PURE FISHING

PROJECT

Distribution Center

LOCATION

Kansas City, Missouri

SQUARE FEET

400,000

GDI Construction created a 400,000 ground up design-build warehouse distribution facility in Kansas City, Missouri for Pure Fishing in just 5 months. The building consists of one 420' x 950 ' x 32' clear height structure, including a 3,000 square foot main office and a 2,000 square foot warehouse office. Having a single location where Pure Fishing could receive all of the imported product as well as being able to consolidate their domestically made product was crucial to the client in order to be able to increase their market share.

The design build portion of this project began in March, 2008 and construction started in May, 2008. Many challenges had to be dealt with in order to meet the project completion date, including a delay in construction of 30 days due to the 30 foot fills and then 30 days of rain from the end of May through August. None-the-less, the project was successfully delivered on time October 1, 2008 for product delivery.

"The successful completion of the Pure Fishing project has truly been a Herculean effort on the part of the GDI team. Due to the client's logistics and operational needs this project incorporated a very aggressive construction schedule and as such, the end date was critical. In spite of significant soil issues and delays due to record rainfall, the original project completion date was maintained. GDI has really, once again, performed for us."

John Borkgren, the Director of Development, Central Region
First Industrial Realty Trust