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A new commercial development is being planned on the site of the old Hickory Hills Middle School. KSMU’s Michele Skalicky has more…
The site at Eastgate and Chestnut Expressway will contain multiple restaurant sites and light retail. An anchor tenant has signed a contract, but the developer, Paul Larino with Larino Properties, says he can’t divulge who that is yet.Larino has been working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, Springfield Public Schools, the City of Springfield, Greene County and nearby High Street Baptist Church to bring the development, which will be called Hickory Hills Marketplace, together.Larino Properties will pay $4,450,000 for the old school building and the 15.5 acres it sits on. Larino says the project is expected have economic benefits for Springfield…
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He says the development will create several hundred construction jobs and several hundred more jobs in the shops and restaurants that locate there.Along with the new development, there will be eight to nine million dollars in road improvements in the area including a diverging diamond interchange at 65 and Chestnut Expressway. Chad Zickefoose with MODOT says the improvements will run from the east side of Ingram Mill to just short of where a new Eastgate and Chestnut intersection will be...
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Springfield will pay 2.7 million dollars of the cost of the road improvements, MODOT will contribute 3.7 million, Greene County has committed 1 million and Larino Properties’ share will be 1.5 million.The old Hickory Hills Middle School will be torn down. Larino expects dirt to be turned as early as February.
