Commercial and Industrial Construction Activity Picks Up

Construction activity for the City of Fairfield picked up in the first quarter of 2009 with the issuance of permits for three major projects:

Kiewit Construction is building a 33,400 square foot, two-story, office building at 4650 Business Center Drive. The $5,134,000 project is located on the north side of Business Center Drive across from the Copart corporate office.

Meyer Cookware at 2100 Meyer Way is adding a state of the art storage racking system. The $25,560,000 project consists of an expansion to their existing facility with a 165,000 square foot building equipped with an Automated Storage Retrieval System (ASRS). The 100’ ASRS expansion will add an additional 70,000 pallets of storage to the existing distribution center and will accommodate
projected company growth for the next 10 years. Future phases of expansion will include a 133,500 square foot distribution/ office building and a 210,000 square foot, multi-story office complex and parking structure.

Wal-Mart will begin constructing its planned Supercenter at 2701 North Texas Street. The 188,479 square foot, $10,761,000 project will include the main store, vision center, hair care salon, bank, McDonald’s and an outdoor garden center. The project extends from Hawthorn Drive, south to Atlantic Avenue on the west side of North Texas Street. All of the existing buildings, except the Liberty Christian Church adjacent to Atlantic Avenue, will be demolished to make way for the new Supercenter.

For more information regarding these projects, contact Erin Beavers at 428-7461.