St. John's leasing former CBCO space

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks has found a tenant for its former headquarters on South Glenstone Avenue.

St. John's Health System will use about half of the 2230 S. Glenstone Ave. building for its pain clinic procedures, currently performed in the basement of the health system's main hospital building, according to St. John's spokeswoman Cora Scott. The majority of the building has been vacant for about a year.

St. John's agreed in December to sublease about 14,000 square feet for an undisclosed amount from CBCO, the two groups confirmed this week. According to the Greene County Assessor's Office, Wheeler Enterprises Inc. owns the building, once a Consumer's Market. Its most recent appraised value is nearly $1.6 million, the assessor's office shows.

Wheeler Enterprises is registered to Jared Enterprises President and CEO Jerry Jared, one of CBCO's lifetime board members.

David Caffey, CBCO senior director of operations, said St. John's pursued the blood center about subleasing the space, after CBCO moved its main operations center to the former Summer Fresh market at 220 W. Plainview Road in early 2009. CBCO retained 3,300 square feet of the South Glenstone building for its Bill Reser Community Donor Center.

The plan is to have remodeling and infill work, performed by Springfield Builders Inc., at the Glenstone building completed by May, according to Caffey, with St. John's moving into the facility by the end of June.

Caffey also noted that there is additional space for lease in the building - about 10,000 square feet, split into two areas.[[In-content Ad]]