Parking Structures

Lacy & Company has assisted developer Shirley Bush Helzberg with several renovations and infrastructure improvements to her Crossroads District real estate holdings. In 2012, we were retained to assist with the planning, design, and construction of a new 188 car parking garage at the northeast corner of 17 and Wyandotte.  

The garage serves patrons of the Webster House shop/restaurant, tenants in the Vitagraph Film Exchange office building, musicians at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, and visitors to Crossroads area businesses. A neighborhood retail space and outdoor courtyard is included on the first floor.

In 2010, Lacy & Company was retained by Rockhurst University to manage the implementation of its multi-year four phase master plan, beginning with a new 4-level 420 car parking structure at the northeast corner of :roost Avenue and Rockhurst Road. The project includes 10,000 SF of retail space on the ground floor and was designed to be certified as LEED Silver by the USG BC. It will be the only parking garage in Kansas and Missouri to receive this designation.

Founded in 1910, Rockhurst University is a Catholic, Jesuit university serving 3,000 students - 72% undergraduates and 28% graduate students.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Campus  Enhancement Project began in 1999 with an RFQ / RFP process to identify and retain a Program Manager. Lacy & Company was selected from among four national and local companies submitting proposals.  

The program included these major scopes of work: 

Expansion

• 165,000 square foot Bloch Building 450 car underground parking garage

• Reflecting pool

• New central mechanical plant

Renovations

• New security command center

• Building envelope improvements

• New sculpture hall

• Kirkwood Hall renovation

• Ford Learning Center

The Bloch Building was notable for its unique design and construction. The most challenging was the channel glass exterior skin system suspended from a cantilevered truss and roof system of each lens structure. It was completed and opened to the public in June 2007, eight years after planning began.

Tower Properties Company, a subsidiary of Commerce Bancshares Inc. retained Lacy & Company to manage  the redevelo, pme,n t of the southwest corner of 9th an d Walnut for a public parking garage to serve Commerce Bank and Commerce Tower office building. A vacant  building on the site housed the former Columbia Union National Bank.  

Site work included the demolition of the existing bank structure, excavation and shoring for the garage footprint.  Construction of the 7-level, 625 car parking garage was a 15 month duration and was completed in October 1999.  The structure was post-tensioned cast-in-place concrete with pre-cast fa9ade and a fully roofed top level.