After nearly a decade working with Miller-O’Reilly Co. Inc., business partners Matt Miller and Pat O’Reilly have separated and each developer is operating independently – Miller as Miller Commerce LLC and O’Reilly as O’Reilly Development Co. LLC.
“We had accomplished a lot with Miller-O’Reilly, and we both wanted to do some things on our own,” O’Reilly said, describing the split as amicable.
Miller, who incorporated Miller Commerce LLC in 2002, said Miller-O'Reilly is still in the process of completing the second phase of The Fremont, as well as a senior housing development in St. Joseph. He noted, too, the two will continue to have a 50/50 ownership in the company's properties and the ability to market them.
"Pat and I are dedicated to the properties that we own together, which there are multiple," Miller said. "Certainly the door is open to do new projects if the developments were to make sense for both of us."
Miller-O’Reilly Co. is known for developing senior housing at The Fremont and student housing with The Monroe, Deep Elm and The Jefferson, as well as tax-credit funded affordable housing projects such as Forest Park Apartments in Joplin and Kemper Village in Boonville.
O’Reilly said his new firm is pursuing historic preservation, senior housing and affordable multifamily developments. His first announced project is a co-development with Joplin master planner Wallace Bajjali Development for a $35 million, 150-unit transitional senior living community in the city’s redevelopment area. The plan was presented to Joplin City Council on May 13, O’Reilly said.
The firm also has under contract a historic redevelopment in Kansas City and a senior housing job in Blue Springs, said O’Reilly, who works with three former Miller-O’Reilly Co. employees in the Wilhoit Plaza office Miller-O’Reilly had called home, 431 S. Jefferson Ave., Ste. 116-C. O'Reilly said Miller Commerce also operates out of the office.
The firm’s website, OreillyDevelopment.com, lists H Design LLC, Build LLC, Kansas City-based SWD Architects and St. Louis-based Capital Consultants Inc. among its development partners.
“One of our philosophies is strength in various partnerships with architects, builders and other professionals that participate as a team in our development projects,” O’Reilly said.
O’Reilly is the son of Charlie and Mary Beth O’Reilly and brother to Tim O’Reilly, who has developed Doubletree and Hilton Garden Inn properties and Houlihan’s restaurants under O’Reilly Hospitality Management LLC.
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