New hotel at Discovery Ridge, six more East Campus townhomes highlight June building permits.

A second hotel in the Odle’s Discovery development got the green light for construction in June. The city of Columbia’s office of Building and Site Development issued a building permit to Discovery Development LLC for construction of a four-story hotel — Tru Hotel — at 4401 S. Ponderosa St. 

The permit lists the hotel square footage at 55,486 and a valuation of $10.95 million. 

The city issued 97 permits with a combined valuation of $32.26 million in June. The Boone County office of Resource Management issued 71 permits with a combined valuation of $10.55. In total, the city and county issued 168 permits with a valuation of $42.81 million. 

The summary of the city-issued building permits includes: 

• Commercial addition: 2 permits, $3.43 million valuation. 
• Residential addition: 5 permits, $269,425. 
• Commercial alteration: 5 permits, $278,897. 
• Residential alteration: 9 permits, $475,674. 
• New commercial: 3 permits, $12.15 million. 
• Deck only: 11 permits, $161,835. 
• Re-roof: 24 permits, $709,203. 
• Single family detached: 30 permits, $12.92 million. 
• Solar system (residential): 1 permit, $17,250. 
• Townhouse: 6 permits, $1.85 million. 

In addition to the Odle group’s new hotel, other highlights of the city’s June building permit report include: 

A 12,986 square foot addition to Battle Elementary School, 2600 Battle Avenue, to complete the originally planned prototype elementary school footprint. Reinhardt Construction Co. LLC is the contractor for the $3.2 million project. 

A commercial shell building — common name Springcreek Building #2 — at 4101 W. Vawter School Rd. The building will be 5,872 square feet with a valuation of $947,155. Kreutzer Construction of Columbia is the contractor. 

A $250,000 reroofing permit for 1205 University Avenue, apartment 442. The contractor is Rapid Commercial Roofing LLC of Troy, Missouri. 

Six new townhouses are joining the roughly dozen that are already under construction in the East Campus neighborhood. All six are being built at 1611 University Avenue in the Fyfer Subdivision. Five of the townhouses will be 2,375 square feet, each with a valuation of $324,967. The sixth townhouse will be 1,795 square feet with a valuation of $226,543. 

The top dollar single-family home getting a building permits in June will be in the Creek’s Edge Development off Stonington Court. Hemme Construction LLC is the contractor for the $824,317 home with 5,909 square feet. 

Boone County’s building permit summary for June includes: 

• Single family residential: 20 permits, $7.8 million valuation. 
• Other nonresidential: 6 permits, $866,750. 
• Other structures: 10 permits, $491,717. 
• Residential additions/alterations: 14 permits, $45,861. 
• Nonresidential additions/alterations: 1 permit, $1,400 
• Residential garages: 7 permits, $668,000. 
• Miscellaneous: 13 permits, $179,668. 

Some of the top-dollar permits included: 

• A single-family home at 11485 S. Hwy UU, valued at $1.34 million. The general contractor is Tompkins Construction. A 750-square-foot covered deck is part of the 7,214 square foot project. 
• Thom Construction LLC is the builder of a single-family home at 11607 N. Varnon School Rd. in Hallsville. The 6,359-square-foot home lists a valuation of $721,000. 
• Show Me Community Services got a building permit for an adult day care at 222 Elizabeth Street in Hallsville. The permit shows a valuation of $645,000 for a 4,200 square foot project. The permit did not list the contractor. 

The Boone County building permit report for June 2023 recorded 125 permits with a valuation of $20.43 million, roughly double the valuation of the June 2024 permit total. The difference comes from a commercial permit for $7.2 million issued for the Hallsville School district last June. That project for a building addition and track entailed 15,300 square feet.