When you’re building in an established neighborhood with limited space, site constraints can derail timelines and budgets fast. The 2025 Love Forward Homes project in Columbia showed exactly why experience matters when navigating these challenges.
The Project
Love Columbia needed a 10-unit transitional housing facility — six three-bedroom and four two-bedroom apartments — on a compact urban site. The location was challenging: existing homes on one side, a busy street on another, and an adjacent parking lot limiting access and staging areas.
Site Constraints That Required Solutions
Tight sites create predictable problems. You need space for material delivery and storage. Equipment access becomes complicated. Neighbors need protection from noise and disruption. And you’re working around existing utilities and infrastructure with limited room for error.
For this project, our team had to sequence work carefully to keep progress moving without compromising safety or creating problems for surrounding properties. Project Manager Jason Bias and Superintendent Lonnie Paulson planned staging areas, delivery schedules, and construction sequences to maximize the limited space.
Staying On Schedule Despite Constraints
The framing was completed on schedule, and wood sheathing installation moved forward without delays. When site limitations could have easily caused problems, advance planning and experienced field management kept the work moving.
Why Site Experience Matters
If you’re planning a project on a constrained site — whether urban infill, campus renovation, or expansion of an existing facility — you need a contractor who’s solved these problems before. The alternative is change orders, delays, and budget overruns when site realities don’t match initial assumptions.
Prost Builders has been managing complex sites across Missouri for over 75 years. We know how to identify constraints early, plan around them, and keep your project on track.
Planning a project with site challenges? Contact us to discuss how we approach multi-residential sites, complex sites and constrained locations.