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CONSTRUCTION
STARTS FOR DELMAR GARDENS IN O'FALLON
A new project for Delmar Gardens Enterprises is underway in O’Fallon,
Mo. Located at 7068 Highway N, the 120-bed facility is the first
phase of a 240-bed skilled nursing center.
Gray Design Group designed the 93,000-square-foot complex. Paric
Corporation is the general contractor. Joining Paric on the project
are MEP Engineers Inc., Clayton Engineering Co., and ABS Consulting.
The $12 million project includes a Specialized Care Unit for Alzheimer’s
patients and an infant/toddler center and preschool. When completed
the complex will house a complete therapy department, five dining
rooms, a cinema with surround sound, a chapel, a computer lab, library,
billiard room and styling salon.
Delmar
Gardens’, 93,000-square-foot complex is underway in
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| EXPANSION
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ANHEUSER-BUSCH
EMPLOYEES' CREDIT UNION
A major
remodeling and expansion of the Anheuser-Busch Employees’
Credit Union has provided a dynamic look, spurred marketing
activities and expanded member service options for Missouri’s
largest employee-based credit union. The project included
a renovation of the existing headquarters building, combined
with the construction of a two-story, 32,000-square-foot addition.
St. Louis-based HBE Financial Facilities designed and built
the expansion and remodel project. Currently, the institution
serves 75,000 members with 22 branch locations throughout
the U.S.
Clarence Steele, HBE senior design architect, describes the
connection of the existing building to the new addition as
a “dramatic 21¼2-story atrium designed to create a pleasing
transition space for members and employees.” The atrium offers
skylights, along with glass rails on the stairway and a connecting
bridge. Features of the new addition include an expanded call
center, a multi-purpose training room, administrative support
offices and an expanded parking area.
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HOLLAND COMPLETES DMI HEADQUARTERS AT MISSOURI
RESEARCH PARK
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Holland
Construction Services was the contractor for the Distribution
Management Inc. headquarters at Missouri Research
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Distribution Management Inc. (DMI) has moved into a new $7 million
headquarters facility at Missouri Research Park in Weldon Spring,
Mo. Holland Construction Services, formerly Holland-Hinrichs Construction
Inc., recently completed the 48,000-square-foot facility designed
by Lighthouse Architects.
“We had outgrown our building in Chesterfield Valley, but we needed
to operate from a high-tech, Class A building that gave us the presence
and resources to grow,” explains Tom Fleming, president of DMI,
which serves independent dealers who sell computer and imaging supplies.
Located on a five-acre site at 5 Research Drive, the two-story building
offers views of the business park and surrounding countryside. DMI
occupies 39,000 square feet of the building, with the remaining
9,000 square feet being offered for lease.
Joining Holland and Lighthouse on the project were Alper Audi Inc.,
structural engineer; Loomis Associates, landscape architect; and
SCI Engineering, geo-technical engineer.
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NATIONAL
WOOD FLOORING ASSOCIATION
TRIPLES THE SIZE OF NEW HEADQUARTERS
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 ARCO
Construction Company is building a new $2.15 million headquarters
for the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) in Chesterfield.
The new 20,000-square-foot office and training facility will
almost triple the size of the organization’s previous headquarters
in Ellisville. Located on a 2.8-acre site at 111 Chesterfield
Industrial Boulevard, the new building is scheduled for completion
next month.
With a membership that doubled in the past five years, NWFA
needed to expand both office and training space. Project architect,
Gray Design Group, created a bleacher-seating education area
in a brightly colored warehouse area for demonstrations and
hands-on training. An adjacent classroom seats 80.
Subcontractors on the project include: ABS Consulting, structural
engineer; Voltz Inc., civil engineer; SystemAire Inc., mechanical
engineer; RJP Electric; Fire Sprinklers Inc.; and Joseph H.
Beetz Plumbing Co. Inc.
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MINDLIN
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GIVES
NEW LOOK TO OPTICAL STORES
The
newly-expanded EXO store in the Saint Louis Galleria.
St. Louis-based architecture studio, Suttle Mindlin, is designing
a new line of eyewear retail stores for Erker Optical, named
EXO. Erker Optical launched its first EXO retail-merchandising
unit at the Saint Louis Galleria last year. Based on the overwhelming
success of its first location, the company opened its second
retail outlet in Las Vegas. In September, the Saint Louis
Galleria EXO store expanded, offering more retail items.
Over the next year, Erker Optical plans to launch additional
EXO stores throughout the nation with the next location in
Denver. Suttle Mindlin is designing each of the new EXO locations.
When designing the new EXO retail stores, Suttle Mindlin paid
particular attention to the product, the intended image and
the targeted consumer audience. Natural materials like concrete,
cracked glass and perforated metal are integrated into the
design. A feeling of movement was created through fractured
metal shelving units and floating “display objects.” To achieve
a feeling of being outside, Suttle Mindlin incorporates colored
lights that project off white glass and a white concrete floor,
the colors gradually changing throughout the day.
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FORMER REFINERY SITE BEING TRANSFORMED INTO
BUSINESS PARK AND WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
Once considered an unusable industrial brownfield, the former Amoco
Refinery site in Wood River, Ill. is getting a new life as an office
and retail park with the added bonus of a wildlife sanctuary.
The development at the 840-acre site near downtown Wood River has
been named American Commons. The first phase will be a six-acre
office and retail park. Plans include additional areas to be certified
for new development, including 200 acres of riverfront property.
Remaining land will continue as a safe refuge for wildlife. Known
as Deer Park, the area attracts hawks, waterfowl and deer, as well
as other animals. The habitat includes an observatory and an ADA-compliant
walking trail.
In August, Illinois EPA director Renee Cipriano joined representatives
of BP (current owner of the refinery site), the federal EPA, the
City of Wood River and Triad Industries to unveil the results of
a nationally recognized pilot program to rehabilitate such industrial
brownfields for new uses.
Located one-half mile south of Sixth Street and Route 143, Standard
Oil Company purchased the property for a refinery in 1906. The refinery
operated there until 1981. During that time Standard became part
of Amoco, and other Amoco businesses continued on the site into
the mid-1990s.
Current owner of Amoco and the former refinery property is BP. Joe
Naccache, manager of refining for BP says the company has invested
more than $70 million in remediating the old refinery site and will
provide necessary resources for completing the project.
Rick Jones, president of Triad Industries, the company performing
the remediation work; and RLJ LLC, the development company for American
Commons; says, “We anticipate retail and office development on the
perimeter of the site to take advantage of the heavy traffic on
Route 143 and the proximity to Route 3, Route 111, I-255 and downtown
Wood River.”
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