Construction Update
Eagle Stop Gas Station
What: Gier Oil is building a 4,000-square-foot Phillips 66 gas station and car wash on the site of the former BP gas station owned by Gier, a company based in Eldon that operates 10 gas stations in mid-Missouri.
Where: 1704 N. Providence between Country Kitchen and MG Auto Sales
Contractor: Tom Darrough Construction LLC
Lender: Jefferson Bank
Estimated completion: Mid-June. Work began early this year.
Why: Darrough says BP is pulling out of the mid-Missouri market, so Gier decided to switch to the Phillips 66 franchise. The new station is larger with 12 fueling stations, four more than the BP station, and has an adjacent car wash. The BP station had 200 square feet of floor space, and the Phillips 66 station will be a true convenience store with 1,600 square feet of space for goods and merchandise and a license to sell beer, wine and alcohol, Darrough said. “It’s a great location for a gas station, and the owners felt it was time to upgrade to a more current model.”
River City awarded for hospital project
River City, which has its regional offices in Ashland, won in the $10 million to $25 million project category and was one of nine winners honored at a banquet May 6.
The seven-story, 102,000-square-foot Clinical Support and Education Building opened in May 2008 to provide additional space for their University Hospital and School of Medicine.
The association of contractors said River City’s partnership with MU “was especially important in light of the fact that the university had not previously used the design/build process for building construction on campus and that the new building was sited in a tight courtyard between existing multi-story and fully occupied buildings.”
Because the new building had a full basement and a connector tunnel to University Hospital, an elaborate soil retention system was developed to support the adjacent structures and keep the hospital’s main loading dock and drive open.