St. Louis, November 9, 2009—S. M. Wilson & Co. has been selected by the Quincy Salvation Army to manage construction of a new $18 million community center in Quincy, Ill.

The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Quincy is made possible through a generous bequest left by Joan Kroc to The Salvation Army. The 90,000 square foot facility will be home to a 500 seat worship center, community room, café, party rooms, fitness center, child watch area, outdoor play area, aquatics center, state-of-the-art game room, walking/running track, gym, and climbing wall.

Construction is scheduled for completion in April 2011.

Architechnics, Inc. and Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture are the architecture firms for the project.

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.  S. M. Wilson is one of the largest general construction and construction management contractors in the St. Louis area, and was named a ‘2006 Business of the Year’ by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay.  The company posted more than $515 million in 2008 revenues, and ranks 168th in Engineering News-Record’s 2008 list of Top 400 commercial contractors nationwide. 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 professional interests of construction program management.