Louis
and demolition consultant is David Mason & Associates of St.
Louis. McCarthy has constructed several projects for St. Louis
County, including the $95 million St. Louis County Justice Center
in Clayton.
R.G.
Brinkmann Builds New Headquarters for IKON Office Solutions
R.G.
Brinkmann Construction Co. is the design/build general contractor
for a new $5 million, 65,000-square-foot office building for IKON
Office Solutions, a leading office technology company that plans
to move its St. Louis central district headquarters from Shrewsbury
to Chesterfield in October.
The
four-story structure, located at a prominent, heavily landscaped
4.3- acre site at 16253 Swingley Ridge Road, will consolidate
IKON's cur- rent operations in Shrewsbury and Earth City. IKON,
which employs 305 locally, expects to increase its sales force
by 15 to 25 percent by the end of the year. The new office will
house 175 employees involved with sales, administration and central
district operations.
The
exterior blends two-tone brown and tan brick with a profusion
of gray-tinted glass. Horizontal ribbon windows highlight the
main entrance and flank a four-story curtain wall of tinted glass.
Extensive glass elements also are incorporated into the curved
rear façade.
Brinkmann
used 30- to 40-foot fills of engineered rock to provide a found-ation
for sub-grade elevations. In addition, the company built 35-foot
retaining walls to support the building pad. A total of 57 piers
will be used to support the structure.
TRi
Architekts is the architect and J.R. Grimes Consulting Engineers
is the civil engineer on the project.
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