YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
General contractor: DeWitt & Associates Inc.
Size: 35,000 square feet (addition) and 15,000 square feet (interior renovation)
Estimated cost: $14.5 million
Estimated completion: November
Project description: The two-story addition for Nixa Public Schools’ performing arts center features an 1,100-seat auditorium with a stage, orchestra pit, catwalk, set-building shop, storage, media room, concession/ticket office, lobby, restrooms and elevator. Renovation work includes converting existing spaces into a band room, choir room and drama lab. The building is constructed of concrete slab on precast concrete and elevated concrete slabs on steel columns and beams. Dake Wells Architecture Inc. designed the project, and engineering work is by Mettemeyer Engineering LLC, structural; Shaffer & Hines Inc., civil; True Engineering LLC, mechanical, electrical and plumbing; and Terracon Consultants Inc., geotechnical.
Plaza Shopping Center gained an arcade with the March 1 opening of The Flying Lap LLC; the repurposing of space operated by Burrell Behavioral Health resulted in the March 18 opening of the company’s second autism center; and a group of downtown business owners teamed up to reopen J.O.B. Public House.
