From the Ground Up: Morris Dock Development Center

Owner/developer: Three-D Properties Inc.
General contractor: MoDoCo Inc.
Architect: Esterly Schneider & Associates Inc.
Engineers: Anderson Engineering Inc. and Wilson Surveying Co. Inc., civil; Mettemeyer Engineering LLC, structural; Malone Finkle Eckhardt & Collins Inc., mechanical, electrical and plumbing
Size: 3,500 square feet (another 4,000 square feet planned)
Estimated cost: $2 million
Lender: Central Bank of the Ozarks
Estimated completion: Early November
Project description: On property that formerly housed general contractor MoDoCo Inc., its owner Morris Dock is building a retail and restaurant development. Three buildings are planned, and Dock said the first would be ready for occupancy in early November. The second, a 4,000-square-foot structure, should get finished by late winter, he said. Dock expects to get started on that construction in mid-October. He said two tenants – a retailer and a restaurant – signed for the first buildings, though he’s not yet at liberty to disclose the names. A third building is planned for an undetermined date. Dock said site work cost at least $600,000 with plenty of fill dirt brought in to even out a sloping terrain, as well as installation of an underground stormwater culvert and a gravel drain system to purify rainwater from the parking lot.