There’s a whole lot of shakin’ going on along Providence Road from Nebraska Avenue to Interstate 70, where local car dealer Justin Perry plans to build a new showroom and service center for his Perry Nissan dealership and a "state-of-the-art" collision repair center.

Here’s how it all shakes out: Perry Nissan, 1500 N. Garth Ave., will relocate this spring to a snappy new complex on a four-acre site off Providence Road between Nebraska Avenue and Interstate 70. The vacated Perry Nissan space will then be used as additional elbowroom for nearby Perry Chevrolet.

Site preparation is under way at the new location for a planned two-level, 23,800-square-foot showroom and service facility that features the latest design from Nissan with red signs, silver tiles and lots of glass. The complex will include a sales lot expected to carry an inventory of up to 200 new and used cars, he said.

A contractor has not yet been selected for the building project, Perry said.

Perry owns the site through FBN Co. LLC, and he co-owns an adjacent strip of land just north of the sprouting showroom with local restaurateur Dennis Harper. Perry recently cut a deal to buy Harper’s interest in the land, which they own through Perry & Harper Leasing Co.

Perry also has inked an agreement to purchase a 1.8-acre parcel at 1407 N. Providence from Stephen and Beatrice Smith. The property, previously occupied by Perry Legend Collision Repair Center, is on the north side of Nebraska Avenue between Providence Road and Illinois Avenue.

Little Dixie Construction got the job to raze the eastern two-thirds of the 37,000-square-foot vacant building on the property to make more room for the upcoming Nissan car lot. The remaining 9,500-square-foot structure will be transformed into a high-tech auto-painting facility. Paint booths will be shipped from Italy and feature the latest computerized paint mixing technology and environmental controls.

Across the street on the south side of Nebraska Avenue, Perry plans the 15,000-square-foot Collision Center of Columbia. It’s expected to open this fall on a half-acre site he owns through the Justin M. Perry Trust.

Little Dixie Construction is the contractor for the collision center, which will sport a stone-and-glass look and feature 15 repair bays with the latest equipment, high-efficiency preparation stations and other computerized car repair systems. Brian Spillars, a 20-year Perry employee, has been tapped to manage the operation.

OFF WE GO…

Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group this week released flight schedules for its U.S. Airways Express service at Columbia Regional Airport slated to start Oct. 5.

St. Louis-bound weekday flights leave at 6:35 a.m. and 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City-bound weekday flights leave at 9 a.m. and 5:20 p.m.

Outbound morning flights don’t operate on Sunday, and the afternoon flights don’t operate on Saturday.

Flights arrive from St. Louis at 8:45 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 5:05 p.m. Sunday through Friday.

Flights arrive from Kansas City at 3:10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday.

Fares are $59 each way plus taxes and fees.

DOWNTOWN SHUFFLE

The Kroenke Group has scored tenants for two 1,000-square-foot leaseholds in its building at Ninth and Walnut streets, spokesman Jim Alabach said. The leases begin next Friday.

Butterfly Tattoo, owned by Amanda Vander Tuig, will relocate from 1020 E. Broadway to 36 N. Ninth St. The specialty gift shop opened in late 2004 and sells a variety of quirky merchandise. The store name comes from a tattoo that Vander Tuig has, and it symbolizes things that are permanent.

The Arsenic Leopard, owned by Lisa Suits, will relocate from 1031 E. Walnut to 32 N. Ninth St. The store, opened in late 2003, sells a variety of unique local and global art and craft items, including clothing, jewelry, rugs and more.

QUICKIES

Anytime Fitness, a nationwide chain of 24-hour fitness clubs based in West St. Paul, Minn., plans to open franchised outlets in the Liberty Square development off Clark Lane and at The Village of Cherry Hill at Chapel Hill Road and Scott Boulevard, according to a company news release. … MU has leased 67 acres at the South Farm complex off Highway 63 to the Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute in a 50-year deal for $1. The plant education and research organization is the brainchild of executive director Rob Myers. … St. Louis-based Brinkmann Construction recently completed work on the $30 million 217,000-square-foot Fairview Marketplace, home to one of the first red-brick Wal-Mart Supercenters in Missouri. The complex, developed by THF Realty and Maly Commercial Realty, is off West Broadway across from Hy-Vee. … Homewood, Ill.-based ADS Logistics LLC recently purchased Columbia freight storage and distribution companies Columbia Transload Inc. and Show-Me Transportation from brothers Chad and Clay Hager, who could not be reached for comment. … Street Talk readers have noticed bulldozing on a 20-acre parcel along Fairview Road across from the Columbia Mall, and they want to know what’s up. The city is working to lay underground wires, said John Gordon, agent for property owner Rock Ivy LLP and Thomas Kyle Gordon Trust. The land is for sale, he said. ... Missouri’s unemployment rate of 4.7 percent in July remained unchanged from June, according to a news release from the state Department of Economic Development. The average nationwide unemployment rate is 4.8 percent, the report said.