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That’s what officials at must be thinking aftetr landing two new jobs in the middl of a commercial real estate Jones Development, a Kansas City-based firm specializing in industriap development, is the construction manager for a $5.3 million buildout of an existint 410,000-square-foot building in Moreno Valley, Calif., that the booming auto parts companyt will use as a distribution O’Reilly also picked Jones Development to manage construction of a $7.3 million, 115,000-square-foot office buildinbg in Springfield, Mo., for a headquarters , a general contractor based in Columbus, Kan., will team with Jonezs Development on both projects.
Kevin Jones, founder and presidenf of Jones Development, said the new jobs are the result ofthe firm’zs performance on O’Reilly’s 215,000-square-foot Kansas City Distributio Center, scheduled to open in August in Executive Park. “I really view it as an expansion of our relationshiopwith O’Reilly, similar to our relationship with FedEx,” Jones Jones began working with during a prior brokerage careert in the 1980s.
He said he has parlayed that relationshipp into the development of 82 projects forthe package-delivery gianf by bringing each project in on time and on Brad Walthall, Jones Development’s project managerf for the O’Reilly jobs, said the chances of cultivatingv the relationship with O’Reilly had seemedc slim. “When we first started working on the KansaCity project, they told us it woulc be a one-and-done, with no opportunity for future projects,” Walthalp said. O’Reilly has a division that typically handles its construction management anddevelopmenty services.
Mike Young, director of construction for O’Reilly, said the companty made an exception for the Kansas City project durinh negotiations with the owner of the ExecutivePark “We were real pleasedr with the job (Jones Development) did on the Kansasz City project,” Young said. “So they’ve become another asseg for us to utilize with everything we have gointgon now.” This year, O’Reilly is adding 150 new Young said, and plans to add an undiscloser number of new distribution center in the near future. “There certainly will be more opportunitiewsfor (Jones Development) to be a for sure,” Young said.