TerraGreen promotes sustainable commercial development

Rob Murray, vice president of R.B. Murray Co., and Bud Hogan, principal with Hogan Land Title Co., are the principals behind TerraGreen LLC and TerraGreen, a nine-acre office park located at Blackman and Seminole roads.

General contractor Missouri Supermarket Builders began the site work for the development at the end of October. Of the seven initial building sites, only one is still available.

R.B. Murray Co. will occupy a 6,000-square-foot building designed with a second phase that would boost space to 9,000 square feet. Architect Matthew Hufft, of Hufft Projects out of Kansas City and New York, is the architect for the R.B. Murray Co. building, and also worked with the developers for TerraGreen’s sustainable design covenants and restrictions.

Other tenants will be engineering firm Olsson Associates, Dr. Carrie Arquitt’s Child Style Dental and Bauer Orthodontics, a father-and-son practice owned by Drs. Patrick and William Bauer.

“The real goal behind this is to be able to show that you can build an environmentally sensible and sustainable green building that does not cost any more than a (regular) Class A office building,” Murray said, noting that he’s not trying to compete with his clients who have Class A office space to sell or lease.

R.B. Murray Co. plans to move to TerraGreen in mid-March, with Olsson Associates to follow in the summer.

See SBJ’s Nov. 12 issue for more on TerraGreen and other business expansion news.