Missouri OA: Chesterfield State Office Building SFS

The Portfolio

One building. Three owners' worth of common areas.

The scope is property management for the St. Louis County Regional State Office Building at 1390 Timberlake Manor Parkway in Chesterfield: a five-story Class A office building of 116,878 square feet, built around 1998. The state bought it in January 2025 for $16.25 million to consolidate St. Louis-area agencies out of downtown.

It is Building I of Timberlake Corporate Center, a three-building, 351,532-square-foot campus off I-64. The other two buildings, 1350 and 1370, are privately owned. The three buildings share common areas under recorded declarations, and the owners split those costs equally.

The notice extends existing contract MS250191001 with Cushman & Wakefield for 12 months, October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027, with no renewal options. The Office of Administration's reason: Cushman & Wakefield already manages the full complex for the private owners, and cohesive management of shared grounds requires one manager. OA designated them the single feasible source under RSMo 34.044.

This is commercial office, not residential. No doors, no units. The work is building engineering, vendor oversight, and common-area coordination on a shared campus.

Complexity Flags

Why this never reaches a competitive process.

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The declarations are the lock

All three owners split common-area costs equally. Whoever manages the other two buildings runs the shared grounds, parking decks, and cost allocations. A new manager on 1390 alone would be reconciling against the incumbent on every shared expense. That is OA's entire justification, and it holds together.

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The contract that matters is private

Glenfield Capital bought the full campus in 2021 and named Cushman & Wakefield to lease and manage it. The state carved out Building I in 2025, and this extension exists to line the public term up with the private owners' agreement. Our read: that private agreement likely has a term boundary at or near September 30, 2027. You can't bid it and you can't see it.

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No price or scope signal in the posting

The notice gives no contract value, no staffing, and no scope detail. Square footage comes from OA's facility page, not the posting. Before anyone spends an hour on this, pull MS250191001 through a public records request.

Bottom Line

Verdict and the two moves that exist.

Pass. Calendar September 30, 2027.

For residential and affordable housing managers, this is a clean pass: wrong asset class, no competitive path.

For commercial office managers with a St. Louis bench, there is one live move and one future move. The live move is a written challenge to the buyer before the October 1 start, showing you can operate under the same declarations. Missouri law requires OA to rescind a sole-source waiver once it learns another feasible source exists, so the challenge has a statutory hook. It only lands if you solve the coordination problem, which in practice means you manage, or are pursuing, the other two buildings.

The future move: no renewals means September 30, 2027 forces a decision. Position in Q1 2027, not Q3.

Portfolio Map

One campus at I-64 and Timberlake Manor Parkway. Only Building I is in scope.

State-owned, in scope Private, shared declarations

Timberlake Corporate Center

3 buildings · 351,532 SF · Chesterfield, MO

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Building I · 1390 Timberlake Manor Pkwy

State of Missouri · 116,878 SF · Contract MS250191001

State-owned

Building II · 1370 Timberlake Manor Pkwy

Private ownership · Graybar leases full building

Private

Building III · 1350 Timberlake Manor Pkwy

Private ownership · Multi-tenant

Private

Each building has a three-story parking deck. Decks, grounds, and shared systems fall under the campus declarations.

Key Dates

Ownership history, the posting, and the hard stop.

Date	Event	Status
Sep 23, 2021	Glenfield Capital buys Timberlake Corporate Center for $67M; Cushman & Wakefield named to lease and manage	Past
Jan 2025	State of Missouri buys Building I (1390) for $16.25M	Past
Sep 2, 2026	SFS STATE 0000000558SL posted by Missouri OA	Past
Before Oct 1, 2026	Last practical window to challenge the SFS designation with the buyer	Deadline
Oct 1, 2026	Extension term begins	Upcoming
Q1 2027	Awarded recommendation: position for whatever follows expiration	Upcoming
Sep 30, 2027	MS250191001 expires. No renewal options.	Upcoming

Scoring Strategy

There is no scorecard. Here is the test the state applied instead.

A single feasible source designation replaces evaluation with a written finding that only one vendor can do the work. The fight is over that finding, not over points. Below is each ground OA cites, how a challenger would answer it, and how well it holds.

OA's justification	Challenger's answer	Holds?
Cushman & Wakefield has managed the complex for several years	Tenure is not exclusivity. Any qualified office manager can take over a building.	Weak
Owners share common-area costs equally under the declarations	Cost sharing is accounting. A separate manager can bill and reconcile to the declaration formula.	Moderate
Consistent, cohesive grounds and services across the campus	Hard to answer. Split management on a shared campus means duplicate vendors and disputes over shared expenses.	Strong
Term aligned to the private owners' agreement with the contractor	Alignment favors the incumbent by design. It also sets the date the question reopens.	Strong

Who Should Bid

Who should act on this, and who should walk.

Eligibility

Registered MissouriBUYS vendor. Commercial office management capability: building engineering, janitorial and vendor oversight, common-area reconciliation. Missouri service contracts over $5,000 carry the E-Verify affidavit requirement under Section 285.530 RSMo.

Ideal challenger

A St. Louis commercial office manager that already manages, or is actively pursuing, 1350 and 1370. That firm neutralizes the coordination argument. Without the private side, you inherit the same problem that justified the sole source.

Pass

Residential, multifamily, and affordable housing managers. Wrong asset class, and the incumbent's position runs through a private contract you can't bid.

Get the Full Analysis

Executive Summary and Intelligence Brief for SFS STATE 0000000558SL.

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Executive Summary

Verdict, the challenge path, and the 2027 positioning plan.

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Intelligence Brief

Campus ownership history, incumbent position, and what a records request should pull.

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