Forum Plans $175M MXD Along Highway

COLUMBIA, MO-Forum Development Group is working on plans for a $175 million new mixed-use project called Discovery. The 220-acre site, at roughly Highway 63 and Gans Road, will have 400,000 sf of office, 700,000 sf of retail and about 500 units of apartments and condos, according to company EVP Jay Lindner.

The development is going up in part thanks to a new interchange for the highway at Discovery Parkway, that will be next to about $1.3 billion in new campus projects going up for the University of Missouri, including a new life sciences incubator and health sciences building. The new mixed-use development would also be built across Highway 63 from the 114-acre Discovery Ridge research park. A new 500-acre park, that will include a lake, as well as new soccer and baseball fields, is being developed by the city next to Discovery as well. “Columbia is a very vibrant town,” Lindner says. “We’re in a perfect spot.”