October 30, 2009

Business Briefs

MiTek closes here, gets tax breaks in St. Charles MiTek, which decided earlier this year to close its Columbia manufacturing plant and consolidate operations in the St. Louis area, has received a tax break to pay for an expansion of its plant in St. Charles. MiTek owns the building that houses its stamping operations in

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VA Mortgage Center moving to Ice Chalet VA Mortgage Center.com has outgrown its offices near the Forum Boulevard-Chapel Hill Road intersection and plans to move to the vacant building on Grindstone Parkway that formerly housed the Ice Chalet and the Ice Chalet Antique Mall. VA Mortgage has reached a preliminary agreement to buy the 43,000-square-foot

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MiTek closes here, gets tax breaks in St. Charles MiTek, which decided earlier this year to close its Columbia manufacturing plant and consolidate operations in the St. Louis area, has received a tax break to pay for an expansion of its plant in St. Charles. MiTek owns the building that houses its stamping operations in

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From the Roundtable: MiTek departs, empty building roster goes up another notch

Doesn’t there seem to be an abundance of vacant commercial buildings for sale or rent around Columbia these days? Based on my own “drive-by” survey (to borrow a term appraisers employ as they cruise around and spot check properties) the number of “available” properties seems inordinately high and apparently growing. The abundance includes factory and

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