The city of Columbia’s Building and Site Development office issued 100 building permits in July, and the Boone County Resource Management office issued 75 building permits. Combined, the 175 permits have an aggregate estimated valuation of $32.9 million.
The city’s valuation for its 100 permits was $21.8 million, compared to 130 permits with a $37.6 million valuation in July 2024. The county’s July 2025 total of $11.1 million for building permits compares to 89 permits and a valuation of $11.4 million for July 2024.
Among the highlights of the city’s building permit report includes process line modifications and a silo addition at Aurora Organic Dairy’s plant at 4525 Waco Road. The 2,500-square-foot project listed a valuation of $174,350. The general contractor is Big-D Construction Corporation of Salt Lake City, Utah. Subcontractors include Questec Constructors Inc. and Meyer Electric Company, both of Columbia.
Three multifamily apartment complexes got the green light for development off John Garry Drive. Lakeshore Apartments at Corporate Lake will have three twelve-plex, three-story housing apartment buildings with parking. The general contractor is Garry Lewis Properties.
The apartments will be built at 4808 and 4806 John Garry Drive (both at 18,481 square feet, $2.6 million valuation) and 4810 John Garry Drive (15,283 square feet, $2.11 million). Local subcontractors and engineering firms are Johnson Plumbing, Crocket Engineering Consultants, Engineering Surveys & Services, and Malicoat-Winslow Engineers, Inc.
The rapidly developing area of State Farm Parkway and Stellar Drive will be the home of LifeStance Health, an outpatient behavioral health services provider. The building at 4500 Stellar Drive, Suite 104, is getting various alterations and modifications of existing mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems.
The building permit listed BGS Construction of Lone Jack, Missouri, as the general contractor for the 4,084-square-foot, $157,606 project.
The city’s July 2025 building permit report breakdown includes:
- Addition, residential: 2 permits, $364,200
- Alteration, commercial: 8 permits, $1.35 million
- Alteration, residential: 10 permits, $313,675
- Pool (1 & 2 family): 1 permit, $36,316
- Commercial multi-family: 3 permits, $7.31 million
- Commercial new: 1 permit, $25,000
- Deck only: 11 permits, $191,691
- Reroof: 35 permits, $554,558
- Single family detached: 25 permits, $11.56 million
- Solar photovoltaic system (residential): 4 permits, $76,350
Other highlights of the building permit report include:
Commercial alterations at the Church of Christ at 1729 W. Broadway, Suite 10B. The permit covers 6,620 square feet for interior renovation to an existing tenant suite for use of a church. Hercon Construction Inc., Tracey Herigon, is the contractor for the $400,000 project.
A Bob McCosh building at 3300 Range Line Street is getting a new roof and new siding, replacement of interior wiring, and replacement of ceiling-hung furnaces. The permit summary stated that the building will be used for unmanned storage space. The project has a valuation of $500,000, according to the building permit, which did not list the general contractor.
Interior renovation of an existing UPS store at 2000 E. Broadway will not change the building’s use. The 1,142-square-foot project listed a valuation of $75,000. The building is owned by GKT Eastgate Columbia LLC. The general contractor is Vanmeter Construction LLC of Overland Park, Kansas.
Single-family home building permits in July include a 9,744-square-foot, $1.05 million home on Lightpost Drive in The Gates development at Old Hawthorne at the top end of the cost spectrum. APM Construction Services, LLC is the general contractor. Meanwhile, Hemme Construction is the contractor for a $212,485 home in the Amberton Place development off Bosco Bel Drive.
The Boone County July building permit breakdown includes:
- Single family residential: 17 permits, $7.59 million
- School/educational building: 1 permit, $75,000
- Other nonresidential: 9 permits, $1.89 million
- Other structures: 4 permits, $240,024
- Residential additions/alterations: 16 permits, $622,999
- Nonresidential: 2 permits, $193,000
- Residential garages: 7 permits, $425,400
- Miscellaneous: 19 permits, $26,300
Photo by Jodie Jackson Jr
