Office Buildings

Serving as the Owner's Representative, Lacy & Company lead this complicated redevelopment project just south of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The

project involved vacation of a public alley and the combination of two historic film row buildings into one office building complex. A third warehouse building was incorporated into the complex as a climate controlled parking garage.

The building complex features two outdoor patio spaces, 3 common area conference rooms, and a communal break area for the tenants to use. All new sidewalks, street trees, and landscaping were constructed around the project site.

These film row buildings originally served as offices for MGM, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures. The former MGM building was crumbling and in jeopardy of being lost prior to the acquisition and renovation.

This building was the original headquarters for Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories, a veterinary supply business and  was built in 1918. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and was renovated with the assistance of historic tax credits. The build ing was entirely gutted down to the concrete structure and renovated to historic standards. Additions included a penthouse event space with outdoor roof deck, and a new landscaped patio at the main entrance. The building now serves as corporate headquarters for three con~truction companies, Superior-Bowen Construction, Inspired Homes, and Centric Projects. The ground level is being offered for lease to outside tenants. Lacy & Company served as the Owner's Representative  managing the construction project on behalf of the partnerhip Owners.

These three former "Film Row" buildings once served as distribution hubs for national film companies to distribute movie reels to theatre houses in the central united states.  Lacy & Company assisted the Owner in complete  renovations of this entire block of buildings, including the construction of a rooftop deck on two of them. Work in_cluded all new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, windows, doors, the installation of an elevator, and restoration/ new brick exteriors. Lacy & Company also served as the leasing agent, and has successfully leased 1706-10 to the architectural firm of ACI Boland 1700 Wyandotte to PARIC Construction Company, and 1720  to Emfluence.

In 2012, Lacy & Company was engaged to assist the Owner

of the former Western Blue building in making renovations

needed to prepare the building for lease. With a limited

budget, this unusable building was transformed into an

attractive, income producing property. Renovations

included the following:

• Demolition of 2nd and 3rd floors

• Construct new roof over 1st floor of north section

• Renovations to approximately 10,500 SF of tenant space

• Exterior masonry restoration / tuckpointing

• New HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems

• Installation of new windows

• Parking lot, loading dock and other site improvements

The renovation of the historic Vitagraph Film Exchange Building was a project of developer and philanthropist Shirley Bush Helzberg. Other historic building renovations she has completed include Webster House and Blossom House. The project is in a Tax Increment Financing district and was approved by the National Park Service for Historic Tax Credits.

In 2008, Lacy & Company was retained as the Owner's Representative for this project and it was successfully completed in June 2010.

The first two floors are occupied by the Kansas City Symphony. A 38 car pre-cast parking garage was built on the south side of the building. Helix Architecture + Design designed the project which recently received LEED Gold certification.

In May 2006, JE Dunn retained Lacy & Company as  development consultant for its National Corporate Headquarters project on Block 81 in the East Village redevelopment district. This strategic site fronts the llus Davis Civic Mall on Locust Street between 10th and 11th Streets.  

Block 81 is within an approved Tax Increment Financing District. The TIF Commission acquired the land on behalf of JE Dunn and the City provided funding for the parking garage.  

Services included project budgeting, design process oversight for the office building and assistance with negotiations for the adjacent City owned parking garage.  The garage provides 550 parking spaces for the corporate headquarters and additional 200 spaces for public use. The building has achieved LEED Gold certification, a first for corporate headquarters in Kansas City.

In 2007, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation  decided to completely renovate its national headquarters facility to adapt to its changing needs. The Foundation sought an Owner's Representative with experience in managing intensive renovations around ongoing  operations. Lacy & Company was recommended by  other community based organizations and was retained to manage this project on the Foundation's behalf.  

Lacy & Company utilized its highly organized  management style and careful attention to details to successfully complete this project, meeting the Foundation's program, budget and schedule goals.  

Renovations included extensive site work, entrance courtyard and canopy, separate entrance for the conference center, audio visual and IT upgrades, central stair added to office wing, and main lobby  reconfiguration. The conference center, which serves over 60,000 people a year, was also completely remodeled with a large central hub meeting room and new catering kitchen.

Commerce Bancshares maintains its corporate headquarters in an older high-rise office building in Clayton, Missouri. The bank needed additional space and the building required significant systems replacements. Lacy & Company was retained to provide the management and coordination for the design and construction of these planned renovations which included the phasing of major scopes of work: 

• HVAC / electrical system replacement  

• Elevators replacement  

• Parking deck reconstruction 

•  Drive-thru facilities upgrades  

• 44,000 square foot mezzanine expansion over the existing banking lobby 

We provided project design and construction oversight, budget compliance, and cost tracking with weekly project team meetings during this process. The projects were all completed on schedule and within budgets.

Saint Luke's Hospital retained Lacy & Company to  identify a strategic site in south Johnson County for a new hospital and medical building campus in 1995. We selected a 25 acre site at 12300 Metcalf for this project following rezoning and street realignment.  

Lacy & Company served as the Owner's Representative for the planning, design and construction of a new hospital and attached medical office complex containing 350,000 square feet at a cost of $54 million. Medical office leasing was also handled by our company.  

Saint Luke's South is a full service hospital with 105 in-patient beds, ambulatory out-patient center, state of the art maternity center, operating and emergency rooms, rehabilitation center, and cafeteria. The prime location and excellent design of Saint Luke's South have made it one of the busiest health care facilities in south Johnson County. It has expanded several times since it first opened in 1998.