Community, What's Going Up

What’s Going Up in Columbia and Boone County?

June 28, 2024

Jodie Jackson Jr.

Fieldhouse gets massive expansion; Five Below taking shape in Shoppes area.

Prost Builders Inc. is the contractor for a more than 44,000-square-foot addition to the Columbia Sports Fieldhouse at A. Perry Philips Park in southeast Columbia. The $10.64 million project is among the building permits issued by the Columbia Building and Site Development office in May.

In total, Columbia issued 109 building permits with a combined valuation of $39.39 million. The Boone County Office of Resource Management issued 71 permits totaling $10.71 million. Those numbers add up to 180 permits with an aggregate valuation of $50.1 million.

The sports fieldhouse expansion at 4251 Philips Farm Road was the only commercial addition permit issued in May. The project will include four additional courts, meeting rooms, and associated support spaces. The permit notes that “there is no change in use.”

The facility opened in November 2019 and construction was funded in part by the city’s 2015 park sales tax.

The city’s building permit breakdown for May 2024 also includes:

Residential additions: 3 permits, $119,270 valuation.
Accessory dwelling unit: 1 permit, $132,536.
Commercial alterations: 8 permits, $2.56 million.
Residential alterations: 14 permits, $962,668.
Commercial infill: 1 permit, $252,499.
Commercial multi-family: 2 permits, $3.83 million.
Commercial new: 5 permits, $4.24 million.
Deck only: 12 permits, $280,269.
Duplex: 8 permits, $2.35 million.
Re-roof: 22 permits, $431,522.
Single family detached: 32 permits, $13.59 million.

Other highlights of the May building permit activity includes:

Interior tenant improvement for a new Five Below retail store going into an existing space at 203 N. Stadium Blvd. — formerly a bridal shop. There is also minor exterior store front work. The property is owned by The Kroenke Group. Barrett Construction Solutions of Zebulon, Georgia, is the contractor for the 8,347 square foot project valued at $719,928.

Sophia’s Restaurant’s relocation and renovation at 3910 Peachtree Drive, Suite H, lists Coil Construction Inc. as the contractor. That location previously housed 44 Stone Public House. The project is listed as 5,700 square feet with a valuation of $983,892. Sophia’s is relocating from 3915 S. Providence.

Missouri Eye Consultants in the Boone Health building at 900 W. Nifong Blvd. is expanding as a commercial infill project. The optometry clinic is expanding into an adjacent shell space in the Boone Health building. Coil Construction Inc. Is the contractor for the 2,180 square foot project that has a valuation of $252,499.

Two multi-family buildings are going up at Eastwood Apartments, located at 2500 and 2504 E. Business Loop 70. The pair of 17-unit, two-story buildings have individual valuations of $1.91 million and both comprise 14,000 square feet. The project owner is CJCA Development Inc. The builder is Reynolds Construction LLC of Jefferson City.

A new commercial speculative pre-engineered metal building will be located at 2101 Cottle Drive next to the BreakTime convenience store off North Stadium Boulevard. The owner intends to subdivide the building for up to two tenant suites. Little Dixie Construction Co. Is the builder. The permit calls for an 8,720 square foot building with a valuation of $4.24 million.

Six duplexes got the green light with permits in the Forest Ridge development. The duplexes, located at 5105, 5107, 5109, and 511 Flurry Drive, and 201 and 203 White River Drive, are each valued at $336,222 and comprise 2,280 square feet. The general contractor is 1St Choice.

Single family detached homes accounted for one-third of the May building permit valuation. Those projects included:

A $773,550 home at 4605 Sawgrass Drive in the Creek’s Edge development. Hemme Construction is the contractor for the 4,815 square foot home.

Anderson Homes is the builder for a $713,098 home comprising 5,053 square foot home off Walton Health Drive at Old Hawthorne.

The May building permit report from Boone County included:

Single family residential: 29 permits, $9 million.
Miscellaneous: 13 permits, $74,450.
Other nonresidential: 4 permits, $143,000.
Other structures: 7 permits, $200,572.
Residential additions/alterations: 8 permits, $875,209.
Nonresidential additions/alterations: 4 permits, $89,057.
Residential garages: 13 permits, $74,450.

The May 2024 building permit total for Boone County included 71 permits with a combined valuation of $10,712,438. Those totals are down significantly from the May 2023 total, which showed 140 permits issued with a total valuation of $24.25 million.