SBJ: Spring 2019 Architects & Engineers Project Report: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective

Spring 2019 Architects & Engineers Project Report: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective

BY: CHRISTINE TEMPLE, FEATURES EDITORctemple@sbj.net

Posted online March 25, 2019 | 1:56 pm

Anderson Engineering offices
3213 S. West Bypass

Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective is the project architect and mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer for Anderson Engineering Inc.’s new offices. The $2.5 million project, according to a city building permit, comprises a roughly 10,000-square-foot office building and 5,000-square-foot testing lab. The two buildings will be connected by an outdoor patio and covered walkway. The office area features private and open offices, a work room, conference rooms, large meeting space and break room. Base Construction & Management LLC serves as general contractor while engineering work is by Anderson Engineering, civil and landscape; and Miller Engineering PC, structural. The project, financed by Commerce Bank, is expected to be completed in December.

SBJ: Spring 2019 Architects & Engineers Project Report: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective

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Spring 2019 Architects & Engineers Project Report: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective

BY: CHRISTINE TEMPLE, FEATURES EDITORctemple@sbj.net

Posted online March 25, 2019 | 1:51 pm

Mid-Missouri Bank Operations & Retail Center
1619 E. Independence St.

Mid-Missouri Bank has plans for a new three-story bank and operations building, comprised mostly of metal panels and glass, to replace its current headquarters just 100 yards to the north. Planned design features include the permeation of natural sunlight and an outdoor deck area on the roof. Project architect Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective also is providing mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering work. DeWitt & Associates Inc. is the general contractor and additional civil and structural engineering work is handled by Toth & Associates Inc. The project is expected to wrap up by June 2020.

From the Ground Up: BluCurrent Credit Union

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BY: ERIC OLSON, EDITOReolson@sbj.net

Posted online February 25, 2019 | 6:19 pm

Owner/developer: BluCurrent Credit Union

General contractor: Nesbitt Construction Inc

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Architect: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective

Engineers: Lee Engineering and Associates LLC, civil; J&M Engineering LLC, structural; and Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective, mechanical, electrical and plumbing.

Size: 2,500 square feet

Estimated cost: $765,000

Lender: None

Estimated completion: June

Project description: After working with Base Construction & Management LLC in the preliminary design phase, BluCurrent spokeswoman Jacqueline Post said Nesbitt Construction was hired for the construction. Project completion was pushed back a few months to early summer due to re-engineering, she said. Officials had set a first-quarter opening for the branch, the cost for which has increased about 20 percent due to materials pricing. Post said it’s designed with a technology bar, interactive kids’ area, a mixed media wall and member conference areas. The new branch, which would be BluCurrent’s fourth, represents a return to Glenstone Avenue. The credit union sold a location near Glenstone and Seminole Street over five years ago. BluCurrent President and CEO Craig Tabor has said the credit union plans to open another branch or two in the next few years, and it owns property at the northeast corner of Campbell Avenue and Weaver Road slated for a new operations center and possible branch.

Anderson Engineering to break ground on new HQ

BY: SBJ STAFFsbj@sbj.net

Posted online February 19, 2019 

Anderson Engineering Inc. plans to break ground on its new headquarters this month after receiving a needed annexation and rezoning from Springfield City Council for the relocation in the fall.

The engineering firm scheduled a 10 a.m. Feb. 28 groundbreaking ceremony at 3213 S. West Bypass, according to a news release.

Officials plan to move into a 10,000-square-foot office from their current space at 2045 W. Woodland St.

“As we continue to expand, this facility will fit our existing needs and allow us to continue that growth,” Anderson Engineering CEO Neil Brady said in the release. “The new space will provide our employees with collaborative workspaces, training facilities and additional amenities and resources to help us better serve our clients across the country.”

With architecture work from Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective, Base Construction & Management LLC is the general contractor for the project that includes a separate 5,000-square-foot materials testing lab with a loading dock. Commerce Bank is financing the project, the cost of which was not included in the release. An Anderson Engineering official could not be reached for the figure by deadline, and a city building permit does not display the estimated cost for the project.

Anderson Engineering representatives went to council in September 2018 to have the 9-acre property annexed into the city. The purchase of the land from Donald Williams was contingent on the annexation and a rezoning to highway commercial from suburban residential, according to past Springfield Business Journal reporting.

Council approved the annexation and rezoning during its Sept. 24 meeting.

Anderson Engineering expects to relocate its 40 corporate employees to the new headquarters in December, according to the release.

New north-side hotel, event center open

Holiday Inn Express & Suites spans nearly 63,000 square feet. PHOTO PROVIDED BY KEVIN ALGEO

BY: GEOFF PICKLE, WEB PRODUCERgpickle@sbj.net

O’Reilly Hospitality Management LLC opened its new Holiday Inn Express & Suites and adjacent Moon Town Crossing event center in north Springfield.

Kevin Algeo, general manager for the 111-room hotel at 3050 N. Kentwood Ave., said the lodging facility opened to customers Feb. 1 after the completion of the $13 million, nearly 63,000-square-foot project he said started about a year ago. Moon Town Crossing, located at 3070 N. Kentwood Ave., held its first event — a monthly open house — on Jan. 13 as construction continues at the craftsman-style event space, said Cassidy Palmer, the venue’s sales and operations manager.

“As we get closer to the finish line, we’re going to start doing bigger and bigger events,” Palmer said, noting Moon Town’s construction is expected to be fully complete by early April. “The patio area is done. The inside of the building is almost completely done, except for the flooring.”

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Construction continues on Moon Town Crossing,

For Moon Town, wooden beams for the barn-like structure were made at Ozark Timber Frame’s Amish community in El Dorado Springs and shipped to the development site in Springfield, according to past reporting.

O’Reilly Hospitality CEO Tim O’Reilly’s Glen44 Investments LLC owns both properties. They’re managed by O’Reilly Hospitality.

A city building permit put the estimated cost of Moon Town Crossing at $334,764, Springfield Business Journal previously reported. Larry Snyder and Co. served as general contractor with Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective as architect for both projects.

At Holiday Inn, Algeo said six rooms were booked Friday after the hotel opened at 3:30 p.m. Four rooms were booked Saturday, with a couple others on Sunday, he said.

“We weren’t in the system until we went live,” Algeo said, noting with reservations now available, he expects bookings to increase.

SBJ Design Team of the Year finalist: National Place

BY: CHRISTINE TEMPLE, FEATURES EDITORctemple@sbj.net

Posted online November 5, 2018 | 3:07 pm

Owner/developer: National Place LLC
General contractor: BP Builders LLC
Architect: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective
Engineers: Lee Engineering and Associates LLC and Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective 
Interior designer: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective
Size: 30,000 square feet
Cost: $3 million
Project completed: November 2017

Most people might have missed the potential of the narrow lot at the corner of National Avenue and Montclair Street. That’s not the case for Jon Dodd, principal and director of architecture at Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective. 

“Many people thought this site was not capable of being developed the way that it was,” he said. “Most just saw this site as a narrow piece of ground for another one-story, monotonous strip center development. Until this team came along.” 

One hurdle early on was zoning requirements that caused height limitations. 

“Pockets were designed into the wood truss floor and roof structure to accommodate overhead mechanical equipment allowing the floor-to-floor heights to be lower,” Dodd said. 

The 32,000-square-foot office and medical building located in the middle of the Medical Mile houses seven tenants, including Buxton Kubik Dodd, Missouri Trust & Investment Co. and Family Back & Neck Care Centre, as well as PrimeLending in an adjacent freestanding building. 

Dodd points to design highlights as the three-story lobby, with an open glass element, and a covered rooftop terrace.

“There are a lot of amazing things about this building, from its striking modern design [to] how it glows at night,” he said. “We were able to preserve and renovate the existing 1960s-era office building on the site, bringing the once-vacant eyesore up to par with the newer modern building design.”

SBJ Design Team of the Year finalist: Boomer Town Studios

BY: CHRISTINE TEMPLE, FEATURES EDITORctemple@sbj.net

Posted online November 5, 2018 | 3:06 pm

Owner/developer: Boomertown Lofts LLC
General contractor: Larry Snyder and Co.
Architect: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective
Engineers: Lee Engineering and Associates LLC, Miller Engineering PC and Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective 
Interior designer: Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective
Size: 41,381 square feet
Cost: $4.5 million
Project completed: August 2018

Boomer Town Studios was developed with the convenience of on-campus dorms – due to its close proximity to Missouri State University – and coupled with the design and feel of solo apartment living.

The 70 single-occupancy, fully furnished 391-square-foot studios are situated in a four-story walk-up just 200 feet from MSU across National Avenue, said Brian Kubik, principal, architect and president of Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective.

The studio complex is designed to house two commercial tenants within the bottom floor, he said, and Travellers House Coffee opened Sept. 24 in one of the spaces.

Kubik said construction crews were on a tight timeline to finish by the start of MSU’s fall semester. 

“Once the project got going, it went fairly smooth,” he said. “If there were any issues at all they were simply making efforts to be good neighbors with the Rountree Neighborhood Association and scheduling construction deliveries to a limited accessible site.”

The site required public utility upgrades, he said, including a greater electrical capacity and a new water main on National.

Kubik called the project a “tremendous upgrade from the former single-family dilapidated residence structures between Page and Madison streets.”

He said his favorite design element is the development’s contemporary look with clean lines.

SBJ: Mid-Missouri Bank to build new HQ, branch

Mid-Missouri Bank to build new HQ, branch

BY: GEOFF PICKLE, WEB PRODUCERgpickle@sbj.net

Posted online October 19, 2018 | 11:55 am

Mid-Missouri Bank isn’t going very far for its new combined headquarters and full-service branch — about 100 yards, in fact, a company spokesman says.

Director of Marketing Andrew Moore said the company is in the early design stages for new construction just in front of its current, longtime corporate offices at 1619 E. Independence St. 

“They’ve just widened James River (Freeway) there,” he said. “We felt like that was prime real estate.” 

Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective is designing the new office and branch that Moore said would decrease its operations space from a current 23,000 square feet. 

“We have a lot of unused space here,” Moore said, noting the company has operated at the building since it was built in 2002.

Mid-Missouri’s 42 current corporate employees, along with one more planned hire, would relocate to the new building, he said. Design features planned include the permeation of natural sunlight and an outdoor deck area on the roof. 

In tandem with the construction plans, Mid-Missouri listed its current buildingwith R.B. Murray Co. for sale at $3.1 million. 

With the new branch, Mid-Missouri would operate 14 banking locations. Noting the bank already owns the land where construction will take place, Moore was unsure when the building would be completed.

SBJ: Restaurant, brewery opening at Quarry Town

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Commercial space is expected to be complete by month’s end for Green Circle Projects LLC’s Quarry Town in Galloway Village.

Restaurant, brewery opening at Quarry Town

BY: GEOFF PICKLE, WEB PRODUCERgpickle@sbj.net

Posted online October 17, 2018 | 3:46 pm

Last edited 9:21 a.m., Oct. 18, 2018

A new brewery and restaurant concept have signed on as anchor tenants for Green Circle Projects LLC’s Quarry Town development in Galloway Village.

The Rock is the latest restaurant idea from the owners of Bair’s Sports Grill, slated for a February 2019 opening, and Great Escape Beer Works is underway to launch next month, according to a Green Circle Projects news release.

Leases signed by two office tenants brings the preopening occupancy rate to 30 percent for the 20,000 square feet of commercial space currently in Quarry Town. Also underway is work to create 100 apartments at the $14 million development site, 4006 S. Lone Pine Ave.


Green Circle Projects spokesman Matt Wagner said the development’s commercial space is expected to be complete by month’s end. Quarry Town has 14,000 square feet of additional retail and office space the company is marketing. 


Tim and Jennifer Bair’s The Rock is inspired by landmarks such as Drury University’s Stone Chapel and St. John’s Episcopal Church, which used stone quarried from the Ozarks.

“Quarry Town is the perfect setting for our new venture,” Tim Bair said in the release of his new 2,900-square-foot restaurant and bar. “Having seen the success of Farmers Park, we knew it would be a place others would want to visit.” 


Great Escape owners Jake and Jen Duensing are finishing up their 3,000-square-foot space in Quarry Town to open next month. The Duensings’ two-floor taproom would join around 10 other breweries either operating or planned in Springfield. Sisters Carol and Susan McLeod recently announced they’re targeting a summer 2019 opening for their Hold Fast Brewing company at the former Fire Station No. 1, 235 N. Kimbrough Ave.


Prosperity Financial Group and Patterson’s Hospitality Agents are the two office tenants signed on for Quarry Town. Prosperity, a financial planning and wealth management firm, is moving its five employees from its current office at 1354 E. Kearney St. Patterson’s Hospitality Agents, a company that supplies and installs quartz, granite, shower and tub enclosures for the hospitality and multifamily industries, is joining Quarry Town as it ramps up to also cover purchasing and design services, according to the release.

Ross Construction Group LLC is expected to complete the apartments in February.

SBJ: New HQ positions Zimmerman companies for growth

A ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony for Zimmerman Properties LLC, Zimmerman Properties Construction LLC and Wilhoit Properties Inc. is scheduled for Friday.

BY: GEOFF PICKLE, WEB PRODUCER

The family of companies under the Zimmerman Corporate LLC umbrella are now operating in a new headquarters that’s “sized for future growth,” according to one of the companies’ top executives. 

Bob Davidson, chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Zimmerman Properties LLC, Zimmerman Properties Construction LLC and Wilhoit Properties Inc., said the relocation to 1329 E. Lark St. created a space with room to grow. City building permits put the approximate development cost at $4 million. 

“We sized the corporate office so we could probably comfortably hold 120-130 employees,” he said, noting no hiring plans are currently in the works. “It’s just more opportunistic as the company continues to grow. It goes with the economy and the opportunities that we find.” 

Davidson said the family of companies outgrew their leased space at Green Circle Projects LLC’s Southgate Shopping Center, 2144 E. Republic Road, about five years ago. Since “almost everything we do on our properties runs through our corporate office,” Davidson said the new campus’ flow and space — compared with tight working quarters inside Southgate — are more efficient for some 90 corporate employees. 

From the new headquarters, Zimmerman employees manage $50 million in annual revenue, mostly made through the apartment-building Zimmerman Properties Construction business, and assets in 17 states, Davidson said. The companies’ portfolio comprises around 15,000 rental units housing 40,000 residents. 

The Zimmerman companies moved into the Lark Street campus on July 13, said Office Manager Pamela Gertz. A ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony for the nearly 32,000-square-foot campus is scheduled Oct. 12.

Base Construction & Management LLC started building the new corporate offices in summer 2017, according to past Springfield Business Journal reporting. Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective was the project architect.