Kraft-Heinz preps for hot dog equipment updates, Love Columbia ten-plex moves forward.

Expansion of the Oscar Meyer hot dog production line at the Kraft-Heinz Columbia plant and the construction of a three-story ten-plex apartment building designed to create affordable housing options are among the projects listed on the city’s October building permit report.

The city of Columbia’s Building and Site Development office issued 112 building permits showing a combined valuation of $27,162,378. Boone County’s office of Resource Management issued 110 building permits that had an aggregate value of $13,997,447. Together, the city and county entities issued 222 permits totaling $41.16 million.

The city’s October building permit breakdown includes:

• Commercial addition: 1 permit, $30,122 valuation.
• Residential addition: 7 permits, $269,316.
• Commercial alteration: 5 permits, $3.88 million.
• Pool: 11 permits, $733,927.
• Commercial infill: 22 permits, $929,650.
• Commercial multi-family: 1 permit, $1.88 million.
• Deck only: 8 permits, $170,266.
• Duplex: 4 permits, $915,822.
• Reroof: 28 permits, $496,437.
• Single family detached: 44 permits, $17.8 million.

Highlights of the October permit report include:

A three-story, ten-plex apartment complex at 1221 E. Ash St. is a focal point of Love Columbia’s effort to provide additional affordable housing options in the central city.

The building permit for the $1.88 million Love Columbia Transitional Housing project entails 12,700 square feet. Prost Builders Inc. is the general contractor. Engineering firms involved are Shane Floyd Timberlake Engineering and Crockett Engineering. The architect is Jason Simon Associates.

Significant funding for Love Columbia’s focus on transitional housing for families and children experiencing homelessness has come from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) awards from city and county officials.

Kraft Heinz Columbia at 4600 Waco Road is the plant that makes every Oscar Meyer hot dog sold in America. The company will use Chapter 100 revenue bond financing for a roughly $93 million expansion of its hot dog production line. That work is getting started with a building permit for altering an existing packaging room per equipment updates and other related work involves 7,789 square feet of space with a project valuation of $3.57. The general contractor is The Dennis Group Inc. of Springfield, Massachusetts.

The local economic development and expansion project, known as Project Lightyear, comes with a Boone County Commission-approved 75 percent property tax abatement on new equipment. All of the county’s taxing entities, including the city of Columbia, signed off on the Chapter 100 tax abatement.

Kraft Heinz Columbia produces roughly one million hot dogs each day.

A new shell building at 2101 Cottle Drive – next to the BreakTime convenience store on North Stadium/Route E – is the subject of two permits for commercial infill. Suite 101 consists of 4,413 square feet and will become a new storage warehouse. Little Dixie Construction Co. is the contractor for the $111,926 project. Suite 105 of the same building has the same square footage and will be outfitted for new office and warehouse use. The permit for that project lists a valuation of $817,725.

Little Dixie Construction is the contractor. Star Heating is the mechanical contractor, and the architect is Jason Simon Associates. The property owner is listed as Stadium Commercial Park, located at 7250 E. Highway WW.

A project called Tokyo Club has a commercial alteration permit at 700 Fay Street, Suite 105. The $118,446 project entails minor tenant finishes for a pinball arcade. The contractor is Dependable Services and Construction, and the property owner is OTA Properties LLC.

Featured single-family homes getting the permit green light include:

• 5205 Buttercup Drive, Legacy Farms development. $691,239 and 5,231 square feet. The builder is River Oak Homes.
• 6013 Ivory Lane, Old Hawthorne North. $660,000 and 3,465 square feet. Anderson Homes in the builder.
• 6001 Ivory Lane, Old Hawthorne North. $788,752 and 5,591 square feet. Anderson Homes in the builder.
• 4541 Stonington Court, Creek’s Edge development. $623,344 and 4,879 square feet. The builder is Hemme Construction LLC.

Boone County’s building permit breakdown includes:

• Single family residential: 27 permits, $10.17 million.
• Two-family buildings: 1 permit, $376,500.
• Modular/double wide: 2 permits, $119,000.
• Other nonresidential: 9 permits, $671,500.
• Other structures: 21 permits, $1.22 million.
• Additional/alteration residential: 13 permits, $490,126.
• Addition/alteration nonresidential: 4 permits, $276,000.
• Residential garage: 9 permits, $585,000.
• Miscellaneous: 24 permits, $86,714.

Top-dollar homes on the county permit report include:

1223 E. Bluebird Lane, Columbia. $808,000. Builder: Anderson Homes.

Bowling Lane, Columbia. $800,000 plus a $150,000 outbuilding. Builder: AT Framing Construction.

W. Woodie Proctor Road. $660,000. Builder: Horizon Builders.