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Meridian Design Build Completes Cedar Rapids Distribution Center
Meridian Design Build recently completed construction on a 479,000-square-foot package sortation and distribution center for developer Scannell Properties on a 79-acre site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The new facility is located at 1035 Commerce Park Drive SW and will be FedEx Ground’s new automated package in a move that will bring a $108.6 million warehouse and distribution center and more than 480 jobs to southwest Cedar Rapids.
The new building includes 190 loading docks, 12 drive-in doors, 168 interior van loading positions, and 31,977 SF of office space. Significant site improvements were completed to accommodate a 660-car parking lot, 189 van staging spaces, 130 tractor parking and a 330-stall trailer storage yard.
Meridian completed the project on a design/build basis, with Cornerstone Architects providing architectural design services and Manhard Consulting handling the civil engineering design. The property is conveniently located just nine minutes from the Eastern Iowa Airport.
