April 1, 2011

Out-of-towner city manager replacement has big shoes to fill | From the Roundtable

As much faith as I have in the wise and collective wisdom of our elected officials, I’m disappointed by their recent decision to select an out-of-towner to be Columbia’s new city manager. Far from wishing to cast a hex over the candidate they unanimously selected, the real “boots on the ground” successor to Bill Watkins,

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City's largest commercial construction projects

Date of Building Permit Address Owner Valuation Type of project 6/2/10 2810 LeMone Industrial Little Dixie Construction Co. $10,000,000 New IBM building 8/4/10 1600 E. Pointe Auto-Owners Insurance Company $4,000,000 New commercial offices 4/14/10 1401 E. Gans City of Columbia $3,300,000 New Public Works 11/2/10 1600 E. Broadway Reinhardt Wilson Joint Venture $3,200,000 New Boone Hospital parking garage 12/3/10 220 S. 10th Trittenbach Development LLC $3,000,000 New multi-family 5 or more units 12/27/10 3710 Lenoir Lutheran Senior Services $2,800,000 Commercial alteration non-residential 9/22/10 1306 Hathman NH Scheppes & Dist Co. $2,500,000 Commercial addition non-residential 11/15/10 1510 Chapel Hill Columbia Residential LLC $1,770,300 New commercial medical 8/17/10 807 W. Business Loop 70 Business Loop Development LLC $1,650,000 New commercial stores 2/17/10 2102 N. Garth Coil Construction Inc. $1,600,000 Commercial addition non-residential

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