The facility features a structural steel frame on shallow foundations, an extensive refrigeration system serving cold storage areas with temperatures ranging from -20°F to 55°F, more than 100,000 sf of dry goods storage, a high-tech computer room, and 50,000 sf of high-end office space. The scope of work also included an on-site truck maintenance facility with fuel dispensing equipment and a guardhouse. The facility includes space for ice cream storage, an isolated automated rack system, a battery charging area, and an explosion-resistant equipment room. Our team self-performed a portion of the work and managed all phases of design and construction.

SYSCO's new regional distribution and warehouse facility houses 25' high stacks of supplies such as fresh produce, frozen foods and paper products, and have a “total installed cost” of $55 million. The facility serves most of North Carolina east of Greensboro, as well as South Carolina north of Myrtle Beach.

Concurrent with completing this project, the BE&K Building Group was awarded a construction assignment from SYSCO Food Services of Columbia, South Carolina. The South Carolina project, located in Columbia, consists of a multifaceted addition to an existing food distribution center designed and constructed by our firm (completed in 2002). Our firm completed a similar design-build assignment for SYSCO in 2001 — a 300,000 sf distribution facility in Suffolk, Virginia.