By KERRY SMITH, EDITOR, ST. LOUIS CONSTRUCTION NEWS AND REVIEW MAGAZINE A fast-growing pet care manufacturing firm with roots in western St. Charles County plans to break ground this spring on a 200,000-square-foot, $25.7 million global headquarters in O’Fallon. Wentzville-based Cosmos Corporation employs more than 100 people and anticipates creating at least 60 more full-time
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By Kerry Smith, Editor – St. Louis Construction News & Review Magazine Although their populations are markedly different, O’Fallon, MO and Edwardsville, IL are benefitting from similar new construction developments and are governed by municipalities with similar visions and priorities. Patrick McKeehan, O’Fallon’s economic development director, says the city of 87,800 population has experienced solid
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Significant construction cost savings enabled the police department to build out nearly 9,000 sq. ft. for future expansion, upgrade to better finishes, as well as add an employee breakroom, outdoor space and outdoor canine training area. McCarthy Building Companies and the City of O’Fallon celebrated on Saturday, December 2, the grand opening of the new
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Development to include 25 acres of neighborhood retail, over 80 acres of mixed use Payne Family Homes, an award-winning residential construction company, is launching a new commercial real estate division with a 260-acre mixed-use project in O’Fallon, Missouri. Tentatively called The Streets of Caledonia, this $400 million commercial development will encompass 260 acres in O’Fallon at
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Byrne & Jones Sports Delivers Artificial Surface Fields in Less Than 90 Days The O’Fallon Family Sports Park has scored big time with a cooperative purchasing agreement that has delivered seven new soccer fields in less than 90 days while saving $1 million. Rather than put the project out to bid, the city tapped the
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Holland Construction Services, Inc. (Holland) will begin work in March on an expansion project for New Life in Christ Interdenominational Church in O’Fallon, Illinois. This expansion will provide much needed space as the congregation continues to grow. The $3.8 million dollar project involves the expansion and renovation to the church’s sanctuary. This will increase seating
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Student Athletes at McKendree University, Southern Illinois IceHawks youth hockey organization and the general public now have a new recreation center to call home in O’Fallon, IL. The McKendree Metro Rec Plex recently opened to the McKendree University men’s & women’s hockey teams, giving them a new facility to call “home ice”. Soon the school’s swimming,
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