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BELLEVILLE, ILL. — IMPACT Strategies will oversee the construction of a new $1.1 million addition to an existing manufacturing facility in Belleville. Chelar Tool & Die Inc. is expanding its headquarters with a 12,000-square-foot addition to its existing manufacturing shop. Construction began in mid-October and is scheduled for completion in February 2015. IMPACT Strategies is building a single-story, pre-engineered metal building with equipment used for making progressive and non-progressive metal stamping dies, metal stampings, specialty precision machinery and Blanchard grinding. Fairview Heights, Ill.-based EWR Associates Inc. is providing architectural services for the project.