From the Ground Up: First Community Bank of the Ozarks

Owner/developer: First Community Bank of the Ozarks

General contractor: Design Craft Builders LLC

Architect: Butler, Rosenbury & Partners Inc.

Engineers: Butler, Rosenbury & Partners Inc., civil and structural; Malone Finkle Eckhardt & Collins Inc., mechanical, electrical and plumbing

Size: 7,000 square feet

Estimated cost: $1.5 million

Lender: None

Estimated completion date: Nov. 15

Project description: Branson-based First Community Bank of the Ozarks is adding a fourth branch and its second in Branson. The 16-year-old bank also has locations in Forsyth and Hollister. Contractor Rick Long of Rogers, Ark.-based Design Craft Builders, said he has built roughly 30 houses in the Branson area and 18 months ago opened a commercial office at Branson Landing. Long has had a lending relationship with First Community Bank of the Ozarks during his 24 years building in northwest Arkansas.

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