Coil is building a Little General Store, Five Below is adding a second Columbia site.

The city of Columbia Building and Site Development office issued 116 building permits in May for work that includes a new Five Below discount store in the space off Conley Road previously occupied by Party City, and the long-awaited Clary-Shy Welcome Center at Columbia’s Agriculture Park.  

The Boone County Resource Management office issued 100 building permits that includes an $11 million Little General convenience store east of Columbia. Together, the city and county issued 216 building permits with an aggregate valuation of $57,174,633.  

Coil Construction is the general contractor for the Little General store being built at 652 N. Rangeline Rd. Details about the subcontractors for that project were not available in the county’s building permit report.  

The Five Below retail store at 21 Conley Road, Suite K, is a $250,000 alteration of a 12,174-square-foot area that will take up the former Party City space. Party City announced the nationwide closure of its entire store inventory in December, and the Columbia store closed in early February. Jackovic Construction Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the contractor for that project. The architect is Tricarico Architecture & Design of Wayne, New Jersey.  

The Clary-Shy Welcome Center at 1701 W. Ash St. will complement the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and the Columbia Farmers Market at the MU Health Care Pavilion at the city’s agriculture park. The welcome center is planned for 11,339 square feet at a cost of $1.92 million. Wright Construction Services of Columbia and Simon Oswald Architecture of Columbia are leading the work.  

The city issued 116 building permits with a total valuation of $29.7 million in May. The breakdown includes:  

• Residential addition: 6 permits, $329,727 valuation  

• Auxiliary Dwelling Unit (waived fees): 1 permit, $45,000  

• Commercial alteration: 9 permits, $2.5 million  

• Residential alteration: 14 permits, $1.3 million  

• Commercial demolition: 2 permits, no value  

• Commercial multi-family: 1 permit, $7.94 million  

• Commercial new: 4 permits, $5.02 million  

• Deck only: 6 permits, $97,786  

• Re-roof: 47 permits, $755,131  

• Residential demo: 1 permit, no value  

• Single family detached: 24 permits, $11.51 million  

• Solar photovaltaic system: 1 permit, $175,000  

Additional highlights of city-issued building permits in May include:  

Demolition of the Materials Recycling Facility at the city landfill located at 5390 Peabody Road. An EF1 tornado destroyed the facility on April 20, leading to the suspension of curbside recycling for the foreseeable future.  

Hercon Construction and Westhues Architecture LLC, both of Columbia, are heading a $1.55 million, 8,400 square foot project to build a new office and manufacturing building for ThermAvant Technologies at 6705 Stephens Station Road.  

JES Development is building a multi-family apartment at 4170 Bethel Street. Known as Gentry Estates III, the project is a three-story, fifty-unit active adult multi-family apartment building with various amenities including community rooms, fitness room, office, meeting room, and community laundry room. Fairway Construction Company Inc. of Springfield, Missouri, is the builder for the $7.94 million, 56,722 square foot structure.  

Cornerstone National Insurance Company at 19 S. Sixth St. is making repairs from water damage sustained last winter. Huebert Builders Inc. is providing restoration of damaged walls, roof, and interiors. The project’s valuation is $250,000, covering 5,200 square feet.  

Chicago Title at 111 S. Ninth St. Suite 230 is expanding into the vacant suite 250. CEMO Construction Company LLC is the builder. The project entails 2,076 square feet and has a valuation of $420,867.  

Central Methodist University in Fayette has an academic partnership with East Central College in Union that is leading to construction of the ECC Health Services Respiratory Lab at 1400 Forum Boulevard Suite 16. The builder is Integra Inc. of Saint Charles, Missouri. The $284,000 project involves renovation of an existing classroom that is being demolished for a new respiratory health hospital lab that mimics a hospital setting for training students.  

ABC Supply is adding 3014 Lemone Industrial Boulevard to its footprint. The building permit allows renovation of the existing office building, which previously housed CenturyLink, for a new product showroom, with selective demolition in warehouse areas. Little Dixie Construction Co. is the contractor for the 44,623 square foot, $800,000 project. ABC Supply also has a facility at 2708 Maguire Boulevard. The company is one of North America’s largest wholesale distributors of roofing supplies.  

The top-dollar single family homes on the May building permit report were both listed with $1.19 million valuations. One is being built off Tralee Lane with an owner contractor. The other is off Portrush Drive in Old Hawthorne North, and the builder is Dustin Bly. The low end of the single-family dwellings was a 1,300 square foot, $176,573 house off Oak Street in the Quinn and Conley subdivision. The builder is Note to Handyman LLC.  

Boone County’s building permit for May listed 100 permits with a total valuation of $27.5 million. By comparison, the total for May 2024 was 71 permits and a $10.71 million valuation.  

The May report breakdown includes:  

• Single family residential: 26 permits, $11.8 million  

• Modular/double wide: 1 permit, $250,000  

• Stores/mercantile building: 1 permit, $11 million  

• Other nonresidential: 4 permits, $75,000  

• Other structures: 14 permits, $1.34 million  

• Residential additions/alterations: 12 permits, $1.17 million  

• Nonresidential additions/alterations: 9 permits, $1.1 million  

• Residential garages: 11 permits, $560,789  

• Miscellaneous: 22 permits, $17,500  

Highlights include:  

Remodeling a distribution warehouse for EquipmentShare at 50 N. Rangeline Rd. The permit listed a valuation of $900,000, with EquipmentShare as the contractor.  

Single-family dwellings ranged in value from $1.3 million off West Dothage Road and a $125,000 home off East Sims Street in Centralia. The builders are Anderson Homes and Chad Stidham, respectively.