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Springfield, MO
General contractor: DeWitt & Associates Inc.
Size: 5,800-square-foot addition and 70,000-square-foot renovation
Estimated cost: $14.9 million
Estimated completion: August 2023
Project description: Project officials say the district’s Early Childhood Program has outgrown its current location constructed in the 1960s. The entire building will be renovated, and an addition includes storm-safe classrooms. Dake Wells Architecture Inc. is the architect. Engineering work is by Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc., civil; J&M Engineering LLC, structural; and True Engineering Group LLC, mechanical, electrical and plumbing. SWT Design Inc. (St. Louis) is the landscape architect.
Helping people is the foremost purpose in business for Angela Stephens. The idea for Re-Focus the Creative Office was born to help her son, Drake Stephens, who had started struggling in school in fifth grade.