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PARIC
COMPLETES CHAMINADE PROJECT
Students at Chaminade College Preparatory School have more than
100,000 square feet of new and renovated space on their Creve Coeur
campus. The centerpiece of the $6.6 million expansion is a new library
and technology center. Also as a result of this project, Chaminade’s
largest capital improvement, middle- and high school students will
have separate classroom space.
Designed by Hastings & Chivetta Architects Inc. and built by Paric
Corp., the improve-ments consist of a new three-level 76,613-square-foot
addition to the west wing and atrium of the signature Chaminade
Hall building. The project also included renovating 25,200 square
feet of space in Chaminade Hall.
In addition to creating 16 middle school classrooms and additional
administrative offices, the new construction features:
- Doubling
the size of the library with a new 8,500-square-foot facility;
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A technology center with computers, phone and data lines,
video and teleconference equipment;
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An expanded student dining room and
commons area;
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A fitness and weight training area and wrestling practice
facility.
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The renovation
component of the project transformed nine small classrooms and the
previous library into four large classrooms, three administrative
offices, a reception area, and a theatre.
TRANSFORMED WAREHOUSE PROVIDES LAB SPACE FOR
WYETH BIOPHARMA
 Flad
& Associates designed this addition
and renovation for Wyeth BioPharma
to use as laboratory space, as
well as warehouse space. The curvilinear
theme of the renovated warehouse
continues inside through the use
of curved metal ceilings that
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$230 million expansion at Wyeth BioPharma’s
campus in Berkeley, Mo., includes a building
renovation and addition. Originally used as
a warehouse, Flad & Associates’ architects redesigned
the building to function both as a laboratory
and a warehouse, supporting functions in the
adjacent production building. The campus also
received a new front door image by the canopy
and lobby elements.
Flad & Associates, recognized among the top
100 interior design firms in the nation by Interior
Design magazine, located the building’s entrance/lobby
where the distance between the warehouse and
the front of the building was least. A small
portion of the building was built out near this
area, to provide an efficient double-loaded
corridor throughout the facility, and to minimize
the distance of the offices from the laboratories
that they serve. This build-out also provided
the opportunity to develop a canopy, which defines
the entrance and repeats themes found in the
existing building, such as radiused glass block
walls, but expanded upon them through the use
of patterned glass and a curved metal roof.
Joining Flad on the project is McCarthy Construction,
construction manager/general contractor; SSE
Engineers, structural engineer; Clark, Richardson
& Biskup, mechanical, electrical, plumbing engineers;
and John Paulauskis, acoustics.
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VATTEROTT COLLEGE HEADQUARTERS COMPLETE
With
the completion of Vatterott College’s new corporate
headquarters, the St. Ann campus increased by 50 percent.
The project included construction of the new building
and exterior renovations to an adjacent building with
a courtyard between them and a new parking lot that
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St. Louis-based Vatterott College has completed construction of
their new corporate headquarters in St. Ann. The 18,000-square-foot
building on St. Charles Rock Road also includes some classrooms
for the college’s St. Ann campus. This expansion is the fourth building
on the property. An adjacent college building also underwent exterior
renovations as part of the overall project. Vatterott’s Computer-Aided
Drafting (CAD) students were able to participate in the project
by preparing some of the architectural drawings.
ALL-NEW AMERISTAR ST. CHARLES CASINO OPENS
The
new expanded Ameristar St. Charles Casino offers twice
as many innovative dining, entertainment and gaming
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The new Ameristar St. Charles Casino opened to guests in August
touting the largest selection of slot machines and gaming tables
in the metropolitan St. Louis market. Ameristar St. Charles’ $360
million facility replaced the previous existing operations at the
property just north of Interstate 70 in St. Charles.
This expansion features an all-new, 130,000 square feet of gaming
space with 3,300 slot and video poker machines, and 95 gaming tables,
including a live poker room.
Guests enter the facility after traveling across an elevated roadway
to a porte cochere with a design from wharf, train station and pavilion
structures of the 1800s. A cobblestone path leads guests from the
“town square” to a “Main Street” area. Inspired by the 1880s architecture
of the nearby historic St. Charles River Port District, Main Street’s
building facades are detailed with clapboard sidings, framed windows,
decorative metal railings, porches and balconies.
The non-gaming amenities at Ameristar St. Charles include seven
dining and entertainment venues, a retail gift shop, and a video
game arcade. Total restaurant seating is 1,580, more than four times
the seats of the previous facility.
“When we acquired the St. Charles property, we made a commitment
to bring a premier gaming and entertainment destination to the St.
Charles community,” says Craig H. Neilsen, chairman, president and
CEO. “With our recent design modifications, the casino will now
be almost double the size of what we originally planned, and the
property will offer more than twice as many innovative dining and
entertainment options.”
WINGHAVEN ADDING BOARDWALK MARKET PLACE
McEagle
Development is building Boardwalk Market Place, a
pedestrian-oriented collection of shops at their WingHaven®
development. |
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Quaint storefronts lining the street- scape are emerging this fall
at WingHaven® as McEagle Development introduces a collection of
pedestrian-oriented shops to its mixed-use development. Adjacent
to phase three of the residential portion of WingHaven®, Boardwalk
Market Place will offer 26,000 square feet of retail space, with
individual spaces between 1,100 and 8,000 square feet.
Forum Architecture and Interior Design of Florida, known for its
“new urbanism,” designed Boardwalk Market Place. The retail center
will have four buildings, each clad in a different shade of brick,
with staggered elevations.
“Boardwalk Market Place helps bind WingHaven® as a community,” says
Mark Branstetter, senior vice president of McEagle. “The architecture
is on a human scale that evokes memories of yesteryear America,
when neighbors visited as they shopped.”
McEagle estimates 1,500 homes will be within walking distance of
the retail center and projects 50,000 people will live within three
miles of the area by 2006. Trilogy Real Estate is marketing the
retail space.
SUTTLE MINDLIN SELECTED AS ARCHITECTS FOR
DOWNTOWN KIRKWOOD DEVELOPMENT
Kirkwood’s
new downtown development emphasizes community harmony
between business and residential revitalization.
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Georgetown-style town homes, upscale apartments, a landscaped plaza
framed by attractive shops, cafés and restaurants with manicured
promenades linking retail, residential and office areas…This is
the vision of architects David Suttle and Michael Mindlin for a
seven-acre development in the heart of Kirkwood.
The principals of Suttle Mindlin expressed the importance of community
harmony to this development while simultaneously attracting new
businesses to the area, which prompted developers MLP Investments
to select Suttle Mindlin’s architecture and planning studio for
the Station Plaza assignment.
The development is aimed at revitalizing a prime section of downtown
Kirkwood once anchored by a Target store that expanded and moved
to a shopping center in another part of Kirkwood. Station Plaza
will offer 24,000 square feet of retail area; 53,000 square feet
of commercial space; and 206 residential units positioned around
a landscaped plaza.
S.M. WILSON OPENS EMPLOYEE TRAINING CENTER
To accommodate the needs of their growing business and workforce,
S.M. Wilson & Company has opened a new employee- training center
adjacent to its St. Louis headquarters at 2185 Hampton Avenue. The
project required a complete rehabilitation of an existing building
on the site.
“Moving the training center out of our headquarters’ lower level
addressed the need for more space. Now we have more room for training
and more office space for our growing staff,” says Scott Wilson,
president.
The 5,000-square-foot facility features a reception area, conference
room, breakout session area, office space and an 80-seat classroom.
Uses for the training areas include regular classes on safety procedures
and OSHA regulations, billing procedures, project management software,
contract language, and other construction issues. The company also
holds quarterly “lunch and learn” sessions to keep employees updated
on benefits, computer software, sales and marketing.
CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY FOR
THIRD
PHASE OF MURPHY PARK
 The
Murphy Park development has introduced a new generation of
mixed income housing to St. Louis. Construction has begun
for the third and final phase of the George L. Vaughn Residences
at Murphy Park.
With the completion of Phase III’s 126 units, the
Murphy Park neighborhood will have a total of 413 units. Included
are 33 percent market rate apartments with the balance as
tax credit units, with 54 percent available for public housing
eligible families. Phase III apartments are expected to be
available in March 2003.
McCormack Baron & Associates is the developer for the project
located on the site of the former Vaughn Towers. Units range
from two- to six-bedrooms and include townhouses, detached
homes, and some handicap accessible garden apartments. This
development is spread over a larger area than high-rise public
housing of the 1950s and 1960s. The result is a neighborhood
feeling of two-story buildings with a variety of styles, materials
and colors.
In conjunction with the groundbreaking for Phase III held
earlier in the summer of 2002, McCormack Baron and the St.
Louis Housing Authority dedicated a neighborhood park in honor
of Janet B. Wood, a 29-year employee of the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development. Her work was instrumental
in the realization of Murphy Park Phase I. The Janet B. Wood
Park is located within the neighborhood at 20th and Biddle
streets.
This new neighborhood has been possible through a pioneering
public-private partnership, which includes the St. Louis Housing
Authority, Missouri Housing Development Commission, U.S. Depart-ment
of Housing and Urban Development, the City of St. Louis, and
Fannie Mae, as well as private contributors such as The Enterprise
Foundation, The Kemper Foundation, Edward Jones, Commerce
Bancshares, and US Bank.
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