Latest Alston Construction News and Achievements
Delivering an Innovative, High-Performance Logistics Facility
Project Archer | Hampton, Georgia Project Archer marks a major achievement for Alston Construction: the successful delivery of a 1.4 million square-foot, first-of-its-kind logistics hub for a confidential client in Henry County, Georgia. Built under a fast-paced design-build model, this project challenged Alston to translate an evolving client vision into a fully functional and high-performance [...]
A Cut Above: How Alston Construction Delivered a State-of-the-Art Expansion for Meats by Linz
Meats by Linz | Hammond, Indiana For over five decades, Meats by Linz has built a reputation as one of the most respected names in premium meats, supplying the finest cuts to top-tier steakhouses, retailers, and food distributors across the country. As their business grew, so did the complexity of their operations. Their original processing, [...]
Transforming & Revitalizing Columbus
Columbus Castings | Columbus, Ohio The Columbus Castings project in Columbus, Ohio, involves constructing three new speculative buildings near downtown on the site of an old iron foundry. This project required extensive site remediation and renovation, including removing steel, concrete, and railroad infrastructure. It is part of a broader revitalization effort to rejuvenate areas in [...]
New Standards in Large Scale Construction
Project Channel | Houston, Texas Project Channel is an expansive 1,392,587 square foot building, including a 401,278 square foot mezzanine, six outbuildings, and various site improvements. This state-of-the-art facility is intended for use by a large national retailer, primarily for storage, warehousing, distribution of goods, and administrative office space. The building reaches a height of [...]
LEED Platinum and Well Gold Project
Kuehne + Nagel Logistic Center | Piscataway, New Jersey When Alston Construction completed the Rockefeller Group Logistics Center in Piscataway, New Jersey, the transformation of a former brownfield site into a job center with over 1,500 permanent employees was already a win for the community and the environment. However, that was just the beginning. What [...]
Making the Perfect Bedding Facility
Brooklyn Bedding | Glendale, Arizona When mattress-in-a-box pioneer Brooklyn Bedding sought to create a facility that could accommodate its explosive growth, they engaged Alston Construction to build a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. The new 650,000-square-foot building would need to accommodate over 100 pieces of complex manufacturing equipment, chemical storage and processing, critical power demands, and challenging [...]
Collaborating to Exceed Project and Client Foundations
Procter & Gamble (Project Heartland) | Morris, Illinois Located in Morris, Illinois, roughly 60 miles southwest of Chicago, Project Heartland is one of the largest distribution centers in the region. Alston Construction collaborated with Procter & Gamble on the new 1.3 million SF facility. Environmental Sustainability is one of the key pillars to Procter & [...]
Creating Predictability & Quality in the Office Market
Southland Headquarters | Grapevine, Texas When Southland Holdings began searching for a new location for their rapidly growing personnel, Alston Construction was currently building one of their new warehouse facilities nearby. With the current success of the warehouse facility, Alston Construction was contracted to design and build the new corporate headquarters in Grapevine, Texas. With [...]
Right on Time
Restaurant Depot | Pasadena, Texas Restaurant Depot, a 59,565 SF pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) with freezer/cooler space, is the first of a future 90+ acre industrial development in Pasadena, Texas. Because of this, Alston Construction was not only contracted to construct Restaurant Depot but to develop much of the site, and when we broke ground, [...]
Overcoming the Unexpected
Speculative 9/IG Design Group | Byhalia, Mississippi The Speculative 9/IG Design Group project is located in the Global Gateway Logistics (GGLC) campus. GGLC is an industrial park on a 1,500-acre site that straddles the Mississippi-Tennessee border. The initial plan was to develop a 554,000 square foot distribution facility for Panattoni Development and CBRE. We broke [...]
Strategic Planning Under a Tight Timeline
Shuffle Masters | Las Vegas, Nevada The project is a 129,000 SF, tilt up construction facility, with a 90,000 SF footprint and a 39,000 SF mezzanine with high end glass and glazing finishes. The 76,000 SF Interior build-out was also high with 40,000 SFof warehouse improvements. Shufflemasters is located on approximately 9.5 acres in the [...]
Staying Flexible & Maximize Efficiency
Corelle Brands | Byhalia, Mississippi The Global Gateway Logistics (GGLC) campus in Byhalia, MS and Colliervile, TN is a 1,500 acre industrial park which splits the state lines. Companies like Volvo, TBC, Niagra and McCormick have or are constructing buildings in this massive park. In 2019, Corelle Brands moved all manufacturing operations from California to [...]
Delivering on a Complicated Site Through Precision and Planning
DVB7 Delivery Station | Miami, FL The development of Project DVB7 posed a unique challenge to the Alston Construction team in Florida. While we have built many similar structures to Project DVB7, we have never had to build in an area quite like North Miami before. This site’s location came with many hurdles that we [...]
Building Sustainably Near the Sammarish River
The Reserve at Woodinville | Woodinville, Washington The Reserve at Woodinville is a 200,000 SF business park located in the heart of Woodinville wine country. It is the first speculative industrial project delivered in the city in more than 20 years. The design achieves a functional industrial business park, while respecting the city’s underlying architectural [...]
Collaborative Planning Processes
FedEx Ground | Henderson, Nevada FedEx Ground is a 293,870 SF Build to suit facility, tilt-wall construction and hybrid wood roof for main facility. The project is equipped with a 230 KW back up generator for computer room and egress lighting. The project features HVLS fans in distribution area, high speed roll up doors for [...]
Bringing Transportation to Houston
UPS Willowbrook | Houston, Texas The new UPS facility in greater Houston area expands UPS network to better serve customers in one of the nation’s ten fastest growing cities. Its location provides strategic transportation network access to air, rail, major interstate highway corridors, cross-border and commercial cargo shipping lanes. Now operating at full capacity, the [...]
Leveraging Experience to Drive Cold Storage Success
Lineage Logistics Facility | Wilmington, Illinois When Alston Construction agreed to build a cold storage facility in Wilmington, Illinois for long-time client CDC (now Lineage Logistics), the team in charge did not know much about building freezer buildings. They were familiar with the industrial park, having built many of its structures. And they knew the [...]
Boosting Affordable Housing in Chicago with Strategic Planning
John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments | Chicago, Illinois The John Pennycuff Memorial Apartments project is a 7-story affordable housing multifamily tower. The project’s roots are planted in a corridor near Logan Square of Chicago, IL where gentrification picked up speed and gradually started pushing out low income families, and the Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation, the not-for-profit [...]
Adapting to Change
Park 249 & HOU7 | Houston, Texas Alston Construction is committed to improving the construction experience for our clients, based on what we’ve learned as well was what we continue to learn. When we’re involved early and throughout construction, we make sure what we deliver aligns with what our owners expect. Park 249 and HOU7 [...]
Call Center Evolution in the Midwest
Medline Call Center | Dubuque, IA No longer marked by uniform rows of cubicles, call centers have become more personalized and employee-centric than ever, giving people a more comfortable place to spend working hours. Medline opened a 66,000-square-foot facility in 2009 where it quickly grew to more than 450 employees. Planning for an additional 100 [...]
Healthcare Excellence in Central Kentucky
CHI Saint Joseph Health | Winchester, Kentucky Optimizing healthcare facilities nationwide is part of NexCore Group, a national healthcare developer, and Catholic Health Initiatives’ (CHI), a healthcare/hospital system, continuing program. As the two groups embarked on the journey to deliver innovative and modern healthcare facilities, Alston Construction assembled two project teams to navigate the challenges [...]
Delivering the Impossible Ahead of Schedule
Project Tusk | Reno, Nevada In response to soaring demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon fast-tracked a new 146,500 SF lastmile delivery center in Reno, Nevada in May of 2020. Just three weeks after engaging an architect and with tenants still occupying the site, Amazon asked Alston to mobilize and build the new facility from [...]
A New Facility 2 Months Ahead of Schedule
Tennessee Soft Drink Production Company | West Memphis, Arkansas In the fall of 2019, Tennessee Soft Drink Production Company and Alston Construction broke ground on a 204,616 square foot expansion of their existing facility located in West Memphis, Arkansas. The company needed to consolidate its two area production facilities because their operation had outgrown the [...]
Building For A Large National Fashion Retailer
Tory Burch | McDonough, Georgia Alston converted a 752,000 SF shell warehouse into a fully conditioned order fulfillment center for one of the nations largest fashion retailers, on a very tight budget and in only 6 months. The warehouse was air conditioned via 29 roof top units set by helicopter, the roof system upgraded to [...]
No Detail Too Small
Crystal Geyser Expansion | Calistoga, California Napa Valley may be known for wine, but it’s also the home of Crystal Geyser Water Company, a producer of bottled sparkling mineral water sourced in the US. Crystal Geyser needed more space—150,000 square feet, to be exact—for its bottling plant in Calistoga, California. The warehouse expansion not only [...]
Helping to Manufacture Quality
Helping to Manufacture Quality Norcross, Georgia When OFS approached Alston Construction in 2017 with plans to build a new optical fiber manufacturing expansion in Norcross, Georgia, we knew our shared commitments to safety, precision, and innovation would make for a promising partnership. A world leader in fiber optic solutions, the OFS expansion needed to be [...]
