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Siouxland Business Journal, August 2012
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SUMMER OF BUILDING Industrial and commercial projects keep contractors, workers busy By Dave Dreeszen
Business Journal editor
A bevy of commercial and industrial projects are giving the metro area construction industry a boost this summer. Here is a look at the status of some large-scale projects where construction workers are on site.
Dave Dreeszen, Siouxland Business Journal
A backhoe moves into position at a construction site at Ziegler Caterpillar on Aug. 21. Two construction workers are shown in front of a new addition, which is part of a $6 million of the Sioux City equipment dealership.
SABRE COMMUNICATIONS
A 192,000-square-foot plant that will fabricate support structures for electrical transmission and distribution lines is rising out of the ground on former farmland just south of Sioux Gateway Airport. Sabre Communication’s sprawling seven-building campus is being built on a 150-acre site located northwest of Southbridge Drive and 225th Street. Nelson Engineering Construction of South Sioux City is the general contractor for the Sabre factory, which will be the first tenant in Sioux City’s 400-acre Southbridge Business Park. The city beat out several cities and states around the country for Sabre’s $18 million expansion project, which will retain 214 jobs and create an additional 192 full-time positions in the initial phase. Sabre, which has already started hiring additional workers, expects to start operations at its new factory early next year. The company also will maintain its existing Murray Street facility. An additional 130 jobs
Dave Dreeszen, Siouxland Business Journal
A cement mixer truck unloads at the construction site for the new Sabre Communications plant in Sioux City’s Southbridge Business Park. The factory, which will fabricate support towers for electrical transmission and distribution lines, is scheduled to open early next future Sabre Communications plant .
would be created as part of a second phase of expansion, expected to begin a year or two after the fabrication plant is completed. Phase II would include construction of a galvanizing plant.
TITAN MACHINERY
Dave Dreeszen, Siouxland Business Journal
A bulldozer in the distance moves dirt at the future home of Titan Machinery. The dealer of Case IH and New Holland farm and construction equipment is constructing a 20,000-square-foot building site at the corner of Expedition Court and Discovery Boulevard in Sioux City’s Expedition Business Park
Titan, a dealer of Case IH and New Holland farm and construction equipment, has started grading work for a new Sioux City dealership at the corner of Expedition Court and Discovery Boulevard in the Expedition Business Park, near Sioux Gateway Airport. The 20,000-square-foot building, which will be built on a 12-acre site, will offer roomier, more convenient location than its current facility at 33952 Frelon Drive in Leeds. Once open, the new store will contain sales, rentals and service facilities. The current facility will become home to a Titan outlet store. Titan’s existing Sioux City location has added three jobs in the past four months. Once the move to the new site is completed,
another eight to 10 jobs will be added between the two Sioux City locations.
ZIEGLER CATERPILLAR
Just down the road from Titan’s site, a $6 million expansion of Ziegler Caterpillar is well underway. The dealership at 5300 Harbor Drive is increasing the size of its shop by 19,000 square feet, and its warehouse by 5,000 square feet. The project also includes a larger parking and equipment display areas. Up to 20 new jobs are expected to be completed following completion of the project, which will allow the Caterpillar dealer to better serve its western Iowa customers and improve its offerings of new and used equipment, service, parts, rental tools, and technology support for customers. The city assisted the expansion by vacating and turning over to the company two acres of unused rightof-way that lies between Ziegler’s existing facility in the Bridgeport Industrial Park and an equipment