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Springfield, MO
General contractor: McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. (St. Louis)
Size: 140,000 square feet
Estimated cost: $80 million
Estimated completion: July
Project description: On the campus of Mercy Hospital Springfield, the Mercy Heart Hospital will feature three operating rooms, eight catheterization labs and a dedicated, separate entrance. The new facility will handle invasive procedures on the first floor and cardiovascular clinics on the second floor. The bulk of the project is a renovation, but it also includes a 14,000-square-foot addition. Work on the project began in 2016. The Lamar Johnson Collaborative LLC is the project architect, and IMEG Corp. is the structural and mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer.
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