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Springfield, MO
General contractor: DeWitt & Associates Inc.
Size: 331,200 square feet
Estimated cost: $15 million
Estimated completion: June
Project description: More than a year of work at Springfield Underground is coming to a close this summer as DeWitt & Associates wraps up the 11th building constructed in the underground space. Officials say the dry warehouse, with potential for refrigeration, is located on the western edge of the development, adding to the existing 2.5 million square feet of warehouse and data storage 100 feet below ground near the intersection of Kearney Street and U.S. Highway 65. JPS & Associates Inc. is the project architect, with engineering by J&M Engineering LLC and RTM Engineering Consultants LLC. Excavation work was handled by Gillespie Excavating Co. LLC.
A safe room and classroom addition at Willard Central Elementary School will be used by the music, arts and athletic programs for a district that had 4,536 students last year, according to Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education figures, but school officials say enrollment is projected to grow.