St. Louis, Mo., October 6, 2009—S. M. Wilson & Co. has completed construction of a new $30 million addition to the Concordia Village Continuing Care Retirement Community in Springfield, Illinois. Concordia Village is owned and operated by Lutheran Senior Services.  The new addition is connected to Lutheran Senior Services’ existing housing facility at Concordia Village.

The new senior care facility includes a three story independent living wing with 78 independent living apartments and a single story assisted living wing with 48 assisted living units.  Administrative offices, recreation rooms and dining and kitchen facilities are also located within the new building.  The project also included construction of five new patio homes with 14 independent living units on the Concordia Village site. In total, the project includes 216,000 square feet of new construction. 

St. Louis Design Alliance is the architect for the project.  
S. M. Wilson has been building successful senior living facilities for nearly 30 years and has experienced continued growth in this construction market.  In the past five years, S. M. Wilson has completed more than $178 million of senior living projects.

S. M. Wilson is a full-service construction management and general contracting firm, with headquarters in St. Louis, a full-service office in Kansas City and Rollins Construction Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S. M. Wilson, in Indianapolis. The company posted more than $515 million in 2008 revenues. The St. Louis and Kansas City offices have been publicly recognized as a ‘Best Places To Work’ in their respective cities by The St. Louis and Kansas City Business Journals.

Founded in 1921, the company has built a reputation for high quality of work and outstanding financial and general project management expertise. The company is a proud member of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis and the Associated Builders and Contractors Heart of America Chapter, as well as the Construction Management Association of America, North America's only organization dedicated exclusively to the interests of professional construction/program management.